Eisenhammer Weida

The iron hammer forge was built using an available weir which was being used to irrigate the sheep pastures of Liebsdorf.

In order to make better use of the water power, the building was dug into the earth, rather like a cellar.

In earlier times, the mill made tools and components for other mills, as well as hammers, wagon parts, metal tyres, fittings, anvils, surface plates, wagon axles and – usually in summer when the water level was low – horseshoe nails.

The bell clappers made here were well known far beyond Weida; several are supposed to have weighed four hundredweight.

With the aid of monument conservation the following work was carried out: renewal of the roofing and roof truss, restoration of the mill ditch and rebuilding of two weirs as well as the restoration of the east wall.