Hendrich's Drop Forge

The Hendrich's Drop Forge part of the LVR Industriemuseum is a museum in Solingen (German pronunciation: [ˈzoːlɪŋən]), a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

External conditions were ideal as there were limitless supplies of iron ore from the hills while the surrounding forests provided enough fuel to keep the fires burning.

The LVR Industrial Museum took over the complete site including the buildings, technical equipment and nine members of staff.

[1] The heavy, block-like forging dies were responsible for this: precision tools made of top quality steel into which the hollow outline of a scissor blade had been carved.

The hammer only needed to be dropped a maximum of four times to forge a scissor blade from a narrow slab of steel.