Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz is an historic hammer mill in

Dorfchemnitz Dorfchemnitz is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen, in Saxony, Germany. Famous people born in Dorfchemnitz * Samuel von Pufendorf (1632 – 1694), German jurist and political philosopher * Frieder Lippmann (born 3 September 1936), G ...

in the Ore Mountains of Germany. The mill is an important witness to proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains. Of the once-numerous hammer mills only three others remain working in Saxony apart from the Frohnauer Hammer: the

Frohnauer Hammer Mill The Frohnauer Hammer is an historic hammer mill in Frohnau, a village in the municipality of Annaberg-Buchholz in the Ore Mountains of southeast Germany. The mill is an important witness to proto-industrial development in the Ore Mountains. O ...

, the Grünthal Copper Hammer Mill and the

Freibergsdorf Hammer Mill The Freibergsdorf Hammer Mill (german: Freibergsdorfer Hammer) is an old hammer works that was used for metalworking in the village of Freibergsdorf in the German Ore Mountains. The site represents an important witness to proto-industrial devel ...

. The mill, which is situated on the ''Chemnitzbach'' stream, has been a technology museum since 1969 which, in addition to the actual hammer mill, also has a local history room.

Sources

* Franz Eisel: ''Sachsens Museen & Schauanlagen des Berg- und Hüttenwesens.'' Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2007, * Benno Reichel: ''Die Entwicklung des Hammerwerkes Dorfchemnitz im Kreis Brand-Erbisdorf.'' in: Sächsische Heimatblätter, Heft 6/1958, S. 354–362 * Wolfgang Schmidt, Wilfried Theile: ''Denkmale der Produktions- und Verkehrsgeschichte. Teil 1.'' VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1989, * Rudolf Schumann: ''Der Eisenhammer zu Dorfchemnitz und die Ölmühle zu Friedebach. Zwei alte Arbeitsstätten im östlichen Erzgebirge.'' in: Mitteilungen des Landesvereins Sächsischer Heimatschutz, Bd. XXIX, Heft 1-4/1940, Dresden 1940, S. 43–53

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Informationen zum Eisenhammer Dorfchemnitz
Museums in the Ore Mountains Museums in Saxony

Museums established in 1969 Technology museums in Germany {{Saxony-struct-stub