Thießen () is a village and a former municipality in the district of Wittenberg,

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( ; ) is a States of Germany, state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.17 million inhabitants, making it the List of German states ...

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. Since 1 September 2010, it is part of the town Coswig.

Copper hammer mill

Thießen copper

hammer mill A hammer mill, hammer forge or hammer works was a workshop in the pre-industrial era that was typically used to manufacture semi-finished, wrought iron products or, sometimes, finished agricultural or mining tools, or military weapons. The featur ...

(''Kupferhammer Thießen'') is an industrial monument and the only copper hammer mill in

. It lies in a park, roughly 1 hectare in area. The Rossel stream, which flows through the park, is impounded above the mill into a hammer pond, part of which drains freely, but part of which is used to drive the

water wheel A water wheel is a machine for converting the kinetic energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a large wheel (usually constructed from wood or metal), with numerous b ...

s of the mill.

References

Former municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt Coswig, Saxony-Anhalt {{Wittenberg-geo-stub