Hello Mum,
today we went to an old but interesting place in Remscheid: The Steffenshammer, a very old smithy that is now a little Museum and still funcionable today and shows the visitor, how the people in the Bergisch Land formed irontools with using water as energy.
The place is called Clemenshammer, but the old smithy is called Steffenshammer
Behind me You can see a huge wheel for transmission
This is the entrance to the little half-timbered house and until the 1930s a widow with 6 children lived.
The house is very very small, you can see it at the windows.
This is the entrance
Behind me are the narrow stairs up to the first floor but this is closed for public
Here in the main room the association that promotes the Clemenshammer, shows what tools the smithy produced in the old times and wich tools they needed and how hard and difficult the circumstances of living and working were in the so called "good old times...
And this is the smithy itself
Lets have a look inside
Here I am on a funny chair, it hangs from the ceiling.
That has the reason that the smith can move for and back when the iron gets longer and longer during the process of smithering
There You can see the hammer powerd by waterenergie and the anvil, where the sun shines through. It was very dark there, only the light from outside and the fire in the oven lightend the room
Lets have a look outside again and see how the water turns the huge wheel
Huiii. I like the water that sprinkled very powerful, what an energy, what a noise it makes...
In the garden was a small summer-party and they showed how to smith
And it was funny to see how they bake wafels here
Hmm, yummie, of course we had one
There was a wheel of fortune
I won a little sheep that was happy to join out troops
And a dixie-band played nice music
We were allowed to sit in the shadow of the big bass-tuba
Nice summerparty and we recreated a little moment sitting on this bank
Then we were invited to visit an astonishing park: The "Unicat of Gardens"
The man told us that is the official smallest park
What a nice and interesting place this was
The last for today shows a typical Bergisch House with ist green shutters
Ähh..By the way Mom..its for sale...wouldn´t You like the idea of living in the Bergisch Land??
Love and greeting and many hugs
Yours Oink