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Old Copper Furnace

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Old Copper Furnace

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Old Copper Furnace

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

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Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Silke mit Yuna & Yomi

March 23, 2020

You have to "spink" a bit through the fence, then you see an old, well-preserved copper furnace.

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1967Bike-Didi

December 23, 2021

In the past, this facility was referred to as the Reitwerk. This was a name from the Middle Ages and translated means that this was an iron production site. Here, smelters and hammer operations were combined.
The earliest were in the Stolberg area in the 14th century. mentioned. Processing of the metals was done via the Vichtbach and thus the hammer mills.
Energy was made from the surrounding wood of the forests or from the charcoal obtained from it.
These systems here were called Platenhammer & Neuenhammer.

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Sebastian Wandel

January 31, 2021

A very beautiful and very well preserved piece of contemporary history.

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Elevation 240 m

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Old Copper Furnace

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