Beilfels and iron ore
Judging by the findings of so-called racing furnaces (the racing furnace is a primitive clay or stone furnace for extracting iron from iron ore) and iron objects in the local area, iron ore was processed here even before the turn of the century. Iron ores - created from fresh water deposits - occur at Schwarzenbacltr. The town of Eisen also rightly bears its name: here ores of the “Siegerland” type occur close to the surface. Finally, another type of iron ore was temporarily extracted from Buhlenberg. Below the “Beilfels” lookout point, the Erzweg runs between the northern Saarland and the village of Abentheuer, through which the Traun flows. Here on the Übergarg from the slate mountains to the lower foreland, the power of the water was developed by the Hammer and Hüttengesellschaft Stumm and, most recently, by the company v. Böcking used for ore processing. Ore smelting has been carried out since ancient times with the help of charcoal, which was produced in charcoal piles in the forests of the Hunsrück until the 19th century. Charcoal was also produced in the town of Brücken until the post-war period by DEGUSSA on an industrial scale. After all, up into the 20th century, “Hujets Sawmill” produced wood products for local needs. Hydropower was also used to operate a fulling mill (wool processing). To this day, wood is still sawn with the power of the water on the Traun and recently also regenerative energy is generated. Source: Text information board