Time Travel by Laura-B-R on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

The ivy-covered ruins of a former factory in Hammer an area of Nuremberg.
There was a mill in Hammer as early as 1372.
The settlement was destroyed in the Second Margrave War in 1552.
Kanler family rebuilt the hammer mill as a wire drawing mill and surrounded the area with a wall. In 1681 in Hammer stood a manor house, workers' dwellings, a school, an inn, stables and economic buildings, a grist mill, an annealing hut and a kiln.
In 1718 the company Johann Volkamer & Co. took over the brass works.
From 1796 Hammer was under the administration of Prussia.
After the incorporation of Franconia, in 1806, into the Kingdom of Bavaria, the "Messing- und Lahngoldwerk Hammer" was the largest factory in the Nuremberg region.
In 1815 a rolling mill was built and from 1871 it was operated by turbines. In 1894, the hammers were replaced by rolling mills. A separate power grid was built to supply electricity to the villages east of Hammer.
The bombing raids during the Second World War did not spare the small factory estate. Plans submitted for reconstruction were rejected.
In 1958, the factory was finally shut down and sold.
In 1977, Hammer was listed as an industrial-historical ensemble.