The third project that we support as a sponsoring member is the industrial museum “Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs” in our direct neighborhood. This museum, which is supervised by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland, shows visitors how scissors were forged in the 19th and partly still in the 20th century. In the 19th century, Solingen was considered the “workshop for the world”.
School classes in particular take up the offer to experience live how the large drop hammer forges the scissors blank. With a loud roar, the red-hot piece of steel is hammered into shape. Where can you still marvel at this nowadays?
Other, long forgotten, machines and devices are also on display, without which production would not have been possible in the past. For example, the old boiler and the 250 hp motor to drive all the machines by belts. And the great thing is that these machines also run and the children can hear the hissing and humming, as well as feel the vibrations and heat.
Gesenkschmiede Hendrichs