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Favrbjerg Forge...
The blacksmiths were hired by the community of the village and he had a permanent annualy wages and provisions. He should work for the farmers shoeing horses, rounding wagon wheels, repairing tools, extracting teeth, among other things, but all the new things had to be paid. From 1920 the farmer had to pay the bill.
The building is partly a reestablishment of Faurbjerg Forge, which was originally situated at Faurbjerg in Tuse Næs. The granite boulder walls are the originals from 1869, when Niels Anderson cut the stones for Faurbjerg Forge. The stones have a total weight of 90 tons. The inventory is re-established in copy based on old drawings and descriptions because the original forge was destroyed in a fire in 1928.
In the forge traditional forging such as shoeing horses, rounding wagons wheels and repairing tools from the state smallholding among others are done. In front of the building there is a draw well and old millstones, used for rounding wagon wheels as well as a stone trough used for cooling down the wheels.
The blacksmith knew more than this. He was regarded as a link between God and the Devil and a bit of a magician, because he could turn a lump of iron into something useful with the help of fire, water and a dancing sledge hammer.
Hear the blacksmith tell about his work and the superstitions attached to the blacksmith in the old days. |