Favrbjerg Forge...

A Swedish stonemason, Niels Anderson, living in Plejerup, cut the stones for Favrbjerg Forge. The stones have a total weight of 90 tons. In the years after the war in 1864, it was very common to build with granite boulder on Tuse Næs as well as other places in Denmark, where there were many large stones.

The Building

The building is partly a reestablishment of Favrbjerg Forge, which was originally situated at Favrbjerg on Tuse Næs. The granite boulder walls are the originals from 1869. The granite boulders walls were built using Jurassic chalk. The brick wall at the house ends as well as the inventory is re-established in copy based on old drawings and descriptions, because the original forge was destroyed in a fire. In the forge, traditional forging such as shoeing horses, rounding wagon wheels and repairing tools from the state smallholding among others.

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. Experience the clinging sound from the iron, when the blacksmith swings the hammer, see the beautiful red-hot sparks fly, while the blacksmith talks about his work and the superstitions attached to the blacksmith in old times.