Stamp point 179 / IV. Friedrichshammer

The IV. Friedrichshammer is located in the Selke valley between Mägdesprung and the scout center.

Under Prince Friedrich von Anhalt-Harzgerode, an iron­works was built in 1646 and four ham­mer mills were estab­lished along the Selke: Friedrichsham­mer I to IV. The set­tle­ments found­ed at these four loca­tions of the for­mer ham­mer mills are still pre­served today and are known as Ham­mer 1 to 4.

In 2010, the Klock fam­i­ly built a for­est inn in an old barn at IV. Ham­mer, which was built in 1857 from local slate. The fam­i­ly-run estab­lish­ment offers a café with a café gar­den, a restau­rant with veg­e­tar­i­an and veg­an dish­es, a bak­ery, vaca­tion apart­ments and rooms. 

In Mägde­sprung, the “Carl­swerk” dom­i­nates the street entrance to the Selke val­ley as a sin­gle build­ing. The three-storey fac­to­ry build­ing of the for­mer Mägde­sprung iron­works is a tes­ti­mo­ny to indus­tri­al cul­ture and rep­re­sen­ta­tive indus­tri­al archi­tec­ture. The fac­to­ry build­ing was erect­ed in 1865 for the man­u­fac­ture of spe­cial met­al­work­ing and wood­work­ing machin­ery with a focus on “sawmill con­struc­tion” along­side the old­er indus­tri­al sec­tion of the Carl­swerk, which had exist­ed since 1827. 

From there, fol­low the well-sign­post­ed Selke­tal­stieg trail through the roman­tic Selke­tal val­ley, past the “Her­zog-Alex­is-Erb­stollen” to the IV Hammer.