Teschow Manor Smithy

General information

The Teschow manor smithy continued to serve as a blacksmith's shop until the early 1990s, albeit only rarely. Rudolf Neumann, who had already taken over the trade from his father, was the last farrier. Blacksmiths and wheelwrights were usually the only trained agricultural craftsmen on the estate in the past. The tools and machines needed for farming had to be repaired. The blacksmith also made smaller tools.  But the most important thing was shoeing, because most of the field work was done with horse teams.

The annual village festival "Ascension to Teschow" and the museum baking days revive the tradition of the blacksmith's craft.

Then the fire is lit with forge coal. Uli Manzke, a master blacksmith of many years' standing, shows visitors how an iron nail is formed on the anvil using fire, a forge hammer and pliers, and then cooled and hardened in the cold water of a bucket. Chain links have also been manufactured.

A curiosity is a big wooden pike with a bell around its neck. It represents the legendary "Teterow pike", for whose still incomplete scale, always new forging nails are hammered into the pike as "pike scales". Visitors are also allowed to lend a hand for a small fee.