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.