Fucina de le Broche (Nails oven)

Fucina de le Broche (Nails oven) In the seventeenth century in Valle di Ledro you begin to establish the ironworks and soon grow strongly by replacing much of the work in the fields and pastures, being economically better

Fucina de le Broche (Nails oven or ironworks) involves many people, not only those who melts the metal or the works but, for example, even those who procures coal for the ovens and who conveys the material finished this activity although it has grown rapidly, undergoes a decline with the arrival of Napoleon’s troops and the subsequent passage of the Valley under Austrian , the decline continues until the activity ceased in the mid-nineteenth century, only a few remain alive furnaces for the production of agricultural tools and nails. After 1866 in the Valley of the workers come from Brescia and Bergamo, with the best techniques and reactivate the disused ironworks thus starting a new production of pitchers for the shoes, the nails were used to protect the sole which was usually made ̷̷of wood and in the best cases in leather. This new production season still develops mainly in Molina and Pré, but suffered a first block due to the outbreak of the First World War and the call to arms of the workers coming but because of the failure pitchers for the shoes of the soldiers, you decide to call them back from the front and make them work in factories far from the war zone until the end of the same. With the advent of rubber soles has no end pitchers in the history of iron and are then closed all the forges, the Forge of the Broche Molina is an initiative taken by the municipality to keep the memory of an activity that has been so important to the Valley, setting up a complete laboratory oven and tools of the time, recalling the work of chiodaioli time of booking.