Grafenweiher
The Grafenweiher is a pond located on the common of Sturzelbronn, in the department of the the Moselle.
The monks of the Abbaye of Sturzelbronn have vast forests whose products are sold with difficulty. To be able to benefit from this wood, they launch out in the construction of forging mills and, in 1764, they obtain Stanislas Leszczyński, duke of Lorraine, the authorization to build forging mills, furnace and trip hammer S near the pond.
The monks dig an output channel of water through the rock to make actuate a wheel. Most titanic of their installations remains nevertheless a Digue of water reserve (400 meters of length, 20 meters broad and 4 meters height).
The Schwarzbach takes its source there before moving towards the Alsatian village of Dambach.
- official site of the commune of Dambach-Neunhoffen