European Heritage Day at the Stahlgiesserei SH, September 11, 2021

This year's Heritage Day was held on a beautiful late summer day at the former GF steel foundry in Schaffhausen - an industrial monument of national importance. Under the direction of Schaffhausen's Denkmalpflege department, the transformation of the monumental halls into a new city district was presented to around 500 visitors over the course of the day. 

The Iron Library's pop up exhibition "Made in SH – Grossstahlguss im Mühlental von 1877 bis 1992" presented this architectural and industrial history to enthusiastic guests through information placards, archival films, photomontages and the architectural model from the site's 1958 extension work. The stand was consistently well visited throughout the day, drawing groups who marveled at the enormity of the large castings and the scale of the building projects. The residents of the new homes, former foundry workers and witnesses to the site's past provided stories about the foundry while it was still in operation.

We would like to thank Denkmalpflege Schaffhausen for their organization of the event and in particular those visitors who stopped by with their stories, which gave a special personal dimension to the history on show.