Visit of the Conservatory of Metallurgy

Name: Visita al Conservatorio de la Metalurgia
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Usine du bas - Fonderie de Dommartin-le-Franc

You can freely visit a conservatory of the arts of metallurgy: 600 artistic models, fire arts collections and foundry and forge machines are presented in an ancie…

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

Aspm

You can freely visit a conservatory of the arts of metallurgy: are presented 600 artistic models, collections arts of fire and foundry and forge machines in a former factory founded in the thirteenth century.
Self-guided tour.

About the location

Usine du bas - Fonderie de Dommartin-le-Franc

13 rue Chanlaire, 52110 Dommartin-le-Franc

Haute-Marne
Grand Est

The old(former) factory, thought factory of bottom(stocking), of Dommartin-le-Franc scoops(draws) out its origin in the 13th century. The first mention(distinction) of his owner, Ferry II de Lorraine, date of 1459\. In 1773, she(it) is a matter of her(its) ruins by Arnould, François cousin de Châtillon who builds there a blast furnace vestiges and hall(market) of which are still visible. The factory will stay in the family Châtillon which will develop it until 1983 and produce, in the 19th and 20th centuries of the cooks(cookers), stoves(frying pans) and some ornamental cast iron. ASPM acquired(bought back) it in 1994 and presents to it an academy of arts of metallurgy in three sections(shutters): the cast iron of art with the important fund(collection) of models Ferry-Capitain and about 800 lithographic stones; the machines of smithy and of foundry; arts of the fire(light). The fund(collection) of models is called "paradise" by the foundry owners, because it includes a lot of religious models.