Hohenhof

No drive without water! This also applies to the Sauerland pre- and early industrial technology. Whether grain or fulling mill, grinding mill or wire drawing plant, smelting works or hammer mill – the location is always: in the valley, by the water! The water wheels also turn in the open-air museum in Mäckingerbachtal. This is what mechanical work looked like before the Ruhr coal replaced water power …

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My house in Essen is wonderfully located, but here in the east of Hagen there are equally fine building sites for people who have made it big. Doers and patrons with business acumen, expertise and visions of how to combine the useful with the beautiful.

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You are the Lord of the Three Rings, Alfred. And now the three towers as well? Best distributed around Hagen, one on each hill. Looking down into the valley, you can see the proud city on the Volme with all its factories and smokestacks. And of course the main train station, where hissing locomotives let off steam. Is that your vision, Alfred?

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