Standing tall and forlorn
The unusual and emblematic tour-marteau or hammer tower, once used for coal extraction in
the mining community of Folschviller in the Moselle, was erected in 1948 and stands 58 meters high.
In use until 1979, it was saved from demolition and registered as an historical monument in 1992.
A unique--and today ironizing sculptural--example of French industrial patrimony in Lorraine.
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