in the mid-18th century, in the area of today's sporting ground, a hammer mill was built. the building of a railway in the years 1850 to 1854 had a very positive effect on the community's industrial development. with the railway station, an important transport link with aschaffenburg and the whole lower main was created. in the course of time, the ironworks became an integrated industry in which both the mining and the processing were done, yielding a finished product.