Messer (weapon) of several "Fechtbücher" (fighting manuals) of the 14th and 15th centuries, including that of Johannes Lecküchner (dealing with the "langes messer"), the "Codex Wallerstein", Hans Talhoffer, Paulus Kal and Albrecht Dürer. Messer (weapon) A messer (German for "knife") is a single-edged sword with a knife-like hilt construction. While the various names are often used synonymously, messers are divided into two types: "Lange Messer" ("long knives") are one-handed swords used by Bourgeoisie (middle-class civilians) for personal self-defence. They were about a meter long and may have evolved from the "Bauernwehr" ("peasant's sidearm"). They are also known as "Großes Messer" (Great Knife).
Cutlery Museum visit the last one rouet in working order (the Spinning wheel Lyonnet, of the name of the last one émouleur to have worked on it, Georges Lyonnet) where worked émouleurs slept. Cutlery Museum The Cutlery Museum is a museum located in Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme in France in the department of Puy-De-Dome. The museum has been open since 1982 to preserve the memory of the Thiers cutlery industry. The Cutlery Museum consists of three buildings distributed between the city center, among which the one is dedicated to the history of the cutlery industry (in the former "House of the Consuls", registered in