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An iron craftsmen works according to 14th century Germanic methods in a hammer mill in Medzev, Slovakia on June 5, 2010. Medzev has a significant German minority roughly equivalent to 12.5 percent of the town's population, but a town must have at least a quarter of its residents be of the same minority to qualify for dual signs at the entrance to the town; Medzev's German name is Metsenseifen.