Schmitt, Germany
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Schmitt is a small town in the Eifel area in western Germany. It is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Ulmen, the district Cochem-Zell, and the state Rhineland-Palatinate. The Moselle River is nearby.
The place name Schmitt leads itself off from the old job title schmied (blacksmith). Before 1750 there were important iron ore mines in the region of the southern Eifel. The rivers and brooks supplied thereby necessary water power for the bellows of the blacksmiths. The forests of the Eifel supplied the necessary firewood.
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