Hermannshütte (Hörde)

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The Hörder Burg - the administrative seat of the Hermannshütte

The Hermannshütte was a steel and ironworks in the Hörde district of Dortmund .

The Hermannshütte on a lithograph from 1850/60

The Iserlohn factory owner Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock had expanded his father's company, a small manufacture of pins and hooks, into a wide variety of branches. In 1828 he set up a rolling mill and in 1835 built the first tinplate factory in Westphalia. On October 23, 1840, he bought a piece of land at the Hörder Burg in order to build an ironworks there that would produce steel based on the English model and process it in the same company. On November 17, 1841, he received approval to build the Hermannshütte . The work, led by the English engineer Samuel Dobbs was built, worked after developed in England innovative puddling and could be processed into steel, in turn, to bar iron, steel straps and especially to railway so on a larger scale pig iron rails were rolled. The plant was operated entirely with steam power. In 1849 twelve steam engines with a total output of approx. 500 hp were in use. 42 puddle ovens supplied u. a. four rolling mills for railroad tracks and a wheel and axle factory. 800 workers managed around 500 rails and twelve sets of wheels a day.

In 1846 the Hermannshütte was spun off from the Piepenstock companies and converted into a general partnership. In 1852 the concession to set up a stock corporation was obtained, and the Hermannshütte became a central component of the newly founded Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein and later the Hoesch Group .

After the plant was shut down in April 2001, parts of the systems were transported to China and started up again there. The buildings were almost completely demolished from 2003 to 2004.

Today the Phoenix Lake is located on the grounds of the Hermannshütte .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Mönnich: Departure into the Revier, Departure to Europe: Hoesch 1871–1971 (anniversary publication of Hoesch AG, Dortmund). Bruckmann, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7654-1441-7 .
  2. ^ From Piepenstock to Phoenix, History of the Hermannshütte 1841–1906 , Hoesch AG, 1990.
  3. ↑ Wolfram Siemann, Nils Freytag: Environmental History: Themes and Perspectives , 2003.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 24 ″  E