Stock corporation for locomotive construction Hohenzollern
| Stock corporation for locomotive construction Hohenzollern | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | June 8, 1872 |
| resolution | November 1929 |
| Seat | Düsseldorf-Grafenberg |
| Branch | Mechanical and plant engineering |
The Aktiengesellschaft für Lokomotivbau Hohenzollern was a German company for the production of locomotives that existed in Düsseldorf from 1872 to 1929 .
The company was founded on June 8, 1872 in Düsseldorf-Grafenberg by several industrialists, including the Haniel and William Suermondt families . Initially, due to the economic crisis that broke out in 1873, the so-called Gründerkrach , instead of locomotives, the company produced ice machines , steam rollers and machines for sugar factories . The first locomotive left the plant in 1874. The plant produced around 4600 locomotives, including around 400 steam storage locomotives , as well as factory and private railway locomotives of various gauges. After the increasingly critical overall situation in German locomotive construction around 1929, it was closed in November 1929.
Hohenzollern AG had hoped in vain for follow-up orders from the Deutsche Reichsbahn for the 80 series . The 80 030 in the Bochum Railway Museum was one of the last pieces produced by the Hohenzollern Corporation for Locomotive Construction. The last locomotives left the factory in September 1929; the plant was then largely demolished. The corporation was finally formally dissolved in 1934.
During the Second World War, which was located from 1943 to 1945 on the site of the former locomotive factory satellite camp Berta of the Buchenwald concentration camp . The approximately 1,000 prisoners housed there had to do forced labor for the armaments company Rheinmetall . Only part of the administration building and the electrical center of the Hohenzollern plant have been preserved, otherwise the headquarters of Metro AG and a housing estate are located on the site .
Furthermore, the company produced "Circulier-Oefen" under its own patent, which were sold in four different versions for workshops and in one version for heating rooms.
Steam storage locomotive, built in 1911
Steam storage locomotive, built in 1910
A locomotive built in 1910 owned by the Pfeifer & Langen sugar factory
Detail from 1910
Identification from 1903, Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen
Locomotive 1669
(built in 1903) Franconian open air museum Fladungen
Steam storage locomotive 3869 (built in 1918) in the Bavarian Railway Museum in Nördlingen
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Flügel: Delivery list of the Hohenzollern locomotive factory. In: Yearbook for Railway History , ISSN 0340-4250 , Volume 22 (1990), pp. 85-128.
- Kurt Pierson: Hohenzollern locomotives 1872–1929. Steiger, Moers 1984, ISBN 3-921564-68-9 .
- Flyer Fränkisches Freilandmuseum Fladungen , 2010 because of locomotive no. 1669 OLB no. 2 "Alfred"
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Industriekultur Düsseldorf: Hohenzollernwerk , accessed on July 31, 2018
- ↑ Advertisement in: Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , No. 39 of September 30, 1882 ( digitized version ), p. 6.