Alsen (cement manufacturer)

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The former Itzehoer Alsen cement factory around 1895
The former cement factory in Uetersen around 1900

The Alsen company was a cement manufacturer with its headquarters in Itzehoe . After takeovers, mergers and name changes, the company has been trading as “ Holcim (Deutschland) AG” for the first time since 2003 without the “Alsen” part of the name.

Companies

The company was founded by Gustav Alsen at the end of 1863. After the takeover of competitors and their factories in Lägerdorf , Uetersen and Hemmoor , the "Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabriken KG" merged with the "Breitenburger Portland-Cement-Fabrik AG" to form "Alsen-Breitenburg Zement- und Kalkwerke GmbH" , which then merged with “Nordcement AG” in 1997 to form “Alsen AG”, which in 2003 was finally renamed “Holcim (Deutschland) AG”.

Alsen's main factory in Itzehoe was shut down in 1982 and most of the buildings have since been demolished. Among the remains are the buildings of Planet Alsen .

Itzehoe – Lägerdorf railway line

Holcim still operates a cement plant in Lägerdorf . This was connected to the Marschbahn with the 7.7 km long freight train line Itzehoe – Lägerdorf in Itzehoe , which opened on November 19, 1951 . This line branches off the Marschbahn at the former Alsen station (today Awanst.) And leads via the Lägerdorf freight yard directly to the Holcim works station . From there, a siding leads to the Dammann chalk works. Construction of the standard gauge line began on May 11, 1949.

The Lägerdorf railway operating company was founded especially for the operation . After the company merger and renaming to Holcim , the company was merged with "Holcim (Deutschland) AG" on May 18, 2010 . For many years, the company used its own steam and diesel locomotives on the route, which from 1992 onwards were rented by the Kai Jensen locomotive rental company.

Owner / management

Gustav Alsen was born in Witzwort on February 17, 1836 and studied architecture with Conrad Wilhelm Hase at the Hanover Polytechnic . There he became a member of the Slesvico-Holsatia country team, later the Slesvico-Holsatia Corps . After graduating, he worked as an entrepreneur and founded the Alsen Portland cement factory in Itzehoe at the end of 1862 . He died in Brazil in 1868.

From 1867 to 1905 Heinrich Wessel directed the expansion of the company as commercial director.

meaning

The company experienced a rapid rise with the production of Portland cement . It also delivered overseas for a long time until companies there were able to achieve similarly good cement quality.

For Itzehoe and the Steinburg region , the company represented a major economic factor, which has shaped the area infrastructurally (for example, small railway line, cable car (see below), Breitenburg Canal ) and because of the clay and chalk quarrying to this day also the landscape (see for example chalk pit Saturn , Große Tonkuhle , Alsens Tongrube , Tongrube Muldsberg and Rensinger See ).

In Kreismuseum Prinzeßhof in Itzehoe, a space history of Alsen is dedicated, there is also a cab of a ship from the Breitenburger channel.

Cable car

In 1907 and 1908, the company had a 13 km long cable car built that transported approx. 400 t of clay from Wacken , Agethorst and Nienbüttel to the Alsen works in Itzehoe every day . The until 1977 operated cable car was after finishing the longest cable car in Germany and was by the company Adolf Bleichert & Co. built. Most of the plant has been dismantled today.

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Kienitz, Carsten Brecht, Christopher Wulfgramm: Chalk railways and other historical means of transport in the Lägerdorf area. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Drehscheibe eV , Cologne 2014, ISBN 3929082330 .
  • Holcim (Deutschland) AG (Ed.): History with a future. 150 years of cement production in Lägerdorf. Festschrift, Hamburg 2012, ( online (PDF) ).
  • Itzehoer Geschichte work group (ed.): Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabrik Itzehoe. Itzehoe 2011.
  • Jörg Benz: From Alsen AG to Holcim (Deutschland) AG. The Alsen industrialist family. In: Heimatverband Kreis Steinburg (ed.): Historical and current features in Itzehoe. Itzehoe 2004, pp. 42-46.
  • Sabine Jebens-Ibs: The Alsen'sche Portland cement factory in Itzehoe from 1863 to 1918. In: Stadt Itzehoe (ed.): Itzehoe. History of a city in Schleswig-Holstein. Vol. 2, Itzehoe 1991, pp. 194-238.
  • Reimer Wentorp: Lägerdorf is becoming an industrial location . In: Lägerdorf community (ed.): Lägerdorfer Chronik. 2nd edition, Lägerdorf 1986, pp. 60-130.
  • Breitenburger Portland-Cement-Fabrik AG (Ed.): 100 years of Breitenburger Portland-Cement-Fabrik. Hamburg and Lägerdorf in Holstein. March, 15. 1884-1984. In: 100th Annual Report 1983. Hamburg and Lägerdorf 1983, pp. 18–31.
  • Ernst Quedzuweit: Lägerdorf: From farming village to industrial community. In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 1979. Itzehoe 1978, pp. 79-97.
  • Hans Staack: The ancestors of the factory owner Otto Friedrich Alsen. In: Heimatverband Kreis Steinburg (Hrsg.): Steinburger Jahrbuch 1965. Itzehoe 1964, pp. 122-136.
  • Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabriken KG (Ed.): 1863-1963 100 years of Alsen. Festschrift, Hamburg 1963.
  • Shipping company of Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabriken KG Hamburg (ed.): Ninety years of shipping company of Alsen'sche Portland-Cement-Fabriken KG Hamburg 11. A book of remembrance on June 16, 1958. Festschrift, Hamburg 1958.
  • Herbert Schnoor: The domestic cement industry, its raw materials and their origins. In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 1957. Itzehoe 1956, pp. 27–41.
  • Friedrich Hansen: In the sign of the chalk. In: Heimatbuch -ommission (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Steinburg. Vol. 2, Augustin, Glückstadt 1925, pp. 366–377.
  • August Fröbe: The beginnings of chalk extraction and processing in Lägerdorf. In: Heimatbuch -ommission (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Steinburg. Vol. 2, Augustin, Glückstadt 1925, pp. 378-380.
  • Walter C. Bröcker: Die Industrie des Kreis Steinburg , in: Heimatbuch-Kommission (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Steinburg , Vol. 1, Glückstadt 1924, esp. Pp. 207–210.
  • August Fröbe: Origin and development of the Schleswig-Holstein Portland cement industry. Inaugural dissertation, Göttingen 1923.

Web links

Commons : Alsen (Itzehoe)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corporate development largely according to The water systems of Itzehoe and the area north of the Stör (PDF) , footnote 301.
  2. ↑ Alsen train station. Pictures of the train station. In: bahnhof-itzehoe.de. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Alsen train station. (No longer available online.) In: bahnhof-itzehoe.de. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bahnhof-itzehoe.de
  4. ↑ Holcim: Bahnbetriebsgesellschaft Lägerdorf merged. eurailpress.de, July 15, 2010, accessed on January 20, 2017 .
  5. ^ Stefan Meyer: Chalk, lime and coal dust - the connecting line of the Holcim cement plant in Lägerdorf near Itzehoe . Ed .: BAHN-REPORT. No. 2 , 2013 ( bahn-report.de ).
  6. ↑ a b Record on Gustav Alsen in the database architects and artists with direct reference to Conrad Wilhelm Hase (1818–1902) , last accessed on March 3, 2013
  7. ^ Corps Slesvico-Holsatia, Corpsliste , winter semester 1981/82, p. 12, No. 025
  8. ^ The cable cars, p. 54 / n64 ff, cable car of the Portland cement factory Alsen Itzehoe . Archive.org. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  9. ↑ The Agethorster cable car . agethorst.de. Retrieved January 12, 2011.