Amalienhütte
The Amalienhütte in Bad Laasphe- Niederlaasphe was an ironworks. The former transformer station is now an industrial museum. The building ensemble was entered on the list of monuments of the city of Bad Laasphe on July 1, 1991 .
history
The building ensemble emerged from an iron hammer on the "pond", a pond in Niederlaasphe. Its license was granted in 1707 by Count Henrich Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein to the trades Johann Henrich, Wilhelm Heidersdorf, Hans-Georg Wittich and Antonius Bergmann. The Mittelmann and Feuring families were involved in the operation of the hammer until the beginning of the 19th century. The mayor of Laasphe, Christian Müller, bought the plant in 1821 for 11,000 guilders; a resale for 9000 thalers took place in 1834 to Friedrich Doering, a pharmacist from Marburg. In the following years the market was dominated by cheap iron from Belgium and England. The operation of the hammer became more difficult. Prince Alexander zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein bought the complex in 1846 for 4,951 thalers .
A new sales contract was signed in October 1847, which mainly concerned a hut next to the hammer. Amalie Jung acquired the facility through her son-in-law August Herwig for 4,695 talers. In her honor, the facility was named "Amalienhütte". In 1882 the hut was connected to the railway network from Wallau via the Obere Lahntalbahn .
Later up to 500 workers mainly produced cast iron stoves. Two transformers in the substation had a common of 1000 kW. The hammer mill was still operated with water turbines until 1965. The plants were shut down by Buderus in 1975.
From the ensemble of buildings, a coach house, a factory apartment and an administration building have been preserved.
Transformer building
The Amalienhütte transformer station was built in 1924. This was done in a tower construction with red sandstone. The system distributed the energy via a ring line from Buderusschen Eisenwerke in the Lahn-Dill area . The steelworks in particular was supplied with electricity in this way.
exhibition
One of the two transformers has been preserved. Since it has been cut open, you can see inside. Switching devices, large isolators, instrument transformers, distribution systems as well as protection and measuring devices can also be viewed.
15 marble panels with measuring devices for low-voltage distribution and operating elements come from the system in Hirzenhain (Vogelsberg). These are exhibited in the basement.
A small mill pond is on the site. Its water drives some small water wheels and turbines and is intended to clearly show the function of the former Amalienhütte.
The “Amalie” café is located in the administration building. This was awarded the special prize of the Siegerland-Wittgenstein Tourist Association in 2009 as part of the “Our village has a future” competition.
From April to September the museum opens every last Sunday of the month.
Web links
- Monument of the Month - July 2010. Working Group on Historic Towns and Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on November 12, 2015 .
- Industrial museum transformer station Amalienhütte in Niederlaasphe. heimatverein-niederlaasphe.de, accessed on November 12, 2015 .
- Industrial museum "Trafostation Amalienhütte" in Niederlaasphe. siwikultur.de, accessed on November 12, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Photo) graphic and acoustic railway documents during a photo journey on the railway lines in Wittgensteiner Land from 1976 to 1996. (No longer available online.) Bahndokumente.de, archived from the original on May 5, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2015 . 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.
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 10.1 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 6.9 ″ E