Aplerbecker hut
The Aplerbecker Hütte is a former iron and steel works in the Dortmund district of Aplerbeck , whose plants, which had existed since 1858, stood on the edge of the Aplerbeck town center south of the Aplerbeck station on the Dortmund – Soest railway line until the end of the 1920s . At the time of its greatest prosperity, around 1000 workers were employed in the "hut", as it was briefly called in Aplerbeck.
history
In 1856, Blücher AG was initially founded with share capital of 1,000,000 thalers ; it can be seen as the forerunner of the Aplerbecker Hütte . The company acquired the factory premises and iron ore mines and built a puddle and rolling mill . The blast furnace was put into operation in December 1858 . However, the share capital was not sufficient for further expansion, which would only have resulted in an economic, profitable operation of the steelworks. No further capital could be obtained and in 1859 the company went bankrupt . On March 10, 1860, the furnace was blown out, 192 workers were laid off.
In August 1861, eight members of the former board of directors of Blücher AG bought the entire plant for 200,000 thalers . They also bought the associated iron ore mines. After the founding of the Commandit company Aplerbecker Hütte , operations were resumed in 1862.
In 1869 the Aplerbecker Hütte was taken over by Wilhelm Brügmann , G. Weyland and other shareholders, the company was now called Aplerbecker Hütte, Brügmann, Weyland & Co. In 1909 the company was converted into a stock corporation under the same name . The two personally liable partners Brügmann and Weyland were thus released from their liability. 1911 merged the hut with the Westphalian wire Werke AG in Werne to Westphalian iron and wire industry AG . In 1920 the Stinnes Group took over the Aplerbecker Hütte. In 1925 - four years before the onset of the global economic crisis - the Aplerbecker Hütte was shut down as part of the rationalization measures in the West German coal and steel industry after the First World War . The ironworks was demolished by 1930.
Production took place in the puddle and sheet metal rolling mill, there was a foundry for pig iron , a boiler forge , beehive ovens for coke production and a mechanical workshop. Production was later carried out in Siemens-Martin ovens and in a wire mill.
Only the magnet production area, founded in 1920 and later outsourced, survived the closure of the Aplerbecker hut as the Aplerbeck magnet factory . The magnet production has operated under the name Thyssen Magnettechnik since 1992 , since 1997 as MTG Magnetsysteme GmbH and has been active on the market since 2000 under the name Tridelta . The Magnet Museum in Aplerbeck has been a reminder of the eventful history of the magnet factory since 1999 .
literature
- Wolfgang Noczynski: Aplerbecker Hut 1856–1925. Creation, development, decline. (Ed. by Aplerbecker Geschichtsverein e.V.) Gustav Kleff KG, Dortmund-Aplerbeck 1997.
Web links
- Contributions to the Aplerbecker hut on aplerbeck-damals.de
- Working conditions at the Aplerbecker hut