B. Ruthemeyer
| B. Ruthemeyer Maschinenfabrik & Eisengießerei | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1868 |
| resolution | around 1975 |
| Seat | Soest |
| Branch | Machine and vehicle construction |
The company B. Ruthemeyer Maschinenfabrik & Eisengießerei from Soest in Westphalia was a manufacturer of construction machinery, especially road rollers . In the first half of the 20th century, Ruthemeyer was a leading manufacturer of steam rollers in Germany and also exported to other European countries.
history
The company was founded in 1868 by Bernhard Ruthemeyer sen. Founded as a forge and repair shop for agricultural machinery . From 1888 the forge operated a steam roller manufactured by the G. Kuhn company in Stuttgart. From about 1905, Ruthemeyer then own rolls forth, first with steam engines drive, a little later (from 1909) with internal combustion engine . In the First World War and were road locomotives manufactured. From 1910, Bernhard Ruthemeyer jun. (* December 25, 1871, † 1968) the company.
After the Second World War , Ruthemeyer threatened dismantling as the only roller manufacturer in the Bizone . Steam rollers were produced up to 1953, a total of almost 1,000 pieces.
| Construction year | 1906 | 1919 | 1929 | 1934 | 1953 |
| Serial number | 42 | 299 | 648 | 769 | 941 |
Thereafter, tricycle rollers, vibratory rollers and rubber-tyred rollers with diesel engine drives were manufactured until 1975.
The activities of the Ruthemeyer company were continued by the former Wiesbadener Glyco AG with the Essen branch on Stauderstraße, but the production of road roller components ended very soon afterwards, and the Essen factory was also given up by Glyco and the activities for the production of mechanical engineering components and slide bearings relocated to Braunschweig. The know-how on road rollers can still be found in a few employees at the Braunschweig ironworks, a former Glyco subsidiary.
(Demolished 1987/88) on the former premises of the company today is the city hall Soest ( 51 ° 33 '55 " N , 8 ° 6' 19.7" O ). A Ruthemeyer roller is parked as a technical monument at the roadside of the town hall area (Arnsberger Str., End of the southern arterial road on the Inner Ring - corner Dasselwall) (see picture).
Picture gallery
Steamroller, built in 1925, No. 381
Detail of piston rod and company name plate
Steam roller, built in 1929
Steam roller, manufactured in 1930
Steam roller in the Lower Rhine open-air museum
Diesel roller
Rear view with driver's cab
Diesel roller, manufactured in 1959
Diesel roller
Others
- The toy manufacturer Wiking Modellbau released a model of a Ruthemeyer diesel three-wheel roller from 1956 under the number 8980128 in a 1:87 scale.
- The mathematician Rudolf Zurmühl completed an internship at Ruthemeyer in 1924.
literature
- Jürgen Laege: The B. Ruthemeyer machine factory in Soest / Westf. A road construction machine company through the ages. In: industrial culture. Preservation of monuments, landscape, social, environmental and technological history. Journal of the Rhenish and Westphalian Industrial Museum . ISSN 0949-3751 , issue 18, issue 1/2002, pp. 8–11 (7 images).
- Ruthemeyer: Steam rollers from Soest . In: Baumaschinen Jahrbuch 2008. Podszun GmbH, ISBN 978-3-86133-463-7 .
- Machine industry in Dt. Reich, 1939/40, p. 762.
- Soest in alten Bilder 3, 1987, p. 105.
Web links
- powalski.com
- lwl.org (PDF; 3.08 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ albert-gieseler.de
- ↑ The economic nonsense of the Marshall Plan and dismantling . In: Die Zeit , No. 33/1948
- ↑ bagger-und-bahnen.de
- ↑ wiking-story.de ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
