Baroper machine factory
The Baroper Maschinenfabrik was a mechanical engineering company in Dortmund - Barop .
It was founded in July 1856 as Baroper Hütten-AG near the Barop train station and the neighboring Louise colliery. However, the approval for the operation as a stock corporation was not granted, so that in the first few years the company was called Heuner & Co., Commanditgesellschaft, Eisengießerei and Maschinenbauanstalt in Hombruch near Hörde . In the following years the owner changed several times due to a financial crisis: from 1859 the company was called Kuntze & Co. , from 1862 Blaß et Comp. and from 1869 finally Daelen et. Comp.
Production was changed under the ownership of Reiner Daelen : While the factory previously mainly produced raw products for further processing, it now specialized in steam engines and other systems for collieries and coking plants. One of these steam engines is still operational today in the Westphalian Open Air Museum in Hagen . In 1872, 16 years after it was originally founded, approval was finally given to convert the company into a stock corporation, from then on it was called Baroper Maschinenbau AG .
In the next few years, however, another economic crisis weakened the company, until the beginning of the 1880s production was almost idle, but then increased again significantly. In the wake of the global economic crisis , the company finally went under after the First World War, was liquidated by 1932 and the remaining shares were taken over by Schüchtermann & Kremer Baum AG .
The best- known apprentice of the Baroper Maschinenfabrik was August Klönne , whose company later became known primarily for the construction of water towers . He received an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer here in the late 1860s.
literature
- Walter Gronemann: A short history of the offices of Barop and Kirchhörde . Stadtsparkasse Dortmund, 1987.