Breaking roller
Bruchwalze is a former settlement that was devastated for the construction of the Biggetalsperre . The break roller was located in North Rhine-Westphalia in the middle Biggetal between Olpe and Attendorn .
The construction of the dam was decided before the Second World War , but had to be postponed for the duration of the war. The project was resumed around 1950. In 1965 the Biggetalsperre was completed, so that the damming of water could begin. The area of the former village is now on the bottom of the dam.
history
Bruchwalze was about 350 m south of Imminghausen and was first called "Auf dem Bruch zu Imminghausen" or "Imminghauser Bruch" for short. The settlement was young and did not begin until around 1807. But as early as 1795 the union of the Hütten-Hammers zu Howald was authorized to move their Breithammer to the Bigge near Imminghausen. Fire, wars and expensive times had prevented the project. In 1806 Franz Josef Hundt and the heirs Peter Sondermann applied for the Howalder Breithammer to be transferred to the Bigge near Imminghausen below the two hard hammers. After approval and an unsuccessful objection by the Hardt hammer owner, the "new hammer in a break" was able to go into operation. But the plant quickly fell victim to the economic crisis of the time; because in 1824 it is said of the breaker plate hammer that it has been out of operation for six or eight years. In the next decade the hammer seems to have been used again; because in 1835 F. Kühn from Bremge delivered charcoal to “Bruchhammer”. From 1819 onwards, the industrial settlement belonged to the Attendorn municipality in the Attendorn-Land municipality .
The Olper merchant Franz Josef Bonzel, who soon acquired the hammer, had a sheet metal roller built on the slope, which went into operation at the end of 1839. It was the first rolling mill in the Olpe district and has been called the break roller since then. The iron plates produced in the factory were partially processed into stove pipes (“beeps”) on an attached “beeper”. This forge was popularly known as "Piepenklöpper". Initially, the plant was operated exclusively with water. In 1877 the Bonzel company received the concession to install two steam boilers, and in 1896 the plant was connected to the railway.
In 1855, the breaking roller with two heating furnaces produced 6090 ct. Black plate for 48,720 thalers . As a result, 23 workers (111 people with their families) found their livelihood. In 1878 Bruchwalze used 1,337,200 kg of coal. Sheet iron weighing 895,218 kg was used for rolling. Over the next few years, an average of 590,000 kg of rolled sheet was produced annually. For 1000 kg of the product, an average of 1345 kg of sheet iron was required. The number of workers fluctuated between 30 and 23. The wages per 1,000 kg of rolled iron averaged 25 marks.
In 1906 50 workers were employed at the A. Bonzel & Co. factory at Bruchwalze, which was equipped with three pairs of rollers and steam power. Approx. 40 double-wagon plates were produced every month. The plate rolling mill remained in operation for almost 100 years until it was acquired by the Otto Wolff Group in Cologne and shut down in 1931. About 80 workers lost their jobs. Roll stands and machines were scrapped.
In 1934 Heinrich W. Muhr bought the site and the buildings of the former breaker and founds the Muhr & Söhne sheet metal factory. A cold rolling mill was built which was equipped with the most modern technological advances of the time. It survived the Second World War and participated in the reconstruction of the German economy with considerable production successes. After the business was closed due to the impending construction of the Biggetalsperre, the company was relocated and rebuilt in Kraghammer .
Above the rolling mill, to the left of Talstrasse, a ring kiln brick factory was built in 1899. Large quantities of bricks have since been shipped to structures in all directions. In 1931 the brickworks succumbed to the economic crisis, but was taken over by Muhr & Söhne in 1937, who resumed operations in the same year and after 1945 installed an artificial drying facility and two extrusion presses. At the end of 1965, the brickworks found a new location on the Lower Rhine in Emmerich due to the construction of the Biggetalsperre . The clinker works HW Muhr GmbH & Co. KG were established on a brick factory owned by Ignatz Pastor that was closed in 1956.
In 1817 the place had three inhabitants, in 1848 there were eight and in 1885 13 inhabitants. In 1936 there were two houses with five households and 16 residents. The address book from 1956 in Bruchwalze lists the names "Josef Becker (bricklayer), Otto Dörschel (head master), Wwe. Berta Letzel, Gustav Letzel (worker), Friedrich Lorenz (worker), Heinrich Muhr (manufacturer), Anton Quast (commercial manager). Employee) and Hermann Tapper (worker) ”.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Sondermann: History of the iron industry in the Olpe district , Münster 1907, pages 152 to 155, 162
- ↑ Norbert Scheele: Historical hike through the Biggetalsperren area , in: Heimatstimmen des Kreis Olpe, 4th century. 1926/27, Olpe 1966, episodes 58, 60, 61, 62
- ↑ History of the Muhr brickworks in Emmerich [1]
- ↑ Official residents' register of the district of Olpe 1938, Attendorn Office, page XIV
- ^ Home address book of the district of Olpe, Münster 1956, section Attendorn-Land, page 147
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 '52.6 " N , 7 ° 51' 4.2" E