CH Jucho

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Bridge assembly hall of the company CH Jucho with the main girder of the Spandau Havel Bridge (1911)
former factory premises

CH Jucho (proper spelling Jucho) was a German steel - companies in Dortmund . It was founded in 1877 by the designer and technician Caspar Heinrich Jucho (March 1843 - February 1906) and closed in 1974.

Initially, iron bridges for rail and road traffic, turntables and headframes for mining were part of the production program. The company reached its heyday at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1911 the Rendsburg high bridge was built over the Kiel Canal , which until 2010 - 99 years old - was the longest railway bridge in Europe. Then the company began to work in container and machine construction.

After the Second World War, the company was heavily involved in the reconstruction. The post-war projects included the repair of destroyed bridges, including the large Rhine bridges, as well as helping to rebuild the Westfalenhalle . Later, the company was particularly active in the construction of transmission towers. This is how the Mühlacker transmitter and the Florian tower in Dortmund came about . Significant orders also came from abroad. CH Jucho built railway bridges in South America and Vietnam and was also involved in the building of the League of Nations Palace in Geneva and the construction of the train station in Baghdad . The major projects in Germany included stakes in the Fehmarnsund Bridge and the 45 federal motorway , the Sauerland line. The gantry cranes erected at various shipyards and visible from afar are very well known , including those at ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in Kiel (load capacity 450 t), Pella Sietas in Hamburg-Neuenfelde (load capacity 300 t) and Eriksbergs in Gothenburg (load capacity 450 t). The crane at Kockums in Malmö (load capacity 1500 t) was dismantled in 2002.

The plant was closed in 1974 and then largely continued to operate under the name Thyssen Engineering . The reason for the closure were payment difficulties in connection with the tragic accidental death of Günter Jucho, who had headed the company since the end of the Second World War . 1200 employees were affected by the closure.

The grave of Caspar Heinrich Jucho is in the east cemetery in Dortmund . Juchostraße in Dortmund, where the company was based, still reminds of the company CH Jucho. Today the halls of the logistics company Rhenus Logistics are located on the former factory site .

literature

  • Schaper: For the 50th anniversary of the CH Jucho company in Dortmund. In: Die Bautechnik , Volume 5, Issue 31 (July 15, 1927), pp. 437–439.
  • Max Jucho: The Juchos. Family history contributions. Self-published, Dortmund undated (1932).
  • Ursula Ritter (née Jucho): Traces of steel. A family of industrialists in the 20th century. Aschendoff Verlag, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-12770-4 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 41.7 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 47"  E