Calcium Carbide Factory
| Calcium carbide factory Elektrochemische Gesellschaft mbH VEB Elektrochemie Hirschfelde VEB ferro-alloy factory Hirschfelde |
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| founding | 1917 (as a branch of the v. Heyden chemical factory ) |
| resolution | February 29, 1992 |
| Seat | Hirschfelde , Germany |
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| Branch | Chemical industry |
The calcium carbide factory in Hirschfelde near Zittau was a production facility for the chemical industry .
The calcium carbide factory in Hirschfelde was established in 1917 as a branch of the chemical factory v. Heyden (based in Radebeul ). In 1918, 120 employees produced 20 tons of calcium carbide a day. After the end of the First World War , the plant was initially shut down. In 1924 the chemical factory v. Heyden and the Dresden-based Elektra AG founded Elektrochemische Gesellschaft mbH , which leased the facility in Hirschfelde and resumed calcium carbide production in the same year with 65 employees.
The production program was expanded in 1926 by building plants for generating oxygen and acetylene . By 1929 the number of employees had grown to 105. In the course of the covert rearmament during National Socialism , a melting furnace for the production of ferro-alloys was built in 1934 , which started operations in 1936. This was the first time that ferrosilicon was manufactured in Hirschfelde . Due to the increasing demand for alloy steel , another furnace was built in 1939. Around 1944 about 350 people were producing 25 tons of calcium carbide and 35 tons of ferrosilicon every day.
The shareholders of Elektrochemische Gesellschaft mbH were expropriated after the referendum of June 30, 1946 , and from October 1952 the plant operated as VEB Elektrochemie Hirschfelde with 500 employees. After a further increase in carbide production in the 1950s, it was gradually shut down from 1962 to March 1968. In 1965 the company was separated from VVB Elektrochemie und Plaste Halle (Saale) and incorporated into VVB Eisenerz - Roheisen Saalfeld . Acetylene production ended on December 31, 1969. From 1970 the company was restructured, with the focus on the production of ferroalloys in addition to the production of technical gases (oxygen, nitrogen ). The name of the company was from the time VEB Ferroalloy works Hirschfelde , as a branch of the VEB Ferroalloy works Lippendorf .
On February 29, 1992, the melting shop ceased and the plant closed. The demolition of the production facilities and most of the buildings took place from 1992 to 1995. Today there is an industrial park on the site.
literature
- Ferro-alloy plant in Hirschfelde. 70 years of melting operations. 1987. (Festschrift).
- Historic Hirschfelder Industriepfad - ferro-alloy.
Web links
- After the world war. (History of the chemical factory v. Heyden, with picture).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archival document in inventory 11711. Elektrochemische Gesellschaft mbH, Radebeul. 1942, Retrieved July 10, 2008 .