Carlshütte (Büdelsdorf)

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Carlshütte (1856)

The Carlshütte was an iron foundry in Büdelsdorf near Rendsburg in Holstein.

history

Location of the Carlshütte (1848)

The merchant Marcus Hartwig Holler had an ironworks built in Büdelsdorf in 1827 against the background of opening trade routes and suspected ore finds . The establishment of this company changed the structure of the place Büdelsdorf near Rendsburg fundamentally. After his sponsor, the royal governor of Schleswig-Holstein, Carl von Hessen , he named the ironworks "Carlshütte". The smelting of the lawn iron ore turned out to be unproductive or uneconomical, so that production was switched to cast iron .

Examples of iron casting can be found in the Iron Art Casting Museum Büdelsdorf . This museum was donated by Käte Ahlmann in 1963 . In addition to the cast iron works, Holler had a shipyard built. Holler was distinguished by his entrepreneurial skills and also set up companies for glue boiling and poultry farming . In these he offered jobs for the women of the ironworkers with home work such as weaving , wire and straw braiding. In 1841, 250 workers were already employed in the Carlshütte.

With the completion of the Kaiser-Wilhelms Canal in 1895, more favorable transport conditions arose for the Carlshütte. The workforce rose rapidly to 1,100 in 1909. The weights cast in the Carlshütte generated such high calibration fees that the residents of Büdelsdorf did not have to pay any municipal taxes.

The Ahlmann family took over the hut from Holler. After Julius Ahlmann's death , his widow Käte ran the business from 1931 until her death in 1963. Käte Ahlmann was instrumental in the success of the Carlshütte. She is said to have run the hut "with a hand as hard as iron".

While almost 6,000 people lived in Büdelsdorf before the Second World War , the population in Schleswig-Holstein increased to over 10,000 after the Second World War due to the refugees . The Ahlmann company employed around 3,000 people around 1960.

The Ahlmann-Carlshütte had to endure the first bankruptcy in 1974 and the second and final bankruptcy in 1997 and was closed. The main products of the Carlshütte were enamelled cast iron bathtubs . These had the advantage of keeping the temperature of the bathing water for a long time. However, they have been supplanted by the cheaper plastic tubs.

Artwork Carlshütte

Today the art and culture center of the artwork Carlshütte (formerly KiC - art in the Carlshütte ) is located on the site and in the halls of the former Carlshütte . During the summer months, contemporary artists from all over the world present their works here every year at the NordArt exhibition .

  • Memorial for M. H. Holler in Büdelsdorf

  • Sculpture park in the KiC

See also

literature

  • Short history of the Carlshütte with emphasis on the more recent: 1827–1940 , Holler'sche Carlshütte, Rendsburg 1940
  • Harry Schmidt : 125 years of Carlshütte , Ahlmann-Carlshütte KG, Rendsburg 1952
  • Review of the 125th anniversary of Ahlmann-Carlshütte KG Rendsburg, April 19, 1952 , Ahlmann-Carlshütte KG, Rendsburg 1952
  • wi snackt uns ut = We talk about ovens and stoves , customer magazine, Ahlmann-Carlshütte KG, Rendsburg 2/1961 to 3/1965
  • Jens-Uwe Lemburg: work in the hut. On the economic and social development of Rendsburg 1850–1914 with special consideration of the Carlshütte workforce, Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1990

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