Carolinenhütte

Carolinenhütte Kallmünz market Coordinates: 49 ° 11 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 55 ′ 16 ″ E
Height :	356–377 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	5 (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	93183
Area code :	09473
Location of Carolinenhütte in Bavaria

Carolinenhütte is a district of the market Kallmünz in the Upper Palatinate district of Regensburg ( Bavaria ).

Geographical location

The hamlet is located about four kilometers northwest of the core town of Kallmünz and about one kilometer west of Rohrbach am Forellenbach on the state road 2234 . The Carolinenhütte iron foundry is located here .

Carolinenhütte iron foundry

Listed architectural monument, Bechtel manufacturer's villa in Carolinenhütte

Cast iron street lamp in front of the Carolinenhütte plant

The iron foundry Carolinenhütte is part of the Bavarian Iron Road. As early as the 14th century, hammer mills were built in the region , which also processed the iron deposits in the Kallmünz area. The Lauf hammer mill , which was lost in the 17th century, was located near today's Carolinenhütte . In addition, there are a number of mills and sawmills that are still in operation on the Forellenbach in the direction of Hohenfels .

The Carolinenhütte was founded in 1800. It was named after Caroline von Bechtel , whose husband had the iron foundry and a castle-like villa built above the factory between 1830 and 1832. However, the Carolinenhütte was shut down in 1882 because of strong competition from the Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft Maximilianhütte in Sulzbach-Rosenberg . In 1885, Peter Höllein acquired the company that had been shut down. Since then, the Carolinenhütte has been run as a family business by the 5th generation and has developed into a modern foundry and trading company.

Today the foundry employs around 70 people who manufacture gray cast iron and nodular cast iron products. The Carolinenhütte is one of the oldest still existing iron foundries in Bavaria .

Web links

Commons : Carolinenhütte (Kallmünz) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Carolinenhütte in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library
Homepage Carolinenhütte
Carolinenhütte Kallmünz on industrial history
On the history of the places on the Bavarian Iron Road (from north to south). Carolinenhütte near Rohrbach

Individual evidence

↑ Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 270 ( digitized version ).
↑ Carolinenhütte iron foundry . In: carolinenhuette.de . Retrieved April 21, 2017.
↑ Helmut Wolf: Carolinenhütte is an eye-catcher on Bayerischer Eisenstrasse . In: Mittelbayerische.de . October 29, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
↑ Wolfgang Ziegler: Carolinenhütte is no longer in the fire . In: Mittelbayerische.de . April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.

[1] Bavarian State Office for Statistics and Data Processing (Ed.): Official local directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987 . Issue 450 of the articles on Bavaria's statistics. Munich November 1991, DNB 94240937X , p. 270 ( digitized version ).

[2] Carolinenhütte iron foundry . In: carolinenhuette.de . Retrieved April 21, 2017.

[3] Helmut Wolf: Carolinenhütte is an eye-catcher on Bayerischer Eisenstrasse . In: Mittelbayerische.de . October 29, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2017.

[4] Wolfgang Ziegler: Carolinenhütte is no longer in the fire . In: Mittelbayerische.de . April 19, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2017.