Deilbach hammer

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Deilbach hammer
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The Deilbachhammer was an iron hammer in Essen - copper turning on the lower reaches of the Deilbach . It is used today for illustrative purposes and for scientific research and is considered to be the last hammer mill in the Ruhr area that is still in its original location . The preservation of the monument is not guaranteed.

history

Like other historical industrial buildings, the hammer belongs to the Deilbachtal museum landscape . Like the Kupferhammer located downstream, it is operated as a branch of the Ruhr Museum (formerly the Ruhrland Museum). The group of buildings, located directly on the stream, consisting of a hammer mill and a residential building, originally dates from the 16th century and has been a listed building since 1985. The two-story slated half-timbered house with a gable roof, which is still preserved today, was built in the 18th century.

The two tail hammers were each driven by a paddle wheel, which was operated by diverted Deilbach water. With head weights of 100 kilograms or 70 kilograms, they forged iron tools such as plowshares or axles, as well as quarry tools and fittings. At the end of the 19th century, the facility was used for repair work on the Prinz Wilhelm Railway.

In 1911 the Bergische Elektrizitäts -versorgung-Gesellschaft, which had built a coal-fired power station in the immediate vicinity, bought the hammer.

Shut down in 1917 after the main drive shaft broke, the hammer was restored from 1935 to 1937 with the support of the power station, the Krupp company , the Association of German Ironworkers (VDEH), the Association of German Engineers (VDI), the City of Essen and the Provincial Administration of the Rhineland . In the Second World War, however, it fell into disrepair.

Electric replacement drive

In 1960 the city of Essen acquired the ensemble and incorporated it into the Ruhrland Museum. Since the entire water art (weir, upper and lower ditch) had meanwhile been buried and the water wheels had been destroyed, an electric drive has been used since then. Due to the flooding of the Deilbach, the area and the buildings were repeatedly contaminated with mud and partially destroyed. The inadequate replacement of the underwater ditch with a pumping system, which cannot guarantee the rapid drainage of the water, is considered to be the cause of the devastating effect of the regular floods.

The takeover of the museum by the Rhineland Regional Council in the 1980s did not materialize.

In 2000, security work was carried out with the participation of students from Essen.

In 2002 there was a fundamental inventory of historical monuments, and in 2003 it was supplemented by an expert report by Stadtwerke Essen. The total renovation calculated in 2007 would therefore cost 1.5 million euros. On September 2, 2009, the Essen cultural committee commissioned the administration to check the maintenance of the Deilbachhammer ensemble. At the same time, the Rhineland Regional Council made 84,000 euros available for initial security measures.

In 2011, the City Council of Essen decided to save the Deilbachtal museum landscape - primarily the Deilbachhammer. The first meeting of the "Deilbachtal Working Group" took place on October 18, 2011. In addition to the representatives of the political parties, representatives of the "Historisches Verein für Stadt und Stift Essen", the association "IDEE" and the "Ruhr Museum" also took part in the meetings. A project group for the operative business was founded from this group. In spring 2012 the matter failed because of the "diversity of political opinion" and the project group was dissolved again.

It was not until the summer of 2013 that a newly structured working group, the "Deilbachtal Consortium" came together. It consists of two representatives each from the Historical Association, the IDEE Association, the Ruhr Museum and the Bürgerschaft Kupferdreh eV The consortium successfully took on the planning and found ways to finance the restoration of the Deilbachhammer Ensemble. In the fall of 2016, the "Association of Friends and Patrons of the Deilbachtal" was founded in order to secure and look after the Deilbachhammer and all other historical objects in the "Deilbachtal Museum Landscape" in the future. The first groundbreaking ceremony for the representatives of the Deilbachtal consortium and the GVE group of the city of Essen took place in July 2017. Completion is now planned for spring 2020.

As part of the "Deilbachtal cultural landscape", the Deilbachhammer is part of the route of industrial culture .

literature

  • Johann Rainer Busch, The historic Deilbachtal in Oberbyfang and Kupferdreh, an inventory . Essen 2013

Web links

Commons : Deilbachhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deilbachhammer - a jewel goes to waste. In: lokalkompass.de. January 19, 2011, accessed April 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Official start of construction for the renovation and renovation of the Deilbachhammer ensemble. In: essen.de. July 11, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Eisenhammer in Essen-Kupferdreh is to be opened in 2020. WAZ, September 6, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .


Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 57.3 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 12.1"  E