Egestorff primer factory

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The Egestorff primer factory (also: Linden primer and pottery factory or Zündhütchenfabrik Georg Egestorff ) was a company founded by the industrialist Georg Egestorff at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover for the production of clay pigeons and primers for ammunition for various weapons and for explosives . The company was located on today's streets Am Ihlpohl and Bornumer Straße at the foot of the Lindener Berg in the area of what is now Hanover's districts of Linden-Mitte , Bornum and Badenstedt

history

After the founding of the Egestorffshall salt works in 1831/32, the affiliation of a chemical factory in 1839 and his ultramarine factory in 1856 , Georg Egestorff also founded a primer factory on Lindener Berg in 1861. However, since he had enough clay available from the pits belonging to the Egestorff brickworks in Empelde , his company initially began producing clay pigeons in order to export them to Great Britain for the clay pigeon shooting that is maintained there .

Only later Egestorff began in his factory, which also near the former site Bornum laboratory was connected with the production of also needed for the clay pigeon shooting primers . For this he was able to further process products that were generated in the other Egestorff factories. Among other things, he ensured the quality of his primers with machine tools , which were tested for mathematical accuracy. Around 300 million primers and metal cartridges, Flobert ammunition and brass cases for hunting and sporting rifles as well as for rifles of the military of all systems were produced annually in the "exemplary designed workshops" .

The product range was soon expanded to include primers for use in quarries and for building railway lines . Egestorff's detonators, which could be used for dynamite , gun cotton or other explosives, were "sent to all parts of the world."

After Georg Egestorff's death in 1868, the heirs reorganized his operations. The Egestorff primer and pottery factory thus became the owner of coal mines and authorized persons in the Deister near Wennigsen .

In the years of the start-up crisis that began in 1873 , the company was converted into a stock corporation in 1879 . In 1913, the year before the outbreak of the First World War , the company had long since been converted to the manufacture of war-ready products. Because of the “dangerousness of the products for the nearby buildings”, the factory was moved to an open field near Empelde.

The coal mines in Deister were sold to the Friedrichshall potash works in 1920 . During the Weimar Republic , Dynamit AG , formerly Alfred Nobel & Co. (DAG for short), took over the ammunition factory, which was only closed after the Second World War .

Soil contamination

In the area of ​​the former primer factory on Lindener Berg, parts of the allotment garden colony Am Ihlpohl are now located , where high levels of mercury were found in some cases, caused by the former ammunition production. On behalf of ThyssenKrupp Wohnimmobilien GmbH, Essen / ThyssenKrupp RealEstate, under the heading " Allotment gardens and children's playgrounds / Primer factory Hanover - development of an investigation concept and final risk assessment for the allotment garden complex" Am Ihlpohl "(phase 1) and derivation of a preferred variant for hazard prevention measures Phase 2) "carried out investigations in the period from 2004 to 2005, for which the result was among other things:

"[...] For a large number of the parcels, the suspicion of danger was confirmed in the course of further investigations of the facts and, as an immediate response, protective and restrictive measures and, in the medium term, the implementation of remedial measures were recommended [...]."

literature

  • Paul Hirschfeld: The Linden primer and pottery factory in Linden near Hanover, In: Hanover's Grossindustrie und Großhandel, described by Paul Hirschfeld with the support of the Royal High Presidium and the Provincial Authorities of the Province of Hanover , ed. from Deutsche Export Bank Berlin, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1891; P. 184; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Egestorff - Georg E. Salzwerke. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 145f., Here: p. 146.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, the city of Ronnenberg mentions Empelde on its website as the location of the primer factory in 1861; Compare Stephanie Harms (responsible): Empelde on the ronnenberg.de page , last accessed on September 4, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Egestorff - Georg E. Salzwerke (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Paul Hirschfeld: The Linden primer and pottery factory ... (see literature)
  3. ^ Andreas-Andrew Bornemann: Lindener Gewerbe-Handel und Industriebetriebe from 1838-1859 on his page postkarten-archiv.de , last accessed on November 9, 2014
  4. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Saline Egestorffshall near Badenstedt. Gouache. Around 1835. In: Hanover Archive , Vol. 6: Die Bürgerstadt , Sheet B7
  5. ↑ a b deisterbergbau.de: Argestorf-Wennigsen coal mine , accessed on September 4, 2018
  6. ↑ a b Dietmar Barkowski (responsible for content): Allotment gardens and children's playgrounds ... (see under the section Web Links), last accessed on November 9, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 21.6 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 56.4"  E