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The iron station Power AG was a German heavy industry -Unternehmen headquartered in Stettin in the district scratch Wieck with about 2,500 workers.
history
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In 1895, Count Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck decided to implement the idea of the production engineer at his Falva hut, Bernhard Grau , to build a smelting works for the production of pig iron without further processing on the coast for economic reasons . The place Stolzenhagen-Kratzwieck (Szczecin Glinki) on the Oder near Stettin was chosen in order to take advantage of the lower freight costs for iron ore from Sweden and inexpensive high-quality coal from England . In addition, this hut was intended to achieve independence from the raw material syndicates for coal, coke and ore, some of which are still being established . A comparatively high annual production of 120,000–130,000 t was planned. The construction of the named after the second son force metallurgical plant - in short power plant called - began in 1896, and in 1897 was the first blast furnace blown with transfer of the blast furnace plant in the corporation , the Count Guido led as chairman. It also had its own coking plant and a power plant heated with coke oven gas and furnace gas to supply all ancillary operations. In 1906 there were already three blast furnaces. This rapid development was favored by the location. In Szczecin, Swedish ore that was delivered via the Baltic Sea was smelted with, among other things, Silesian hard coal that was transported across the Oder. The main customers for the steel products were AG Vulcan Stettin , Stettiner Oderwerke and Schichau-Werke in Elbing . In addition, Portland slag cement , a waste product from iron smelting, was processed in the cement and brick factory . The loss of the Upper Silesian industrial area in 1922 hit the plant hard.
Huta Szczecin
After the Second World War , the plant was nationalized by the People's Republic of Poland on May 16, 1946 and was named "Huta Szczecin". With a working volume of 490 m³, it was one of the smaller of the Polish steel locations.
In 1996 the plant was privatized and in 2004 it was taken over by the Polish Kronospan GmbH, a subsidiary of the Swiss Kronospan AG . In 2005 the plant was shut down. From 2008 to 2010 the blast furnaces were demolished. The company premises have been used as a storage and transshipment point for methanol since 2011 .
literature
- Toni Pierenkemper (Ed.): The industrialization of European mining regions in the 19th century . 1st edition. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-515-07841-2 .
Web links
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Eisenwerk Kraft in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 45.8 ″ N , 14 ° 37 ′ 3.1 ″ E