Elektrowerk Weisweiler

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Elektrowerk Weisweiler GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1917
Seat Eschweiler
Branch metallurgy
Website www.elektrowerk.de

The electric plant Weisweiler GmbH ( EWW ) - or just the power - is a 1917 in Weisweiler (now part of the city Eschweiler in the Aachen region ) based factory for producing metal alloys such as ferro - chrome , ferro manganese , ferro molybdenum and ferro Tungsten . Some of these special alloys are only manufactured here worldwide. Chrome ores are mined in the company's own mines in Turkey . The company is part of the Finnish Ruukki Group .

A residential street immediately to the south with company apartments has been called Elektrowerk since 1925 .

From 1917 to 1988 there was a separate works railway with a connection to Weisweiler station ; Today there are still two bridges, a steel structure spanning the Inde from the year the electrical works was founded, and a later construction over Bundesstraße 264 .

chimney

In 1972 a 175 meter high chimney was built for the production of ferro- molybdenum . After this production was stopped in 1986, the chimney remained unused. On April 26, 1988, a plastic pipe in the chimney caught fire; the fire spread to other facilities in the plant and caused millions in damage. However, the statics of the concrete chimney were not affected by this, so that it was used as a transmission mast by various mobile phone providers in the following years. When the mobile phone providers erected their own transmitter masts and the contracts with the electrical works expired, the chimney also lost this function. Due to the estimated high retrofitting costs of the no longer standard lighting , the chimney, which up to this point was the second tallest building in the city of Eschweiler, was dismantled to a height of 99 meters in 2012 and then sealed.

  • Elektrowerk Weisweiler

  • Elektrowerk: administration

  • Railway bridge of the works railway

  • Former main portal of the electrical works

  • Main portal with chimney in October 2012

  • Chimney of the electrical works behind the Weisweiler substation

  • View from the same point during the demolition

Web links

Commons : Elektrowerk Weisweiler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b company profile on: elektrowerk.de accessed on May 9, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Report on the dismantling of the chimney on aachener-nachrichten.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 22 ″  E