Dollbergen gasoline refinery
| Dollbergen gasoline refinery | |||
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| General information about the refinery | |||
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| other names | Dollbergen oil works | ||
| Operational information | |||
| Operating company | Gasolin AG | ||
| Employees | 499 (1954) | ||
| Start of operation | 1918 | ||
| End of oil processing | 1955 | ||
| End of operation | 1969 | ||
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| Input materials | oil | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 52 ° 25 '6.4 " N , 10 ° 10' 49.4" E | ||
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| Location | Dollbergen | ||
| local community | Uetze | ||
| Region ( NUTS3 ) | Hanover region | ||
| country | State of Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Dollbergen gasoline refinery was an oil refinery in the village of Dollbergen in Lower Saxony . It is not to be confused with the nearby Avista Oil , previously the Dollbergen mineral oil refinery , which specializes in the processing of waste oil .
history
The refinery emerged from an erythropel benzene and ammonia factory which Georg Greiser took over on May 27, 1918 and which operated at this location. Initially, the company that was created was called Greiserwerke, later Erdölwerke Dollbergen GmbH . In 1925 the company was sold to Hugo Stinnes-Riebeck Montan- und Oelwerke AG . The refinery ceded this to Gasolin in 1926 . The refinery mainly processed crude oil from the Hanover province.
Using the proceeds from the sale of the refinery, Georg Greiser built a new refinery in the immediate vicinity of the gasoline refinery. This second plant is considered to be the forerunner of today's Dollbergen refinery, which processes waste oil.
During the Second World War, the gasoline works and the Dollbergen train station were bombed by the United States Army Air Forces on August 5, 1944 at around 1 p.m. 12 people were killed in the air strike, including six employees of the gasoline works and several forced laborers. The plant was almost completely destroyed and burned out.
With help from the Marshall Plan , the plant was rebuilt after the war. In 1954 the company had 499 employees. With the takeover of Gasolin-Nitag AG by Aral in 1955, the distillation of crude oil was stopped. Only the distribution of specialty industrial oils remained at the site. This was discontinued in 1969 and the rest of the plant was shut down. The tank farm continued to operate until 1976, and in 1978 most of the facilities and buildings were demolished. The site was partially redeveloped.
Reuse of the site
The site of the former refinery fell due to the sale of Aral to BP . Since 2009, a change in the land use plan has provided for the development and renovation of the site. After the removal of contaminated sites, a new industrial area and areas for the train station are to be created.
In addition to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , various environmental organizations also spoke out against building the fallow land . From the point of view of the opponents, building on wasteland would displace rare species. One can only make friends with the development of an outdoor photovoltaic system.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Deutsche Ölpolitik 1928-1938" by Titus Kockel p. 91 Importance of the refinery for Hannoversche crude oils
- ↑ When the bombs fell in HAZ 70 years ago on August 7, 2014
- ↑ History of the gasoline
- ^ Dollbergen: BUND rejects industrial area in the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung of January 16, 2012