Eschweiler wire factory

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The Eschweiler wire factory was a wire factory in the western center of the city of Eschweiler in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​region of Aachen . The 123,000 m² site between Langwahn , Inde , Steinstrasse and today's Indestrasse (until the end of the 1960s , Mühlenstrasse ) is now used as a park with a skate park and a parking lot, and the bus station and the employment agency building were also built here.

The wire rod produced in the wire factory from 1822 to 1953 was mainly processed in the Aachen scratch and needle production.

history

In 1822 the wire factory was founded under the name Draht-Fabrik-Compagnie in the form of a stock corporation with headquarters in neighboring Aachen by Friedrich Thyssen and the Aachen manufacturers Monheim, Friedrich Englerth , Ludwig Beissel and Jacob Springsfeld. The share capital was 12,000 thalers. The factory was Germany's first wire rod factory. Englert, Reuleaux & Dobbs took care of equipping the machine park and assembling the production facilities. Thyssen was director of the plant from 1834 to 1859, both technical and commercial.

The wire factory during the flood in 1906

The company's Belgian wire mill was superior to the French and English systems. In the Eifel, the company processed forged scale iron into wire rod; The scraping wire produced from this was requested by the cloth industry in Aachen.

In 1865 the name was changed to Eschweiler Drahtfabrik Compagnie and the headquarters moved to Eschweiler. In 1872 there was another name change to Eschweiler AG for wire production .

In 1890 the factory stopped the puddle furnace and switched its production to the manufacture of Thomas river iron wire.

Large parts of the factory collapsed in 1906 due to major floods of the Inde and were taken over by the " Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Verein Rothe Erde " of the mining industrialist Adolph Kirdorf .

In 1953 the company was stopped and relocated to Cologne-Mülheim . Demolition work began in January 1956 after the city of Eschweiler had bought the entire premises for around DM 400,000 . On March 19, 1964, the Eschweiler bus station was put into operation on the eastern part of the site.

Significance for the company's history

In 1842 August Thyssen , who later became industrialist , was born in a residential building on the site of the wire factory .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jörg Lesczenski: August Thyssen 1842-1926 . 1st edition. Klartext , Essen 2008, p. 32
  2. ↑ See the beginnings of the Draht-Fabrik-Compagnie: Clemens Bruckner: To the economic history of the administrative district of Aachen . Writings on Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 16. Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv zu Köln, Cologne 1967, p. 300f; Lutz Hatzfeld: The beginning of the German wire industry . In: Tradition 6 (1961), p. 246ff (quoted from Jörg Lesczenski: August Thyssen 1841-1926)

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 14.4 "  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 34"  E