Felbeckerhammer

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Felbeckerhammer
City of Remscheid
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 252 m above sea level NN
Felbeckerhammer (Remscheid)
Felbeckerhammer

Location of Felbeckerhammer in Remscheid

Felbeckerhammer was a residential place and in Remscheid (until 1975 in Hückeswagen ) in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). The place had been an industrial site since the 19th century and was flooded when the Wuppertalsperre was dammed from 1982.

Location and transport links

Felbeckerhammer was located in southeastern Remscheid in the statistical district of Engelsburg in the Lennep district in the Wupperaue at the mouth of the Feldbach north of Kräwinklerbrücke . The river formed the city boundary to Radevormwald here . Other neighboring towns were DÖRPERHEHE , Kräwinkel , Niederfeldbach , Nagelsberg and Müllersberg on what is now Remscheider and Honsberg , Friedrichstal , Heidersteg , Kräwinkel and Dörpe on Radevormwalder urban area. The place was on the route of the Wuppertal Railway , which crossed the Feldbach above the place on a high steel truss bridge.

history

The history of the place began on March 12, 1734, when Peter Clarenbach the Younger received a concession to operate an iron hammer . He built the hammer mill at the mouth of the Feldbach in the Wupper, which was called Velbecke ( Vel : form of field , Beck , Becke : Low German form of Bach ) in the middle of the 18th century . Because of this, the hammer mill was called Feldbacher or Felbecker Hammer . In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen .

At the beginning of the 19th century, the hammer mill had a five-meter overshot water wheel with a 16-foot incline, which transferred the water power to a drop hammer for the production of octagonal iron rods. In 1810 it is still owned by Clarenbach's heirs . In 1815/16 a resident lived in the village. The facility passed into the ownership of a Johann 'Mühlinghaus and a Johann Daniel Korthaus zu Nagelsberg until 1826 .

In 1832 Felbeckerhammer belonged under the name Velbeckshammer to the Lüdorfer Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had a factory or mill and two agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, two residents lived in the village, both of whom were Protestant.

In 1838 a carded yarn spinning mill was set up in the buildings by a Ludwig Schüssler . A three-story half-timbered cloth factory is mentioned in 1839. The cloth factory burned down in 1871, at the same location, on behalf of Ludwig Schüssler , the Lennep builder Julius Schmidt built a new brick factory that had a water wheel with a diameter of eight meters and a 50 hp steam engine to drive the spinning machines. In 1873 the Hager company bought into the company . When a new laundry started operations in 1876 and a new dye works in 1880/81 , a dispute arose over wastewater disposal , as a result of which the court ordered cleaning in a sewage basin.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , two houses with 17 inhabitants are given for 1885. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had two houses with 17 inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and 14 inhabitants.

In 1891 a new wool warehouse was built, but in 1897 the Felbeck hammer, now owned by Carl Hager , burned down again; The fire ruin was then acquired by an Otto Hurschmann zu Rittershausen and then used by small businesses, including a tool factory. The next owner from 1909 was Hermann Matthey from Barmen , who set up a new four hundred pound steam hammer on site . Gustav Grimm acquired the plant in 1915 and on May 9, 1924 also applied for the permission to rebuild the burned down Felbeck hammer and convert it into a steelworks. In the years that followed, the company specialized in the production of iron / steel composites for machine knives and ice skate blades . The latter were also the basis for great sporting successes: The Dutchwoman Sjoukje Dijkstra received the gold medal in figure skating on ice skates from the Gustav Grimm company at the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 .

At the end of the 1960s, the Felbeck hammer was equipped with five steam hammers weighing between four and 30 quintals, three annealing furnaces and two friction screw presses. In 1973 Gustav Grimm died , who ran the plant with 20 employees until the end. In the course of the North Rhine-Westphalian local government reform (§ 21 Düsseldorf Law ), the eastern area around Bergisch Born with the place Felbeckerhammer was separated from the city of Hückeswagen on January 1, 1975 and incorporated into the city of Remscheid.

The place and the factory were demolished in 1975 as the last factory in Wuppertal to create the storage space for the Wuppertal dam.

literature

  • Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid. Volume 5: From Blombach to Eschbach. Buchhandlung R. Schmitz, Remscheid 2006, ISBN 3-9800077-6-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Günther Schmidt: Hammer and Kotten research in Remscheid.
  2. ↑ a b c d e The Felbecker Hammer on wupperindustrie.de (accessed: January 17, 2015)
  3. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  6. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.