Franz Dinnendahl

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Franz Dinnendahl

Franz Dinnendahl (born August 20, 1775 in Horst ; † August 15, 1826 in Rellinghausen ) built the first steam engine in Essen in 1803 and is considered one of the pioneers of industrialization in the Ruhr area and the steam engine in Germany.

Life

Dinnendahl was born as the son of a miller from Horst bei Steele . As a teenager he worked as a cattle herder and then earned his living as a coal pusher for two years. On the advice of his uncle, he learned the carpentry trade. This is where his enthusiasm for technology was born. When he was commissioned to build a machine house out of wood, he was more interested in the machine than in the house.

From 1801 to 1803 he designed and built the first steam engine for the Wohlgemuth colliery near Kupferdreh . The steam engine was important for the coal mining industry in the Ruhr area. She found the carrier as well as a pump used that the in the bottom soles promoted penetrating groundwater to day and only allowed the coal mining in deeper layers.

Former Dinnendahl factory in Essen-Bergerhausen

Dinnendahl moved from Altendorf an der Ruhr to Essen in 1807 . There, with financial support from Helene Amalie Krupp, founded a machine factory in Trentelgasse. There he manufactured a steam engine for the first time, which was used as a hoisting machine at the United Sälzer & Neuack colliery . The transport of the 15,000 pound boiler from Trentelgasse to the colliery west of what was then Essen's urban area turned out to be problematic on September 13, 1808, because the boiler did not fit through the Limbeck gate of the still existing city wall. So the plaster had to be removed for it. The machine remained in operation at the colliery until 1860 and was kept as a reserve until 1891.

With up to 60 employees in the small town at the time, he was an important employer. In 1818 he introduced gas lighting in his factory that he had developed with the pharmacist Franz Wilhelm Flashoff. Dinnendahl rose from the son of a farmer to a manufacturer. As a now respected member of the urban bourgeoisie, he became a city councilor in 1819. In February 1821 his factory burned down. Dinnendahl therefore relocated it to his foundry in today's Bergerhausen (later: Westfalia Dinnendahl Gröppel AG ).

The technician, however, lacked commercial skills and made losses in the mining business. In addition, with the Gutehoffnungshütte and Friedrich Harkort's factory , there were other manufacturers of steam engines. So he died in 1826 impoverished in an economically difficult situation. His son Röttger Wilhelmm took over the foundry in Bergerhausen. The ironworks founded together with his brother Johann Dinnendahl in 1819 and 1820 in Mülheim an der Ruhr is the forerunner of the Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte .

Honors and commemorations

Dinnendahl was buried in the cemetery in Rellinghausen. In 1936 he was given an honorary grave by the city of Essen in the southwest cemetery .

The main tax office was built on his former premises at Trentelgasse 4 in Essen in 1907/08, with a memorial plaque on it. In 2006 the building was acquired by a private investor, extensively renovated and given the name "Villa Dinnendahl". Today there is a private academy for health care here. Dinnendahlstrasse in Bergerhausen and Huttrop was named after Franz Dinnendahl in 1920. In addition, the Franz-Dinnendahl-Realschule in Kray and the Franz-Dinnendahl-Realschule in Bochum - Langendreer , bear his name.

literature

  • Hedwig Behrens: Mechanic Franz Dinnendahl . Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, Cologne 1970
  • Fredebeul & Koenen: Essener Contributions - Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen Volume 26 . 1905, p. 5-52 .
  • Ulrike Laufer: They brought the steam engine to the Ruhr - the brothers Franz (1775–1826) and Johann Dinnendahl (1790–1849) . In: Horst A. Wessel (ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs: pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-645-2 .
  • Erwin Dickhoff: Essen heads . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 81, 82 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Dupke: Essen. History of a city . Ed .: Ulrich Borsdorf. Peter Pomp Verlag, Bottrop, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89355-236-7 , p. 285, 286 .
personal data
SURNAME Dinnendahl, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Designer of the first steam engine in the Ruhr area
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH horst
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1826
Place of death Rellinghausen