Friedrichshütte (Bebra)

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The Friedrichshütte is an over 275 year old former copper smelter in Bebra - Iba in the district of Rotenburg in northeastern Hesse

Landgrave Friedrich I of Hesse, who also married King of Sweden , had the Friedrichshütte built as a copper smelting plant in 1732.

Ovens

After its completion in 1735, like the already existing Richelsdorfer Hütte, it had a total of three ovens. It was a matter of two "Krummöfen", which were used for raw melting, and one "cooking stove". But as early as 1756 and 1763, a curved furnace was converted into a so-called "high furnace" and another new blast furnace was built , so that two blast furnaces were now available for raw smelting. The Krummofen was used to separate the copper stone produced by the raw smelting into black copper and trace stone . The cooking stove, with which the copper was produced in its purest form from track stones and the black copper, remained unchanged.

Production process

The extracted copper slate was first "roasted" on an open fire in order to remove existing impurities - such as B. Sulfur - to eliminate, as well as reduce its volume. This process takes about 5 weeks. Then the raw melting took place in the blast furnaces. The copper stone obtained in this way was then roasted 6 to 7 times again in the brick roasting facilities. The separation into black copper and track stones then took place in the curved furnace. The conclusion was the “Garmachen”, the manufacture of the end product.

production

In 1787, 1,000 quintals of copper were produced at the Friedrichshütte, which resulted in sales of around 30,000 Reichstalers . The raw material used for this was 48,000 quintals of copper slate as well as 25,000 fathoms of wood and 750 loads of coal. (1 fathom = 3.39 m³, 1 fuder = 3.12 m³). According to the warehouse, item and tax book of the municipality of Iba, the net profit of the plant amounted to 14,000 thalers from 1781 - a considerable profit compared to the construction costs of 9,451 thalers. At that time, 20 people were directly employed at the Friedrichshütte. Added to this were the more than 600 miners in the 20 shafts of the plant and the not inconsiderable number of farmers who carried out the transports.

Others

The Brothers Grimm stayed at the Friedrichshütte more often. Wilhelm Grimm in particular often spent a long time with his wife Dortchen in the hut with his brother-in-law, the Bergrat Friedrich Karl von Fulda. So here, in a picturesque setting, the famous Grimm fairy tale “ The clever people ” was created.

In 1840, the chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen published two reports on his investigations into the furnace gases from the copper shale furnace.

Today the Friedrichshütte is a popular restaurant for excursions.

history

  • 1732–1735 Landgrave Friedrich, who married the King of Sweden, had the Friedrichshütte built as a copper smelting plant.
  • 1770 Friedrichshütte employs 700 people and produces 1,000 quintals of copper every year.
  • 1830 Close ties between the Brothers Grimm and Friedrichshütte. The then hut manager Fulda was a brother-in-law of Wilhelm Grimm.
  • 1837 Hüttenleiter Fulda offers the Grimms, who belong to the Göttingen Seven, the Friedrichshütte as asylum. You had previously protested against the repeal of the state constitution in the Kingdom of Hanover and were dismissed.
  • 1866 Incorporation of Hesse into Prussia .
  • 1873–1874 The Friedrichshütte is sold to the Fleitmann & Witte company in Iserlohn.
  • 1886 shutdown of the company.
  • around 1900 Several attempts to resume fail. The facility is abandoned and expired.
  • 1919 The master miller Ludwig Trieselmann acquires the Friedrichshütte. Contrary to the sales requirement to demolish the buildings, he manages to preserve and restore the remains.
  • 1920 Founding of the "Friedrichshütte" restaurant.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Bunsen: About the furnace gases of the copper shale furnace to the Friedrichshütte near Rotenburg . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff (Ed.): Annals of Physics and Chemistry . 126 (Pogg. Ann. 50), no. 5 . Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1840, p. 81–93 , doi : 10.1002 / andp.18401260506 ( online at Gallica , Bibliothèque nationale de France).
  2. ↑ Robert Bunsen: About the furnace gases of the copper shale furnace in Friedrichshütte near Rotenburg . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff (Ed.): Annals of Physics and Chemistry . tape 126 , no. 8 . Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1840, p. 637–652 , doi : 10.1002 / andp.18401260806 ( online at Gallica , Bibliothèque nationale de France).

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '59.4 "  N , 9 ° 50' 30.2"  E