Friedrichshütte (Laubach)

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Friedrichshütte
City of Laubach
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 12 "  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 58"  E
Height : 166 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 55
Incorporation : December 31, 1970
Postal code : 35321
Area code : 06405
The old main building of the Friedrichshütte.

Friedrichshütte is in the district Ruppertsburg lying Gewerbesiedlungsgesellschaft that since 1970 the city of Laubach in central Hesse Gießen district belongs.

Geographical location

Friedrichshütte is located southwest of Laubach on the edge of the Hoher Vogelsberg nature park in the Horloff valley .

State road 3137 runs through the village .

history

There had been an ironworking industry in the region in earlier times; however, the Thirty Years' War brought it to a standstill. In connection with this, Count Friedrich Ernst zu Solms-Laubach founded the Friedrichshütte named after him on his territory in 1707; in the same year one began construction charcoals - blast furnace plant with attached foundry started. An iron hammer with a fresh stove was put into operation in 1709 to convert the pig iron into wrought iron .

The location was favorable: the charcoal needed for firing the plant came from neighboring Köhler village Gonterskirchen , the water supplied the Horloff and enough the sometimes very poor region offered workers, the so-called melt-goers .

In 1717 Johann Wilhelm Buderus I was entrusted with the commercial and technical management of Friedrichshütte. Although only an employee, he invested considerable resources of his own in the operation of the ironworks. In 1718 two iron hammers were added, the Hessenbrückenhammer in Wetterfeld and the Oberhammer .

On March 14, 1731, Johann Wilhelm Buderus I took over the Friedrichshütte along with the associated hammers by lease. Since then, this day has been considered the date when Buderus AG was founded. After his death in 1753, his widow Elisabetha led the company through the turmoil of the Seven Years' War , which broke out in 1756 and which hit Central Hesse badly. His grandson joined on January 2, 1807. firm JW Buderus sons together, but gave shortly after the Friedrichshütte, the origin of the Buderus family business because there was no agreement on a new lease with the count's house Solms-Laubach.

In 1870 the company was leased to Julius Römheld . The blast furnace operation was stopped and the iron smelting downsized. In the same year a charring plant was built , which was in operation until the 1920s. The Roemheld Group still operates the Friedrichshütte as an iron foundry.

In 1899 Friedrichshütte was connected to the Ruppertsburg – Friedrichshütte railway . All traffic ceased on May 31, 1959.

As early as 1904, Friedrichshütte had its own water pipeline network that was fed from an elevated tank . The main reason for this was the high water requirement, especially for the charring plant.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich August Pierer: Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past. Altenburg 1857–1865 (4) // Fresh stove.
  2. ^ History of the Friedrichshütte on the website of the Roemheld Group
  3. ↑ Railway line on LAGIS-Hessen , accessed on June 28, 2020
  4. ↑ Friedrichshütte already on the network in 1904. In: Gießener Allgemeine from September 9, 2009.

literature

  • Philipp Debus: From trade and traffic in the Ruppertsburg, Laubach and surrounding areas in earlier times. Ruppertsburg: (sn) 1958.
  • Iris Reinhardt: Buderus on Friedrichshütte. Laubacher Hefte, 1985 (3), pp. 12-21

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