Society for conveyor systems Ernst Heckel

The Ernst Heckel conveyor system company was founded by Ernst Heckel in Saarbrücken in 1905 .

history

Ernst Heckel had his father and his brother Georg Julius (1856-1928) Drahtseilfabrik continued and successfully their products in the mechanical range promotion of Saarland and Lorraine mines introduced. In the new company, Ernst Heckel expanded the field of activity to include a wide variety of transport and conveyor systems. The new designs developed with the support of Karl Glinz and others soon included transport, shunting and loading systems of all kinds. The company produced material ropeways , funiculars , cable and chain conveyors, conveyor belt systems, large storage and loading systems, shunting systems, etc. It developed and produced the first ski promotion .

In 1927, due to financial difficulties, the company had to be sold to Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG , Cologne-Mülheim, the then largest wire rope manufacturer in Europe, which in turn belonged to the Belgian-Luxembourg Arbed group. Then it also began to produce cable cars for the tourist sector, such as the Schauinsland cable car near Freiburg im Breisgau , the world's first circulating cable car that was designed exclusively for passenger transport and also caused a sensation with its large cabins for 24 people.

The company had factories on the Saar and Achern (Baden) and, at times, technical offices in Essen, Berlin, Paris, London and Charleroi. It was active in 33 countries on five continents, where it built several thousand transport, loading and shunting systems as well as cable cars.

Felten & Guilleaume Carlswerk AG had acquired Bleichert-Transportanlagen GmbH in 1932, the rescue company for Adolf Bleichert & Co. , which went bankrupt as a result of the collapse of the German banking system , and in 1933 J. Pohlig AG , Cologne, both of which were important cable car manufacturers. After the Second World War , it formed the PHB Pohlig-Heckel-Bleichert Vereinigte Maschinenfabriken AG, Cologne, in 1962 from J. Pohlig AG, the Gesellschaft für Förderanlagen Ernst Heckel and the remnants of the Bleichert transport systems that remained in West Germany.

This company was merged with Weserhütte AG in 1980 to form PHB Weserhütte , which was one of the leading suppliers of machines and systems for the extraction and processing of raw materials, such as rope excavators and crawler cranes. In 1987 this division had to be closed due to high losses. However, Orenstein & Koppel (O & K) acquired the cable car department in Cologne in order to continue the current order to convert the Schauinsland cable car . This company, now known as PWH Anlagen und Systeme GmbH , not only completed the renovation of the Schauinsland cable car, but also built the cable car to the Brevent in Chamonix and the Rofan cable car in Maurach am Achensee, as well as various material cable cars. O & K belonged to the Hoesch Group , which was taken over by Friedrich Krupp AG . Krupp integrated PWH Anlagen und Systeme GmbH into its Krupp Industrietechnik GmbH , which then appeared as Krupp Fördertechnik GmbH . The cable car area was given up, however, and technical cable car drawings were sold to Doppelmayr . This ended the remnants of the tradition of the three major cable car manufacturers.

Cableways

The cable cars built by the Gesellschaft für Förderanlagen Ernst Heckel include:

• 1922 Oberweißbacher Bergbahn - broad-gauge funicular railway with a freight platform for the transport of standard-gauge railway cars
• ca.1925 Material ropeway for the transport of salt from Hordio to Hafun , Italian Somaliland , 27.5 km long, of which around 14 km across the lagoon
• 1930 Schauinslandbahn - the world's first large cable car
• 1933 Cableway Xóm Cúc – Ban Naphao , Vietnam
• 1933 Téléphérique de Rochebrune - Megève - Mont de Rochebrune aerial tramway ( 45 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 48 ″  E )
• 1935 Funiculaire de Montmartre - renovation of the Montmartre funicular
• 1935 Téléphérique du Pibeste - aerial tramway near Lourdes to the Pic Pibeste ( 43 ° 3 ′ 5,7 ″  N , 0 ° 4 ′ 50 ″  W )
• 1935 Cable for the Boule de neige in Gourette - the first ski lift in the Pyrenees
• 1936 Téléphérique de Pleney - Pendelbahn Morzine - Pleney ( 46 ° 10 '12 "  N , 6 ° 41' 33"  O )
• 1936 Téléphérique St. Gervais - Bettex - aerial tramway Saint-Gervais-les-Bains - Le Bettex ( 45 ° 52 ′ 29.3 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 9 ″  E )
• 1955 Caracas cable car - large cable car in four sections - long the largest of its kind in the world
• 1960 Cable car in the German-French Garden in Saarland
• 1963 Eibsee cable car to the Zugspitze (started as Heckel, ended after merger as PHB)
• 1964 Jasper Skytram on Whistlers Peak in Jasper, Alberta, Canada
• 1973 Kahlenbergbahn between Rohrbach and Hassel in St. Ingbert , Saarland , ceased operations in 1995

Individual evidence

1. ^ Advertisement of the company in: The Schauinsland Railway. Festschrift for the opening of the Schauinsland cable car on Thursday, July 17th in the year of the Rhineland liberation in 1930.
2. ↑ René Arripe, Gourette d'hier à aujourd'hui, Laruns 1996, p. 58.
3. ↑ Lift database - lifts in the world . In: www.seilbahntechnik.net . Retrieved October 31, 2016.
4. ↑ Jasper SkyTram. Retrieved October 10, 2016 .