Westfalia Ironworks Union
The Eisenhütte Westfalia trade union was the first ironworks in the Wethmar district of Lüner and the only one that gained national importance. The company later achieved economic importance as a mining supplier worldwide .
In 1826 Caspar Diederich Wehrenbold (1795-1851) founded the ironworks in the legal form of a union as the first industrial company in Altlünen and built the first company buildings near the Lippe . At that time, the river was still used for shipping and served to transport the lawn iron ore found in the Lippetal .
In 1876, however, iron production was stopped again, and the company had increasingly switched to iron processing .
Typical products were cast-iron ovens, rails, pumps and, from 1930, increasingly mining technology . From 1960 also products for tunnel and tunnel construction . An important engineer was Wilhelm Löbbe , the inventor of the "Löbbe plane ".
The festival magazine for the 125th anniversary in 1951 was illustrated by the painter Hubert Berke . In it he drew the canteen, machine shops, people at work and captured the working world with filigree lines. The originals of these pictures have been in the Museum of the City of Lünen since 2010
In 1991 the Eisenhütte Westfalia trade union merged with the Klöckner-Becorit company in Castrop-Rauxel to form Westfalia Becorit Industrietechnik (WBI) .
In 1995, the three traditional mining suppliers Halbach & Braun Maschinenfabrik and Hermann Hemscheidt Maschinenfabrik from Wuppertal and Westfalia Becorit Industrietechnik merged to form Deutsche Bergbau Technik (DBT). DBT was a subsidiary of Ruhrkohle AG (RAG).
In May 2007, DBT was taken over by Bucyrus International , Inc., based in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , for 559 million euros , which in turn was absorbed by Caterpillar in 2011 for 8.6 billion dollars .
The only remaining operational building of the original Westfalia ironworks is the listed Westfalia canteen on Hüttenallee.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Working Group for Environment and Home e. V., monuments and buildings worth preserving in Lünen
- ↑ RAG sells DBT mining machinery ops to US co Bucyrus for 559 mln eur , Forbes.com
- ↑ Bucyrus Announces Closing and Financing of DBT GmbH Acquisition ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bucyrus International, Inc. website
- ↑ cnbc.com , CNBC : Caterpillar to Buy Bucyrus in $ 8.6 Billion Deal , November 15, 2010
- ↑ www.caterpillar.com (PDF; 52 kB), Caterpillar completes acquisition of Bucyrus , July 8, 2011
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 16.1 ″ E