Halbach hammers

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The Halbach hammers were a hammer company in Hattingen at the beginning of industrialization .

The manufacturer Johann Arnold Halbach from Müngsten graduated from the Ruhr the old state flour mill of the city Blankenstein , which was first mentioned in the 1593rd On October 5, 1803, he received permission from the King of Prussia to demolish them and use water-powered iron hammers in their place . In 1804 Halbach had seven hammers built in five houses. The names of the hammer masters brought to Blankenstein were Kiel , Brake , Buderus and Josua vom Stein from Remscheid and Schubeis from Schwelm . Carl Friedrich Gethmann became managing director . Halbach produced steel for axes , which had a good reputation.

Because of economic difficulties in 1828 the hammers were pawned. After the compensation of the creditors, Gustav Halbach continued the work on a small scale from 1839. In 1874, his nephew and heir George Halbach dissolved the company and sold the hammers. Friedrich Lohmann bought it for 18,000 gold marks and leased it to Karl Kalthoff .

In the following decades, Kalthoff manufactured spades, shovels, frying pans and later also wagon axles, wheel tires and puddle hooks . Together with the former tobacco dealer and businessman Hugo Wengeler , he acquired a property in Witten in 1902 . Wengeler & Kalthoff started production there on June 1, 1906 . The old hammers were shut down in 1906 after over a hundred years of work. They were demolished in 1913. Only the office building remained standing.

Today the house is the show point of the Märkische Technikstraße and the seat of the "Rowing Club Blankenstein eV" . The street is called "To the seven hammers" .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 38.8 "  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 33.4"  E