Halbachhammer (Fulerum)

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Halbachhammer Building

The Halbachhammer in the Fulerum district of Essen is the relocated remnant of the medieval Fickynhütte from Weidenau an der Sieg . Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach had him transferred to the nightingale valley within sight of the Margarethenhöhe and gave him to the city. Today the Halbachhammer is a technical and economic historical monument, a branch of the Ruhr Museum and part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

history

Origin in Siegerland

The Fickynhütte was first mentioned in a document in 1417. In its heyday around 1820, the plant produced 240 tons of bar iron annually , a semi-finished product that could be transported over long distances and further processed. It was thus one of the most productive in the Siegerland . Around 1900 it was closed for economic reasons and dismantled and cataloged for an industrial exhibition planned in Düsseldorf in 1914 , but not realized because of the First World War . The plant was a typical hammer hut , in which all work steps such as refining , forging and hammering took place under one roof and wrought iron was produced. In addition to the actual hammer building there were at the origin in Weidenauer district Ficken cabins ( 50 ° 53 '24.4 "  N , 8 ° 1' 33.6"  O ) living and working houses bearings for the pig iron, the coal and the half or . Finished products. Nothing is left of the buildings there today. In its place is the Sieghütte driveway to Hüttentalstraße .

Relocation and new business in Essen

Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach acquired the dismantled hammer building in 1915. In 1935 and 1936 he had it ready for operation at its current location in the Nachtigallental between the Essen districts of Fulerum and Margarethenhöhe , renamed it and donated it to the city. The inauguration took place on November 9, 1936. Since then it has served the Ruhr Museum as an open-air facility. Today the system consists of the forge for the forge, the hammer mill with the 300 kilogram hammer head and the sizing and stretching track for forming the bar. There is also the wind turbine with two bellows driven by a water wheel. The water power is provided by a reservoir of the Kesselbach (formerly: Kreuzenbecke), a tributary of the Emscher . For the coal production was up one in the 1960s charcoal pile up. The valley of the Kesselbach was created in 1907 by Margarethe Krupp as the local recreation area named after her, Margarethenhöhe, and donated to the city of Essen.

In 1993 the Halbachhammer was placed under monument protection, but it was not operationally safe due to decay, dismantling and lack of maintenance. From 1994 to 1998 the complex was extensively restored as part of the Essen Consensus (connection of social, monument and urban development tasks with labor market policy measures) and can be viewed as a branch of the Ruhr Museum in the summer months. There are regular demonstrations of the hammer operation between April and November.

Views

Web links

Commons : Halbachhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Hermann Böttger: On the huts , 1949
  2. Hermann Böttger: The story of the iron hammer in the nightingale valley near Essen , 1936
  3. ^ Günter Dick: Show where the hammer was , Siegener Contributions to Regional History, Vol. 13-14 (2008-2009), Pages 177-203

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 43 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 12.2"  E