Harkort factory

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Harkorter land map (1926) with farm, machine factory and railroad:
1. Harkorten house , built in 1756
2. Kontorhaus, built in 1687
3. Warehouse, built in 1800 (location: Hagen open-air museum)
4. Jungfernaus, built in 1705
5. Bakery
6. Workshop
7. Barn and stable
8. Smithy
9. 600-year-old oak (family tree of the Harkort family)
10. Stables
11. Harkorten family cemetery
12. Johann Caspar Harkort machine factory
13. Schlebusch- Harkort coal railway , founded in 1820
Location of the bridge construction institute Johann Caspar Harkort in Duisburg 1892

The Harkort factory was a factory belonging to the Harkort family of hardware manufacturers in Hagen-Haspe .

history

The factory located in Hagen-Haspe on Grundschötteler Strasse near the Harkorten house was founded shortly after 1800 by Johann Caspar Harkort IV (1753-1818), the father of the Ruhr area pioneer Friedrich Harkort . In the first third of the 19th century were smaller in the facility wrought and cast iron products such as slashing , stabbing and firearms , breastplate , tools , locks , kitchen appliances and cars produced. In 1818 the company became the property of Johann Caspar Harkort V. over. This converted the company into an industrial company. Axles and wheels for the railroad have been produced since 1840 .

In 1850 Friedrich Harkort's nephew, Johann Caspar Harkort VI, took over. (1817–1896), the factory and specialized in steel and bridge construction . The factory quickly became too small and Johann Caspar Harkort VI relocated the factory ten years later to the Rhine near Duisburg - Hochfeld , where finished bridge parts were delivered from 1863.

On the occasion of the world exhibition in Vienna in 1873 , Harkort under the direction of Johann Caspar Harkort VI. the rotunda exhibition building . The steel structure had a dome height of 84 meters, the base diameter was 108 meters. In its time, the rotunda was by far the largest dome in the world . Johann Caspar Harkort V. had already built the Eastern Railway Bridge over the Danube Canal with his company in 1870 . In 1898 the Harkortstrasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt was named after him.

The Harkort factory was supplied with coal from the Trappe colliery from the Schlebusch district from 1829, the year the Harkort coal railway started operating . With the relocation of the former factory, these transports were no longer necessary. Today the railway is shut down and dismantled.

The listed machine hall , which was renovated in 1990, is the only building in the Harkort factory that has been preserved today . The carpentry's production facility has been located in the remaining building since 1994. An affiliated brewery was in the Westphalian Open-Air Museum Hagen translocated . The Harkort factory is part of the route of industrial culture .

  • Machine hall of the former Harkort factory

  • Site plan of the Johann Caspar Harkort company, Duisburg

  • Sign indicating the route of industrial culture

  • Detailed view of the sign - Johann Caspar Harkort, which continued to produce iron goods on the Harkorter Gut even after moving to Duisburg-Hochfeld in 1860. In the foreground the Schlebusch-Harkort coal railway from 1828.

  • Background: aerial view of Hasper Hütte Foreground: JC Harkort factory (1960) together with Schleebusch-Harkort coal railway (built in 1829)

Web links

Commons : Harkort'sche Fabrik  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  E