Harz lime and cement works
The VEB Harzer Kalk- und Zementwerke Rübeland ( VEB HKZW ) was an association of lime works in Rübeland and Elbingerode in the former GDR . Devonian reef limestones of the Elbingeröder complex were mined in four large quarries .
history
Lime was already being mined on a large scale in the Elbingeröder complex in the 19th century .
This branch of industry was intensified during the GDR era. In the 1950s, the lime works became the Rübeland / Harz lime works division of VEB Chemische Werke Buna . The turnover rose from 338 million marks in 1951 to 1 billion marks in 1966, the number of employees was over 1000 and the annual production was 1 million tons of lime, which resulted in the largest lime producer in Central Germany.
In 1969 the lime works were merged to form VEB Harzer Kalk- und Zementwerk and subordinated to VEB Zementkombinat Dessau. At the end of the 1980s, 15,000 to 20,000 tons of raw limestone were extracted every day. The Harzer Kalk- und Zementwerke Rübeland (VEB HKZW) had been the largest lime producer in the GDR since the 1970s.
After the reunification, the company was briefly run by the Treuhand as Harz-Kalk GmbH . a. with the works Kaltes Tal, Rübeland and Hornberg was taken over by Fels-Werke . At the Rübeland / Hornberg site, around 600,000 tonnes of lime products are currently produced each year, and 1.5 million tonnes per year in two quarries in the Cold Valley.
literature
- Journal of Geological Sciences
Web links
- Gunter Ulbrich, Rüdiger Strutz: Limestone mining of Fels-Werke GmbH in Elbingerode. bergbau7 / 2007, pp. 302–306.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on google.books
- ↑ Horst Scheffler and Hartmut Knappe: Coral, lime and dark cave. The Harz - A landscape introduces itself . Issue 15/16, Harzmuseum Wernigerode 1986.
- ↑ Entry on google.books
- ↑ http://www.fels.de/ruebeland-hornberg.html
- ↑ http://www.fels.de/kaltes-tal.html