Hasper hut

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Harkorten plant from Niederhaspe level crossing (1910)
Sign in memory of Hasper's industrial history
Ladle and chimney, object in memory of Hasper's industrial history
Description of the Hasper Hütte on the Route of Industrial Heritage
Locomotive 20 that used to run on the Hasper Hütte and the Hasper Kohlenbahn. Today owned by the Selfkantbahn small railway museum

Hasper Hütte is the name of a rolling and puddling mill that was founded in the Westphalian municipality of Haspe in 1847 and employed up to 7,000 people in its heyday before it was shut down between 1972 and 1982.

In 1929 the municipality of Haspe was merged with the neighboring town of Hagen , and Hasper Hütte established Hagen's position as an important center of the German steel industry in the 20th century. The plant had four blast furnaces , a Siemens-Martin , a Thomas and an electric steelworks, as well as a sheet metal and profile rolling mill . The maximum extent of the Hasper Hütte facilities extended over around 4 km between the Hagen districts of Westerbauer and Wehringhausen . Over 50 locomotives from various manufacturers and gauges were used on the facilities of the hut and the Schlebusch-Harkorter coal railway (also known as the “Hasper Kohlenbahn” or “Silscheder Kohlenbahn”) . Today there is little evidence of the former existence of the Hasper Hütte.

The huge yellow-brown cloud of smoke rising from the Thomaskonverter settled in the entire district and was called Hasper Gold by the residents .

history

In 1829 the Schlebusch- Harkort coal railway was built to supply the Harkort factory . Coal and other raw materials were later fed to Hasper Hütte via this railway line, and slag was removed.

The Markana Hut ( 51 ° 20 ′ 45.3 ″ N , 7 ° 25 ′ 39.3 ″ E ), a forerunner of the Hasper Hut, was built in 1836, but was later closed due to a lack of raw materials.

Hasper entrepreneurs founded the limited partnership Lehrkind, Falkenroth and Compagnie in 1847 - later Hasper Hütte - for the production of puddle , iron freshness and rolling mill products . Johann Caspar Harkort V. was also involved in the consortium . The operating license was issued in 1848 by the Dortmund Oberbergamt .

In 1849 operations began and it was connected to the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line . The coal railway was connected to the Hasper hut in 1858. The company was converted into Falkenroth, Kocher and Co. in 1863 and the production of railway wheels began. The Markana hut ceased operations in 1873 as a result of the economic crisis .

The hut was connected to the Ennepetalbahn in Harkorten station in 1876 and the Schlebusch-Harkorter coal railway switched to steam locomotive operation.

The economic crisis also hit Hasper Hütte in 1881. The operation was in the limited partnership & Co. Hasper iron and steel warrior converted. Another conversion took place in 1894 to Hasper Eisen- und Stahlwerk Aktiengesellschaft .

In 1900 the coal transport via the Schlebusch-Harkorter coal railway was stopped. In 1905 the coal railway was operated by Hasper Hütte, the hut was connected to the power grid. In 1911 the slag was transported over the coal railway to the Enerke dump.

The expansion was provisionally completed in 1913 with the commissioning of the fourth blast furnace. In 1914, the puddle works had been closed for around 15 years and were replaced by Thomasstahl and Siemens-Martin steel works .

During the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923, the smelter merged with the Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein to form Klöckner-Werke AG under the direction of Peter Klöckner , who had been the smelter's supplier since 1889 and a member of the supervisory board since 1899 .

When the Second World War broke out in 1939, women and forced laborers were employed, and armaments were produced at the smelter . From 1940 prisoners of war from the camp in Hemer were also used . From 1942 the hut operated a prisoner-of-war camp , a police prison and a penal camp . Here forced laborers, prisoners of war, Soviet workers were mongrels , half Jews and "as versippt Jewish " housed classified German. In 1945, eleven Soviet prisoners were shot. After the end of the war, the hut was allowed to resume operations in December 1945 with the approval of the occupying forces.

In the process of deconcentration was the most February 12, 1947 smelter hasp AG founded.

After the Klöckner Group had built a steelworks in Bremen in 1957 , Hasper Hütte's production was relocated there in the years to come.

In 1965 the Schlebusch-Harkorter coal railway ceased operations.

Hasper Hütte lost its independence in 1971 and became a branch of Klöckner Hütte Bremen . The last tapping took place on July 29, 1972.

Then the shutdown and relocation of production began. In 1982 production was stopped. A few employees of the plant fire brigade and the company health insurance fund remained. The formal completion of the renovation measures in Hagen - Haspe was in 2010. The facilities in the hut have been demolished. On the former site there are now residential buildings ( Hüttenplatz ), shops, small industry and, since 1990, the Hasper SV district sports facility . Parts of the vehicle inventory of the Hasper Hütte and the coal railway were sold to the Small Railway Museum Selfkantbahn when the hut was closed (as early as 1970) .

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Web links

Commons : Hasper Hütte  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Klöckner & Co AG: Milestones 1906–2006 (anniversary magazine) .
  2. ^ Heinz Potthoff : collapse and reconstruction. A contribution to the history of company co-determination in the Ruhr from 1945 to 1947 , in: trade union monthly books , March 1955, pp. 129–137, here p. 136. (PDF)
  3. ↑ Jens Stubbe: Mourning flags and a farewell in black suits from Hasper Hütte 40 years ago . ( wp.de [accessed on November 8, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Urban redevelopment measure Hagen - Haspe. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
  5. ↑ selfkantbahn.de: Dampflok 19 Dampflok 20 Dampflok 21 , accessed on August 29, 2011

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28.6 "  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 41.4"  E