Headquarters of the Gutehoffnungshütte

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Former headquarters of the GHH - today the headquarters of Radio NRW

The former headquarters of Gutehoffnungshütte (GHH) on Essener Strasse in Oberhausen is now the headquarters of Radio NRW .

After its transformation into a stock corporation in 1873, the GHH gradually moved its corporate headquarters from Sterkrade to Essener Strasse in what was then the north of the city of Oberhausen, where the most important operating units (blast furnaces and rolling mills) were also concentrated. In 1875 the "Centralbureau" of Gutehoffnungshütte, a joint stock association for mining and smelting, was built in the historicizing style. A staircase in the style of the Tuscan High Renaissance in the spacious hall of the building is regarded as the “visiting card of the corporate headquarters”.

In the course of the expansion of the group in the following decades, the space required for the administration increased. In 1905/06 the building for the mine administration of the GHH was built as Head Office II in the immediate vicinity.

Former mine administration of the GHH

In connection with the main warehouse designed by Peter Behrens , Head Office III was built on the opposite side of the street in 1921/25.

After the group was unbundled in 1945, Rumpf-GHH moved its administration back to Sterkrade. The buildings on Essener Straße were initially taken over by Hüttenwerke Oberhausen (HOAG) and later by the Thyssen group. Soon after the steel industry finally withdrew from Oberhausen, the administration building was used for another purpose: it has been the headquarters of Radio NRW for several years.

The Ruhr Regional Association has included the former GHH administration in the route of industrial culture.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Hans-Josef Joest: Pioneer in the Ruhr area. Gutehoffnungshütte - from the oldest coal and steel company in Germany to the largest mechanical engineering group in Europe . Stuttgart 1982, p. 87.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '13.9 "  N , 6 ° 52' 14.1"  E