Hermannshütte (Neuwied)

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The Hermannshütte was a steelworks on the southern outskirts of Neuwied .

The Weilburger mining company Louis Vogt & Co. acquired mid-19th century on Neuwieder Rhine a site to build a steel mill. The convenient location on the Rhine , the proximity to the ore mines in the Westerwald and the other iron and steel works ( Bendorf , Sayn ) in the Neuwied area and also the low wages were the reasons for building a steel mill here. On April 27, 1857, Prince Hermann zu Wied approved the name Hermannshütte .

A plant with two blast furnaces and a rolling mill was planned . Due to financial difficulties, this was not possible, and so the hut was sold in 1859. In 1871 the plant with a blast furnace and the buildings were sold to Alfred Krupp .

From Rotterdam from Spanish was iron ore delivered by ship. At first the ships were emptied by hand, later a crane system was built, and the hut was also connected to a railway in 1873. In 1875 two blast furnaces with a capacity of 80 tons each were built. In 1887 a third blast furnace was built and the old one demolished. The pig iron was transported away by ship and rail, and the slag produced was brought to the banks of the Rhine by a narrow-gauge railway and used to fortify the bank. The place is still called Schlackenkopf in shipping today .

In 1921 454 workers and 24 civil servants (salaried employees) were employed. In the vicinity of the hut, 41 houses were built for the working-class families, the Krupp houses and a lodging house with 100 beds for single people.

Within fifty years, 1871 to 1921, 2,725,200 tons of pig iron were produced. In 1925 the hut was shut down and demolished for economic reasons. On the grounds that arose wicking works today Dyckerhoff - cement plant .

literature

  • City administration Neuwied: 300 years Neuwied. 1653-1953. A city and homeland book. For the 300th anniversary of the founding of the city. Neuwied Publishing Company, Neuwied 1953.

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 31.3 ″  E