Duke Juliushütte

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Duke Juliushütte
City of Langelsheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 1 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 54 ″  E
Height : approx. 260 m
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Incorporated into: Branch field
Postal code : 38685
Area code : 05326
View of Herzog Juliushütte from the Granetalsperre dam; in the background Goslar-Baßgeige and Hahndorf am Salzgitter-Höhenzug
View of Herzog Juliushütte from the Granetalsperre dam; in the background Goslar-Baßgeige and Hahndorf am Salzgitter-Höhenzug

Herzog Juliushütte is the name of a steelworks founded in 1575 and the settlement that was built not far. Today both belong to the town of Langelsheim and are located in the Astfeld district .

At the exit of the Grane from the Harz valley of the same name , the Brunswick Duke Julius had a steelworks and settlement built in the 16th century. Together with the Frau-Sophien-Hütte and the Okeraner Frau-Marien-Hütte , metal extraction from Rammelsberg ores was concentrated in these three huts in the 16th century. The smelter existed until 1967 and processed ores containing lead , zinc and rare metals, etc. a. from the Rammelsberg near Goslar . Most of the hut's old buildings were demolished in 1970. Today only rare metals such as arsenic , germanium and indium are produced at the site.

At the Granetalsperre waterworks near Herzog Juliushütte

The Granetalsperre lies above the settlement . It was built from 1966 to 1969, is operated by Harzwasserwerke GmbH and serves exclusively to supply drinking water. In the past, there was also a train station on the Neuekrug-Hahausen-Goslar railway line in the settlement .

The ironworks and the Herzog Juliushütte settlement formed a municipality in the Gandersheim district , which was incorporated into the Astfeld municipality on January 1, 1970.

Sources and literature

  • Griep, Der Landkreis Goslar , Elm-Verlag, 1988, Cremlingen
  • Torsten Schröpfer, Fundgrube - interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy, Oberharzer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV (publisher), Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0
  • R. Roseneck (Ed.), Der Rammelsberg, Verlag Goslarsche Zeitung, Goslar, 2001, ISBN 3-9804749-4-1

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the city of Langelsheim