Hoesch Museum

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Hoesch Museum (2006)

The Hoesch Museum is a museum in Dortmund that was reopened in 2005 . Housed in the historic porter's house in the Westfalenhütte , the museum shows an overview of 160 years of company history, the history of technology and the social history of steelwork, combined with the history of the city of Dortmund.

The building

The former factory entrance with the porter's house was designed by the Dortmund architects Hugo Steinbach and Paul Lutter and built from 1912 to 1914. The porter's house was used to control the presence of the steel workers and housed the works police, a detention cell, the pay office and a dining room. The current state of construction was established in the 1950s. The building has been a listed building since 1988 .

history

At the end of the 1980s, the Hoesch Museum and the Hoesch Archive were housed in the former porter's house. With the takeover of Hoesch AG by Friedrich Krupp AG , museum operations were discontinued in 1992. Thanks to the collaboration of former Hoeschians , the Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund and the Westphalian Economic Archive Foundation , the museum was able to reopen on October 23, 2005.

Temporary exhibitions

  • 2011: Steel + City. Views of the reality of the Ruhr area , photographs by Bernd Langmack and Haiko Hebig
  • 2012/13: Steel construction from Dortmund . From October 28, 2012 to March 17, 2013 (following the claim "Forum on the history of iron and steel and structural change in Dortmund"), the temporary exhibition took into account the Hoesch company as a supplier of input material and the Dortmund family-run company, Anker Schröder, which operates on a European and global scale , Dörnen , Jucho and Klönne as well as the Dortmund company Union Brückenbau in their development).
  • 2019: Hoesch maritime. From steel products, waterways and shipbuilding , August 11th to October 27th, 2019

literature

  • Karl-Peter Ellerbrock, Gisela Framke and Alfred Heese (eds.): Stahlzeit in Dortmund. Book accompanying the permanent exhibition of the Hoesch Museum, forum on the history of iron and steel and structural change in Dortmund. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-402-00396-1 (book trade edition, with a technical glossary by Dirk Wiegand).
  • Hans Wacha: Hoesch maritim. From steel products, waterways and shipbuilding. A supplementary text for the exhibition at the Hoesch Museum from August 11 to October 27, 2019. o. O., o. J. (Dortmund, 2019. With a list of the archival material and literature used)

Web links

Commons : Hoesch Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 47 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 59"  E