Hubertushütte Bierfeld

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The Hubertushütte Bierfeld was an ironworks in the Saarland Bierfeld . It was founded on April 23, 1757 and closed in 1868. It is one of the best preserved ironworks from the 18th and 19th centuries in the high forest .

history

After Leopold Choisy, the smelter of the Kasteler Eisenschmelze, received permission from the Electorate of Trier to set up a water- powered iron hammer in Bierfeld on September 1, 1755 , he founded a company on April 23, 1757 with Jacques Billeard and Martin Ory to operate the Kasteler Eisenschmelze and the Bierfelder Hammer. Ory ceded his shares to Billeard a year later. On April 21, 1759, the approval of Elector Johann Philipp von Walderdorff took place the smithy by a blast furnaceto complete. However, the first workers are only listed from 1763. On February 15, 1764, Leopold Choisy leased the ironworks to Johann Lorenz Nacher from Issel , who named it after the Nonnweiler parish of St. Hubertus Hubertushütte .

In the years that followed, Nacher expanded the factory with a stately home, workers' apartments and a chapel and built another form hammer with the Antoniushammer . On August 20, 1772, Johann L. Nacher bought the leased hut including the buildings, coal scrubbers, houses and hammers. Johann L. Nacher died on January 21, 1786. His three sons Johann Heinrich, Damian Joseph and Peter Joseph continued the work and enlarged it in 1794/95 by purchasing more land. Around 1800 82 workers were employed at the hut. In addition to parts made of cast iron , the Hubertushütte produced wrought iron for the nail smiths in the region and supplied the Stummsche Hütte in Abentheuer and the Mariahütte with pig iron .

Around 1819 the heirs of JL Nacher sold the Hubertushütte to the Gottbill brothers of Mariahütte ( Gottbill sel. Heirs ). Joseph Gottbill took over the management. After the death of Carl Richard Gottbill in 1836, Susanna Beulwitz, the daughter of Sebastian Joseph Gottbill and only descendant, inherited the entire property of the family. On January 26, 1844, Gottbill sel. Erben received the approval to build a cupola furnace with 3 cylinder fans in the blast furnace building. After the company had become unprofitable as a result of industrialization , the individual production parts were gradually relocated to Mariahütte and the Hubertushütte was shut down in 1868. Some of the employees emigrated to America. The last residents left the Hubertushütte site in 1890.

Duration

Between 1831 and 1831 the royal government in Trier took stock. At that time the work consisted of 2 main parts:

1. Hubertushütte with:

  • Melt, consisting of 1 blast furnace with 2 pointed bellows, 1 slag pochette with 3 punches and 1 ore roasting furnace. The bellows and stamps were operated by 2 water wheels.
  • Hammerwork, consisting of 1 large and small hammer on a shaft, 1 fresh fire and 2 pointed bellows as well as 1 warming fire with a double bellows. This hammer and the bellows were operated by 3 water wheels, the fire of the small hammer was cold.
  • Grinding mill
  • Sawmill with a water wheel.
  • Several sheds and residential buildings.

2. Antoniushammer (called Neuhammer) with:

  • Hammer mill with 1 fresh fire and 2 overturned water wheels.
  • Charcoal shed

The Hubertushütte was the subject of an archaeological investigation by the University of Mainz in 2010 and is one of the best preserved ironworks from the 18th and 19th centuries in the high forest.

literature

  • Timo Lang, Sabine Hornung: The search for prehistoric and early historical iron smelting. Methodological problems using the example of the Hubertushütte near Bierfeld, Nonnweiler community, district of St. Wendel . In: Paul Warmbrunn (Ed.): Mitteilungen des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Volume 110, Verlag des Historisches Verein der Pfalz , Speyer 2012, pp. 357–376 ( online ).
  • Christian Kolb: Recording and visualization of a steel mill in Saarland , Bachelor thesis from July 26, 2010, University of Applied Sciences Mainz (short version) . Site plan (PDF).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Kurt Birtel: The Hubertushütte in Bierfeld. In: Saarlandbilder.net. February 10, 2008, accessed July 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Bierfelder Hubertushütte is the focus of the presentation. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . February 24, 2013, accessed July 18, 2017 .