Jünkerather union
The Jünkerath trade union (also Jünkerather Hütte ) was a traditional iron and steel works and foundry company in Jünkerath in the Eifel .
history
In 1687, Count Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid-Blankenheim founded the ironworks and leased it to the ironworker Johan de L'Eau from Ahrhütte . De L'Eau set up the first blast furnace. With the help of charcoal from the Eifel and iron ore from the area, pig iron was extracted, which was then sold.
After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794), the Counts of Manderscheid lost their claim to the Jünkerather Hütte as part of the nationalization of the manorial property. In the following decades it was mainly the Eifel families Peuchen and Poensgen who, as riding masters and owners, promoted the development of the hut and the iron industry in general. Ferdinand Poensgen (1829–1919), brother of the Secret Commerce Councilor and steel industrialist Carl Poensgen , transferred the plant to a mining law union (corporation) in 1868 and created the name “Jünkerath Union” .
When pig iron production was no longer profitable, the last blast furnace was shut down in 1898. The production had already been switched to mechanical engineering and cast iron and specialized in large format casting in particular. The pig iron and slag transport wagons from the Eifel that are used in many smelting works are well known .
Consequently, in 1936 the company name was expanded to include the Jünkerath machine factory and iron foundry trade union . Two years later, the plant was taken over by Demag , but kept its name until it was fully incorporated into the Demag Group in 1960. Further takeovers and name changes followed, and since October 2006 the foundry has been an independent GmbH under the name Ergocast Guss, based in Jünkerath.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local community Jünkerath, Jünkerather trade union (accessed on July 4, 2011)
- ↑ 275 years of work on iron, Small Chronicle of Jünkerather Maschinenfabrik GmbH , Jünkerath 1962
- ↑ Ergocast company website
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 24 ″ N , 6 ° 35 ′ 22 ″ E