Lime kiln plant in the Zillertal quarry

Lime kilns Zillertal (photo 2014)

The lime kiln in the Zillertal quarry is a monument in Bergisch Gladbach .

history

The limestone quarries on the northern slope of the Quirlsberg were used extensively from around 1840. At the eastern end there is a lime kiln , which is marked with an inscription "A.Grah 1875". It refers to the owner and builder Albert Grah, who sold his lime works to Lewin Graf von Wolff-Metternich zu Lerbach in 1876 . As early as 1878 he sold the property to the Mahlberg family from Cologne, who later ran it under the name of Josef Kleefuß. The plant was shut down around 1905. The protective roofs in front of the ovens were converted by the freight forwarder Überberg as storage and garage rooms, and later replaced. At times there was a bus depot for Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg . The former lime grinder was converted into a residential building in 1910 and demolished in 1986. The lime kilns served as an air raid shelter during the Second World War . At the end of 2013, the ovens were exposed when the commercial building was demolished.

monument

The lime kiln was entered in 1991 as a monument under No. 149 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach . In particular, their testimony value for the once widespread Bergisch Gladbach lime industry and the vivid neighborhood to the quarries on Quirlsberg were highlighted.

The Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg and the Rheinische Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz , Regionalverband Köln, presented the lime kilns on June 2nd, 2015 as “Monument of the Month”. The Evangelical Hospital Bergisch Gladbach is the owner of the property and would like to expand its parking garage further west on this site . The lime kiln is included. Then the stove would also be protected from the weather from above, for example.

Individual evidence

^ Hans Leonhard Brenner : From the Alabasterberg to the Teufelsfuhrloch. The history of the lime distillery and the associated lignite mining in Bergisch Gladbach (Gladbach, Gronau, Refrath, Paffrath, Sand, Herrenstrunden) (= series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg. Vol. 69). Revised version. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-932326-69-1 , pp. 210-212.
↑ Lime kiln could disappear in the parking garage, accessed on June 3, 2015

Web links

Old lime kiln brought to light, accessed on May 31, 2015
Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., Lime Kiln Zillertal Quarry, accessed on May 31, 2015

50.99088 7.13756Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 15 ″ E

[1] Hans Leonhard Brenner : From the Alabasterberg to the Teufelsfuhrloch. The history of the lime distillery and the associated lignite mining in Bergisch Gladbach (Gladbach, Gronau, Refrath, Paffrath, Sand, Herrenstrunden) (= series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg. Vol. 69). Revised version. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-932326-69-1 , pp. 210-212.

[2] Lime kiln could disappear in the parking garage, accessed on June 3, 2015