Cantilever hammer

Cantilever hammer City of Attendorn Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 20 ″  E
Residents :	40  (Jun 30, 2019)
Postal code :	57439
Area code :	02722
Location of Kraghammer in North Rhine-Westphalia
Kraghammer near Attendorn

Residential houses in Attendorn-Kraghammer

Kraghammer is a district of the city of Attendorn in the Olpe district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and has 40 inhabitants.

geography

Kraghammer is located southwest of the core town of Attendorn between Neu-Listernohl in the north and the Biggetalsperre in the south. The Ihne flows through the village and the Ihnestraße (L 539) and the Finnentrop-Olpe railway line with the Kraghammer stop.

history

At the beginning of the 19th century there was a raw steel hammer by F. Sondermann, a piece hammer by Franz Sommer and a wire hammer in krage hammer on the Ihne , from the 1840s there was also a puddling plant by Hundt, Fuchsius and Sondermann with 1 puddling furnace and three welding fires. In 1855 20 workers (with a family of 76 people) produced 9036 quintals of rod iron for 45180 thalers. In 1866 the plant had to close due to the economic crisis. Around 1880 Friedrich Kölsche acquired the plant for 6000 marks and forged there with water running small pieces of iron, especially Schüppen and plowshares . In the company address book from 1885 "Friedrich Kölsche, Pflugschaar- und Schaufelfabrik, hard coal trade and beer industry" is mentioned. On March 31, 1899 it was reported that the innkeeper and hammer mill owner F. Kölsche had also been given the post office in Kraghammer. The hammer mill, later puddle mill, was expanded, modernized and existed until 1994 when it was taken over by Drüeke & Springob GmbH, metal processing.

In the period after the railway was built, a small settlement was built around the plant. In its heyday between 1875 and 1925, the stone industry played a major role in the lower Ihnetal. Gravel, cobblestones and masonry stones were extracted from the quarries around Merklinghausen and Kraghammer, as evidenced by the many names with the job title “quarry workers” in the address books of that time.

The address book from 1929 in Kraghammer lists the names "Arens, Epe, Greitemann (3), Klein, Kölsche, Luig, Maul, Mues, Orlowski, Ruscheweig, Schmidt, Steinrücker, Teipel, Thiedig, Trautmann and Wortmann (2)". In 1936 there were 10 houses with 11 households and 53 residents in the village. The civil engineering contractor Pielhau was a member of the municipal council of Attendorn-Land and the senior official in the Attendorn office .

On 11/12 April 1945 the lower Ihnetal was occupied by the Americans. The Kraghammer train station had been bombed a short time earlier.

At the end of 1988 the place had 70 inhabitants. Today there are other companies in Kraghammer, such as Muhr & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG, Cordes-Heseler GmbH and Knebel Textilreceyling GmbH as well as the Parkhotel Wiederhold on Ihnestrasse.

From 1819 Kraghammer belonged in the Attendorn office to the Attendorn-Land community until it was incorporated into the town of Attendorn in 1969.

Religion, associations

Kraghammer belongs to the parish of Neu-Listernohl, sports and club life take place in the larger neighboring towns.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Attendorn (as of June 30, 2019) , accessed on August 18, 2019.
2. ^ Franz Sondermann: History of the iron industry in the Olpe district , Münster 1907, page 157
3. ↑ Address book for the district of Olpe with business and company registers, Siegen 1885, page 12
4. ↑ Historical diary - Attendorn city administration (Kraghammer)
5. ^ Listerscheider Schützenverein 1868 eV - History of Kraghammer
6. ↑ Official address book of the Olpe district 1928/29, section Attendorn-Land municipality, page 84
7. ↑ Official residents' register of the district of Olpe 1938, Attendorn Office, page XV
8. ^ Attendorn - Gestern und heute, Verein für Orts- und Heimatkunde Attendorn eV, No. 14 (1990), page 15/16