Kreuztaler Hut
The Kreuztaler Hütte was an ironworks between Langenau ( Buschhütten ) and Ernsdorf or Kreuztal in the Siegen district in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
After the construction of the railway line , the hut was founded in 1865. The blast furnaces were blown for the first time in 1867, 1870 and 1900 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the smelter's board of directors tried to attract profitable metal processing companies. In 1903 a factory was built to recycle the slag sands. The operators of the three blast furnaces involved were the Müsener Hüttenbetriebe, the royal steel works Lohe ( Kredenbach ) and, from 1916, the Burgholdinghausen raw steel works. This year, the takeover by Friedrich Flick 's Charlottenhütte in Niederschelden took place . In 1917 the Kreuztaler Hütte achieved the highest annual production in its history of 130,000 t of pig iron with almost 300 workers . Ironworks director Heinrich Dresler planned to add a Siemens-Martin furnace and a rolling mill, but this could no longer be realized.
Due to declining sales of Siegerland pig iron and the global economic crisis, the Kreuztaler Hütte had to be shut down in 1928. After the shutdown, the smelter was transferred to the United Stahlwerke AG, and the building was demolished in 1930/31. In that year, the smelter's main ore supplier, the Müsener Grube Stahlberg , was shut down.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst G. Koch: patriarchs. Miners and smelters, mines and blast furnace works in Siegerland and Westerwald. 1982, p. 80
- ^ Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein (ed.): In the land of ore mines, ironworks and Hauberge - on the way with the photographer Peter Weller. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2011, p. 59.
swell
- Article There was a Kreuztaler Hütte in the Siegener Zeitung from July 28, 2010, page 8
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 7.3 " N , 7 ° 59 ′ 40.5" E