Linden iron and steel works
The Lindener Iron and Steel Works Ltd (LES) was a German company for engineering and heavy industry in the legal form of a joint stock company . Its headquarters were in Hanover , its history began in 1872 and ended in 1968.
history
1872 in Linden , the foundry of AG Dickert established for the production of castings of all kinds. This resulted in the Linden iron and steel foundry on "Bernhard-Caspar-Weg" between 1873 and 1879 . 1887 the company was renamed in Lindener iron and steel plants AG . The Jewish banker Bernhard Caspar was a member of the supervisory board .
The large factory halls on Lindener Berg stretched from Badenstedter Strasse to Davenstedter Strasse and along Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse, which was laid out in 1919 .
Among other things, hard crushing plants as well as rotary and jaw crushers for the cement and stone industry as well as hydraulic presses were manufactured . In 1892 cast steel was added to the production range. 1920 Valves from our own production. The most important products were castings for mechanical engineering and shipbuilding , gears up to a diameter of 6 meters as well as chrome steel and "LES hard steel " for heavily stressed wear parts .
In the meantime, from 1917 onwards, the two associated directors - villas of the company at Niemeyerstrasse 16 and 17 - marked the beginning of construction on the southern side of the street there. Today the group is a listed building .
On February 28, 1932, “the end of the Linden steelworks” came as a result of the global economic crisis .
During the Second World War , the company produced armaments and was classified accordingly in the dismantling list in 1947 and also partially dismantled.
Only after the takeover in 1952 by the Group Phoenix Rheinrohr the work was resumed. Production programs for mining have now been developed and cast steel for cement and lime works as well as rolling and smelting works has been resumed. In addition, the machine, vehicle and shipbuilding industries were supplied. Although production was overall successful, production in Hanover was discontinued in 1968.
Sewer and manhole covers
In the streets of the city of Hanover, manhole covers and gullies from the company's production can still be found with different labels . They were cast with the corresponding dates in the 1890s and into the 20th century. Many of the covers have been "flattened" by road traffic until they are illegible, on some covers there are still clues to the date of the construction of the respective road section.
Undated manhole cover of the " Act.-Gesellsch. “In Waterloostraße in front of the porter's house of the Hanover Police Department
Manhole cover dated “Hanover 1899” in Maschpark , on the southeast corner of the New Town Hall , here without the addition of a stock corporation
literature
- Peter Schulze : Caspar, Bernhard. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 83, online
- Steel mills. In: History of the City of Hanover. From the beginning of the 19th century to the present. (on-line)
- Klaus Mlynek : Steelworks. In: Hanover Chronicle . From the beginning to the present. Numbers, data, facts. (on-line)
- Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Neue Episode 24 (1970), pp. 187, 218f.
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Linden iron and steel works. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 409.
- Address books of the city of Hanover , various issues
- Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 .
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References and comments
- ↑ Photo of the abbreviation on a relief above the director's villa
- ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Lindener Eisen- .... s. Literature section
- ↑ a b Note: Deviating from this, the years 1870 and 1873 are named as the founding years; Source : History of the City of Hanover ... (see section Literature ), Table 10, p. 378f. as well as running text p. 379.
- ^ "Andreas Georg Dickert" according to Hannover Chronik , p. 133.
- ↑ a b Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann: Niemeyerstraße. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover. Part 2, Vol. 10.2, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 , p. 122.
- ↑ Note: The quote may be a misspelling of Bernhard-Caspar-Straße .
- ↑ Peter Schulze: Caspar, Bernhard. s. Literature section
- ↑ Panorama photographs from 1925 of the elevated water reservoir on the Lindener Berg over the city (Figure 10); In: Andreas Urban: Cityscapes. Hanover's Modernism 1900–1939. Book accompanying the exhibition at the Historisches Museum Hannover from September 21, 2011 to February 26, 2012, with contributions by Sid Auffarth , Edel Sheridan-Quantz, Peter Stettner , Uta Ziegan, in the series of writings of the Historisches Museum Hannover. Vol. 40, ISBN 978-3-910073-41-8 , p. 36.
- ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Bernhard-Caspar-Strasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 38.
- ↑ Notification card from Lindener Eisen- und Stahlwerke, sent on July 29, 1924 postkarten-archiv.de
- ↑ Linden-Mitte. Annex directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation), status July 1, 1985, City of Hanover. Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany ... , p. 22.
- ↑ Note: It is currently unclear whether the Lindener Eisen- & Stahlwerke or another company are meant. Source: Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Klaus Mlynek (Ed.): History of the City of Hanover: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present ... , p. 447, (online)
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '51.3 " N , 9 ° 42' 0.8" E