Louis Eilers steel construction

Letterhead with an engraved bird's eye view of the company premises with track systems, around 1900

Louis Eilers workshop 1871 1901 , in the background the water tower in the (today's) district of Ledeburg

Administration building on Entenfangweg 2

The historic water tower on the Hanover – Hamburg railway line

Turntable for the tracks of the narrow-gauge railway in front of the so-called VW hall

Volkswagen AG, Eilers warehouse

The Louis Eilers Stahlbau GmbH & Co. was an internationally exporting iron and steel company in Hannover .

history

The family business emerged from a workshop founded by Louis Eilers in 1871 and was taken over by Egon Engelbrecht in 1983 . 1985 EEI Engelbrecht Eilers Industrie GmbH was swept into the bankruptcy of Hanomag .

Buildings (incomplete)

The Louis Eilers company supplied large iron structures for bridge, building, mining, water, mast and container construction to Europe, America, Asia and New Zealand. Outstanding project buildings were among others the

• Railway bridge to the Glocksee gas station in Hanover (see Imperial-Continental-Gas-Association )
• 1891–1892: Market hall in Hanover (based on plans by Paul Rowald )
• Iron constructions of the turning shop building and locomotive assembly hall of Hanomag
• Platform halls, e.g. B. for Hanover Central Station and Leipzig Central Station
• 1913–1920: Hochdonn railway high bridge over the Kiel Canal
• around 1915: Mittelland Canal Bridge over the Leine near Seelze
• from 1925: Swing bridge in Kappeln over the Schlei
• 1925/1926: Sternbrücke in Altona
• 1931–1933: Combined rail and road Elbe bridge Tangermünde (river superstructures destroyed in 1945, approach bridges demolished in 2003)
• 1931–1935: Bridge over the Little Belt near Lillebæltsbro (using Peiner girders ; first bridge construction by a German-Danish consortium)
• Motorway bridge over the Werra valley near Hedemünden
• Lindingö Bridge in Stockholm
• Transporter bridge across the port of Rio de Janeiro (1915–1935)

Usage concept Mobile Worlds Hanover

After the purchase of the company premises by EilersWerkebesitzgesellschaft mbH, the owners are planning, among other things, "a mixture of adventure museum, science and research, trade and trade as well as [a] event center on the subject of mobility" for the subsequent use of the historical factory premises. Starting in 2013, the first visitors should be able to see permanent and temporary exhibitions on industrial history or two- and four-wheeled oldtimers , which come from the Stade Technology and Transport Museum , which was closed at the end of 2012 .

literature

• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Eilers, Louis. 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. 107 (online at Google books )
• Eilers. In: Hannover Chronik , pp. 132, 140, 151, 177, 284 (online at Google books ) .
• Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.): History of the city of Hanover. From the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Numbers, data, facts. Pp. 374, 379, 381, 558, 850; (online at Google Books )
• Louis Eilers (ed.): Factory for iron building and bridge construction. Hanover 1907.
• Louis Eilers (ed.): Bridge construction. Hanover- Herrenhausen undated (around 1953).
• Helmut Plath , Herbert Mundhenke , Ewald Brix : Home chronicle of the city of Hanover. Cologne 1956, p. 361ff.
• Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series, 24 (1970), p. 235f.
• Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900. Hanover 1995, p. 68 u.ö.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Eilers - Louis E. Stahlbau GmbH & Co. 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. 182.
• Literature by and about Louis Eilers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : German Steel Construction Day in Hanover , in: Stahlbau , 84th year (2015), no. 2, pp. 143–151.

Web links

Commons : Louis Eilers Stahlbau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• eilerswerke.de with building plans, concepts and picture galleries
• Regional history working group: Efrossinia and Stefan C. - Soviet forced laborers in Hanover
• Citizen's Office for Urban Development: Objects and land for building communities - ideas for projects (pdf)
• Werkbahn Deutz 36679 , photos by Jens Merte
• Photo of the property in summer with Peter Meyer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hannover Chronik (see literature), p. 284
2. ↑ Source: Company letterhead, dated May 16, 1983
3. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Gasometer in der Glocksee, around 1880. In: Hanover in early Photographien ... (see literature), p. 220
4. ^ Dieter Brosius : Improvement of the quality of life: energy, traffic, supply, recreation. In: History of the City of Hanover , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , vol. 2: From the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Schlütersches Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei GmbH & Co. KG, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-364-0 , p. 369ff. , here: p. 374; on-line:
5. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner: Schmiedewerkstatt von Louis Eilers , around 1880, in: Hanover in early Photographien ... (see literature), p. 210 f.
6. ^ Photos from the archive of the city of Kappeln, Eckhard Schmidt
7. ^ Sven Bardua: Bridge metropolis Hamburg. Architecture and technology history up to 1945. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-937904-88-7 , p. 157.
8. ↑ https://www.bauforum24.biz/videos/historische-baufilme/bilfinger-berger-br%C3%BCcke-%C3%BCber-den-kleinen-belt-1928-r546/ Source: film about bridge construction; Mention "Peinerträger" after 20 minutes, 50 seconds
9. ^ Ponte Alexandrino de Alencar, Bahia do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10. ↑ eilerswerke.com (see web links)

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 14.7 "  N , 9 ° 41 ′ 10.1"  E