Mülhofen
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Mülhofen
Association-free city of Bendorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 33 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 25 ″ E
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| Height : | 65-100 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 2425 (2010) | |
| Incorporation : | October 1, 1928 | |
| Postal code : | 56170 | |
| Area code : | 02622 | |
Location of Mülhofen in Rhineland-Palatinate |
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Since 1928, Mülhofen has been a district of the association-free city of Bendorf in the Mayen-Koblenz district in Rhineland-Palatinate .
History and economy
The place arose over the years in what is now the Sayn district from a collection of mills on the Saynbach .
The Koblenz-Neuwied Basin was settled very early, as excavations in Mülhofen, among others, have shown. Its location on the Rhine and Saynbach resulted in favorable conditions for agriculture. In the 19th century, pumice was discovered as an easy-to-use building material and was mined on a large scale. Since there was no protection of the archaeological monuments at that time, many graves were destroyed and even robbery excavations were carried out and the grave goods stolen. The finds from the Celtic and Roman times were only taken to museums after the law for the protection of archaeological monuments was passed after the First World War .
In addition to pumice mining and processing, there were also two iron and steel works in Mülhofen . In 1836 the first blast furnace of the Concordia hut was put into operation, 20 years later the Mülhofener hut was founded. Since there were only a few houses in Mülhofen, the hut operator Krupp had the eight Krupp houses built. After 1856, Mülhofen grew into an important ironworks location on the Middle Rhine ; in 1905 the Mülhofener Hütte employed a total of 436 workers and produced 64,270 t of pig iron. In the years after 1870 a workers' settlement was built north of the Concordia hut, which is called The Twelve Apostles because of the number of its houses . At the instigation of the owner family Lossen, early social housing was built here, in which large families of the ironworkers lived until the middle of the 20th century. Not least because of this it can be explained that the Concordia was always popularly known as the Lossens Hut .
The population of the Mülhofen residential area grew with the degree of industrialization. The necessary infrastructure for a community had to be newly created. Mülhofen, on the border with Engers , belonged administratively to the municipality of Sayn. The children from Mülhofen went to school in Engers, with the exception of a few “Concordia hut children” who attended the Sayner school. Ecclesiastically - most of the residents of Mülhofen were Catholic - at times they orientated themselves towards Engers, but belonged to the Sayn parish in all church affairs . Because the number of pupils in Mülhofen had increased so much, in 1873 the municipality of Engers ordered the Mülhofen children to be expelled from the Engers school. So in 1874 the children were left without schooling. It was not until 1875 that Mülhofen received its own school for its community, which had grown to almost 1,000 residents. The two huts made significant contributions to its construction, which cost 27,000 thalers, with considerable donations. In 1895 the first gymnastics club was founded in Mülhofen (TV Mülhofen).
The 1927 in Mülhofen, then still under the name Schwemmsteinfabrik Frankfurt a. M. GmbH, founded building materials company Kann GmbH Baustoffwerke has its head office in Mülhofen directly on the Rhine, on the site of the former Mülhofener Hütte. Among other things, it produces building materials from pumice and concrete blocks there.
Since the workforce in the Mülhofener Hütte was drastically reduced in 1928, there was great unemployment and so the large community of Sayn-Mülhofen, which had gone the way of industrial monoculture, joined the town of Bendorf on October 1, 1928, which had other priorities. On June 6, 1930, the Mülhofener Hütte finally broke down, which had to share the fate of the Sayner Hütte, which was closed in 1926 - due to insufficient number of orders and an outdated hut. This also made the largest iron and steel industry location on the Middle Rhine history. So there was only the Concordia hut, with a greatly reduced workforce.
In 1945, the Mülhofen gymnastics club left its gymnasium on Schulenberg to the vicarie, which had to be expanded due to the approximately 1,500 Catholics and was used as a chapel or church for services from 1948 until the construction and inauguration of the new church.
After the Concordia hut was also closed in 1995, the area of the hut was restructured into the “Concordia” industrial and commercial park. One building of the Concordia hut was saved from demolition and now serves as an industrial monument.
Demographics
The development of the population, the values from 1885 to 1936 are based on censuses:
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societies
In Mülhofen, the customs of carnival in particular are well developed: There is a Möhnenverein (Möhnen Mülhofen; founded in 1938), which organizes an afternoon session on Weiberfastnacht and a carnival society, the KG "Ganz Denewer" Mülhofen from 1950, which has a gentlemen's meeting, a children's meeting, a "Cap meeting" and organizes the parade on Carnival Sunday. There is also a fishing club (AV Mülhofen), a gymnastics club (TV 1895 Mülhofen), which offers table tennis and football in addition to gymnastics, and a fair company that plans and runs the St. Martin's procession in addition to the fair.
Attractions
Concordia Hut
The Concordia hut shaped the economic center of Mülhofen for over 150 years. As an industrial monument, the former blast furnace building was spared demolition. It is a quarry stone building with two crossing ships from 1838.
The twelve apostles
As part of the expansion of the Concordia hut, a settlement with 12 large residential buildings was built north of the industrial plant around 1878. These houses, called the Twelve Apostles , for 2 and 4 families respectively, offered many large working-class families at that time sufficient and affordable (rental) living space. Small stables, toilets, large wash troughs, fed by the Lossenbach flowing behind them, and small gardens behind the houses were supposed to make the difficult and hard life of the ironworkers and their families easier. This made this settlement an early example of social housing. The massive, quarry stone houses were sold by the company's own settlement company (now Thyssen) before the hut was finally closed. Today, individually refurbished and renovated by the owners, the entire ensemble is a listed building.
Web links
- Society for History and Local Studies of Bendorf and Surroundings e. V .: Bendorf-Mülhofen
- Anne Lambertsen: Mülhofen: A portrait of the place. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, March 9, 2007.
- Literature about Mülhofen in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mülhofen yesterday and today
- ↑ Eugen Gertz: Industry in the area of the Middle Rhine District Association , Association of German Engineers, Coblenz, 1907, page 79
- ↑ a b school chronicle
- ↑ a b The Concordia Hut in Mülhofen
- ↑ a b 125 years of Rheinstahl Concordiahütte GmbH
- ^ A b Anne Lambertsen: Mülhofen: A local portrait . In: SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz, March 9, 2007. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ↑ Can: History . Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ↑ The Mülhofener Hütte
- ↑ bendorf.de: District Mülhofen ( Memento of 21 August 2007 at the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 6, 2010.
- ^ KG Mülhofen
- ^ Möhnenverein Mülhofen ( Memento from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Mayen-Koblenz district. Mainz 2020, p. 19 (PDF; 5.8 MB).
