Maschinenfabrik Brück
The Maschinenfabrik Bruck GmbH & Co. KG is an industrial company with an iron foundry in the North Rhine-Westphalian district town Düren .
Originally the members of the Brück family were Mühlenbauer . Until the middle of the 19th century, the company was located on Nippesstrasse. The last mill builder, Brück, died in 1852 while assembling an iron water wheel in a paper mill in Düren . The grandson Mathias Josef Brück, born in 1880, continued the tradition of the metalworking company.
In 1906 he founded his own company at Nideggener Straße 18 just a few hundred meters from his grandfather's workshop . There he manufactured machines for the leather industry. After the end of the First World War , the company moved to Düren-Nord in Neue Jülicher Strasse . The company was expanded to include an iron foundry in 1919. The company was able to expand at this location, including a large assembly hall in 1923/24 . Brück developed a number of innovations in mechanical engineering that were protected by patents .
Bridges built now hoists and Universialpressen for processing steel sheets and metal shears . The air raid on November 16, 1944 caused great damage. Much was also looted . After the reconstruction in 1945, 40 heavy machines could be produced again by 1948 . In the mid-1950s, Brück again had export connections to all countries in the world, from Egypt to Venezuela . Presses, scissors, cast iron pieces up to 12 tons, gears up to 1.80 m in diameter, special machines for the tannery and leather processing as well as lifting platforms for cars and locomotives were manufactured. At the beginning of the 1970s, the main branch was the manufacture of perforating and expanded metal presses as well as special eccentric presses. At that time, Brück was the world market leader in this area.
At the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s, the company was on the verge of collapse, as the company succession was not regulated after the death of the owner. The company was then continued in the third generation of the family by B. Glöckner and F. Brück.
In 1964 and 1990 the company was expanded with new halls. In 2010, the company's own welding department was set up in rented modern production halls on Veldener Straße . A year later the halls were bought.
Web links and sources
- Company website
- Traces , magazine of the Düren history workshop e. V., No. 5, November 2008
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 39.3 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 31.5" E