Machine factory Germany

The roof structure of the switch construction hall of the machine works Germany

The Maschinenfabrik Germany (MFD) was a manufacturer of machine tools for machining of workpieces largest dimensions, load handling machines and construction of railway switches, as well as relevant to the technical safety of rail transportation, machines for processing and Püfung of wheel sets , based in Dortmund .

history

Together with the then head of the Borsigwerke in Berlin, August Julius Albert Borsig , and Louis Baare from the Bochum Association for Cast Steel Manufacture , the chief engineer for the Cologne-Minden railway, Julius Weidtmann, founded the machine factory in the north of downtown Dortmund in 1872. In 1911 it fell to Eisen-Stahlwerke Hoesch AG . As part of the efforts to rationalize and concentrate during the global economic crisis, the Both & Tilmann machine works, which also belonged to the Hoesch Group, were subordinated to MFD in 1929 , whose turnout construction department was merged with its own department.

The machine factory was re-established in 1952 and since then has operated largely independently under the name Hoesch MFD . In the 1990s, the factory was closed and completely demolished except for the switch construction hall on Bornstrasse. This is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

The MFD was located on an area of ​​830 hectares along Bornstrasse between Borsigstrasse and Mindener Strasse, west of Hoesch- Westfalenhütte and east of the Kaiserstuhl 1 colliery, which is also part of Hoesch , and is now a property of the Dortmund Actien brewery . In 1995 Vossloh AG bought MFD and Hegenscheidt GmbH and merged them at the Erkelenz location to form today's Hegenscheidt-MFD GmbH . In 1996 the famous name Maschinenfabrik Deutschland went out .

The city of Dortmund used the area of ​​the MFD to a large extent, today a large hardware store and several trading companies are based there. The old switch construction hall on Bornstrasse is still used as part of the hardware store and is part of the route of industrial culture .

Two products named after this company, the Germany curve and the Germany device , let the name of the company live on in railway circles.

See also

• List of machine tool builders

literature

• Hoesch Maschinenfabrik Deutschland AG: The oil-hydraulic light metal rerailer with back pressure , n.d. , n.d. (before 1993), (illustrated product catalog No. 350 of the company, in A4 format)

Web links

Commons : Maschinenfabrik Deutschland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10637
• Hegenscheidt-MFD GmbH & Co. KG

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annonce , Anzeiger zum Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , December 28, 1882, p. 2., accessed on December 14, 2012
2. ↑ Hoesch Maschinenfabrik Germany: The oil hydraulic light metal rerailer with back pressure , o. O., o. J. (before 1993, product catalog No. 350), p. 23.
3. ↑ No. A 0877. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 10, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 24 ″  E