Machine factory in Hundisburg
The machine factory in Hundisburg (also called the English machine factory in Hundisburg or Nathusius machine factory ) belonged to the Nathusius industrial establishments and existed at the beginning of the 19th century in Hundisburg Castle and with parts in the village of Hundisburg in what is now Saxony-Anhalt . The history of the factory began with the installation of a copper hammer and an iron foundry in 1814 and ended in 1819 after a failure in the manufacture of steam engines. The Hundisburger factory was the first machine factory in Northern Germany. Here a hydraulic press was constructed for extracting sugary beet juice, which was discussed several times in contemporary literature and was considered the first of its kind in Germany. Although it was not possible to produce functioning steam engines, the factory was groundbreaking for the industrialization of Saxony-Anhalt.
prehistory
With the acquisition of the secularized monastery property Althaldensleben by Johann Gottlob Nathusius in 1810, the history of the Nathusius industrial establishments began . In 1811 Nathusius had also taken over Hundisburg Castle and his estate. In the following years he set up various businesses and manufactories on the two neighboring properties. Initially, he concentrated on improving agricultural and livestock farming methods and the processing of the products obtained there. From 1812, the Nathusius sugar factory was therefore established in Althaldensleben . However, the young sugar industry was faced with the problem of how to effectively process beetroot , which still contained little sugar . Both the crushing and squeezing of the beets were time-consuming and ineffective with conventional methods. Even if Nathusius was able to improve the results with production devices from his Magdeburg tobacco factory , he quickly realized that more specialized machines and more powerful drives were needed in order to be able to produce competitively against the cheap, imported cane sugar in the medium term . In addition, machines were also used in other businesses of the commercial establishments. It was only natural that Nathusius was considering setting up his own machine manufacturing and workshop.
The machine factory of Johann Gottlob Nathusius
Even if the manufacture of machines such as those produced in England was initially based on commercial considerations, Nathusius also saw an economic advantage in producing previously imported machines and devices on site, “ ... in order to keep the money in the country and at the same time but to provide the patriotic economist and tradesman with the machines even cheaper than they can get them from England ... ".
As early as 1814, Nathusius had the first metal processing building built on the outskirts of Hundisburg instead of the "Niedermühle" that had previously existed here on the Beber - for a copper hammer and an iron foundry. The water forces served to drive tail hammers and bellows . A two-storey building to house the factory workers was probably built a short distance away. It was referred to as a colliery house on maps of the time . In 1815 Nathusius met a young mechanic on the occasion of a visit to a mining captain Gerhard in Berlin. Ernst Neubauer came from Königsburg and had worked as a mechanic in machine factories in London and Birmingham for a few years. Nathusius was impressed by the young man's expertise and self-confidence and offered him to build a machine factory based on the English model in Hundisburg. Neubauer agreed and a partnership contract was concluded between the two. According to Nathusius' plans, the factory should have an investment cost of 12,000 thalers, which he would finance.
First of all, Neubauer was supposed to improve the existing crushing equipment for beet sugar production in Althaldensleben. Obviously he convinced Nathusius in this task. In the spring of 1816 he was sent to England to buy the means of production needed there in the name of Nathusius: lathes, circular saws and a 7 ″ steam engine. He also recruited twelve English formers and fitters who came to Hundisburg with him and the factory components. While Neubauer was absent, he was represented as a foreman in Hundisburg by a Berlin mechanic whose entire workshop Nathusius had bought in order to convince him to accept the representation. In addition to Neubauer, there was later another factory manager, Mr Ihningen, who was presumably also profit-sharing from Nathusius.
The English workers brought with them the necessary expertise, but turned out to be demanding. They demanded significantly better treatment than the local employees. Since they insisted on a meat-intensive diet, an ox had to be slaughtered for them every week, and they were financed to have their own cook. Even if the costs were significantly higher than originally planned by Nathusius, he was still convinced that he would finance a profitable investment. The positive response to the announcement of the factory opening contributed to this. Visitors came from everywhere and orders were received even before the first machine was produced. The demand for domestic machines was enormous and soon the first, still quite simple, agricultural machinery could be sold.
However, quality problems quickly arose in the manufacture of more complex machines. The cast iron manufactured in the company's own cupola furnaces for the production of steam engines was too brittle and broke under high loads because Neubauer used inferior fuel (coke) for the melting and casting process. In order not to lose time, part of coming from England was working to that in the resin located Rübeländer ironworks sent to make the necessary castings there.
The machine factory (machine construction) itself was set up in Hundisburg Castle. The iron foundry and the copper hammer had already been laid out below the castle.
Hundisburg Castle
The baroque palace with its former stately representative rooms was largely misappropriated from 1814 to equip the machine factory by Nathusius, who preferred a modest lifestyle for himself and could not do much with the acquired premises. Early industrial structures were used in the magnificent rooms with their pressed leather wallpapers and stucco ceilings . The factory took up almost the entire castle and consisted of various workshops: the blacksmith's shop, the wagon shop, the carpenter's shop, the cooper's shop, the wood turning shop and a metal turning shop. In 1817 up to 50 workers were employed there. The construction of the machine factory in the castle probably also fell victim to the castle chapel, which is important in terms of architecture and art history. The chapel room was converted into smaller rooms for residential purposes and probably even for stables.
According to an 1822 list of the equipment of the machine factory, which was already shut down at the time, which the Berlin Ministry of Commerce had made by a dispatched specialist to consider the purchase of parts, there were essential pieces of equipment:
“ 1. a 7 ″ steam engine with a parallelogram, iron balancer and flywheel to drive the lathes, is made in England and is in good conditions, has been idle for 3 years, is rusty
2. a self-made steam engine of 7 HP .... , to which the Rübeländer Hütte had delivered the cast goods. The machine did not work properly and was stored as scrap ....
3. oversized castings for steam engines
4. partially finished, well-built hydraulic presses
5. several twisted rollers
6. threshing machine constructed according to a Scottish pattern
7. iron shafts
8. faulty machine parts for Lead pipe production, only scrap value
9. an incorrectly constructed Baader cylinder blower for operating the Cupol ovens with a wooden tub of 4 ft. Diameter into which an iron cylinder of 2 1/2 ft. Diameter with wind flaps is immersed, firewood and scrap
10. Agricultural equipment
11 . four brand new English Ciculier saws up to 18 ″ diameter
12. a complete ... movement for a large steam engine “
Copper hammer and iron foundry
A building was erected below the castle for supplies to machine production - with an iron foundry equipped with 2 cupolas and a water-powered copper hammer. The copper hammer consisted of a so-called cold and a warm forge and employed around 40 people. The copper required was obtained from Rothenburg and Sangerhausen in the Harz Mountains . There was also a lead tube pull near the copper hammer . The Breslau camera scientist Friedrich Benedict Weber described the facility on the occasion of one or more visits to Hundisburg and Althaldensleben in the years 1814 to 1817:
“In Hundisburg (which has over 4000 acres of forest) there is a copper and iron hammer and an iron foundry, where all kinds of ordinary copper and iron goods are made and ironwork is carried out both for their own needs in the economy and other factories, as well as for sale become. - Blue tube trains are also made here. "
The above-mentioned list of the Berlin Ministry of Commerce notes on the equipment:
“... 13) there are two cupola ovens in the iron foundry, still usable
14) 3,000 bushels of poor quality coke and approx. 150 Ztn. Scrap in the form of failed stove plates from the resin. The cupola ovens were operated by molders recruited in England ...
15) Copper hammer constantly in operation, ... "
The copper hammer continued to operate after the machine factory was closed and was not dismantled until 1843. In its place, two grinding aisles and a cutting mill were set up in the Niedermühle .
production
Hundisburger Maschinenfabrik's product portfolio was diversified. It included machines and equipment for sugar production - primarily hydraulic presses, steam cookers and boilers. In addition, fans, rollers and still and brewery equipment. Agricultural machines were also an important product group: threshing machines, fruit cleaning machines and seed drills , plows, extirpators , hoes, chopping and root cutting machines, hay turning machines and potato crushers.
Weber described the factory's production results in exaggerated form in his travelogues:
“ ... the largest and most important machines and tools are made to order, according to the best English samples, which are needed in agriculture and in factories: especially fire and steam engines, of any size and power; also threshing machines, grain cleaning machines, hay turning machines, English plows and the like more ... "
Weber commented on pricing policy:
“ The prices of the machines, if they have not already been ordered and made here several times, or the models that are required of them, cannot be determined in advance. You only fix them when the things are done; by calculating exactly, a) the value of the materials used, - according to the usual price in the region; b) the wages paid for this; c) 10 per cent. of the price of each item as a contribution to the amortization fund, which is intended to gradually pay off the initial investment costs of the factory. "
A large threshing machine from our own production, which was used on the Althaldensleben estate and powered by four horses, was able to thresh 24 to 30 shock fruit in one day. This device cost 540 thalers. The tools and machines were partly for sale in the Magdeburg branch of the Nathusius Gewerbeanstalten ( Nathusius Producten- und Fabricatenniederlage, a commission institution for all departments ), partly made to order.
Hydraulic press
A hydraulic (or "hydromechanical") press built in Hundisburg attracted particular attention . After the Leipzig physics professor Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert , the Hundisburger press was the first such construction in Germany. The press was originally intended for more effective squeezing of the sugar beet juice in the Nathusius sugar factory. However, the possible uses of the device seemed more extensive:
" In the machine factory in Hundisburg in Magdeburg, built by the merchant and landowner Mr. Nathusius, a hydro-mechanical press was created by the mechanic Neubauer, which, if set in motion by 2 people, in time of a few minutes until it reaches its maximum effect, exerts a pressure of 300,000 pounds, and then maintains this maximum tension at will, or can be relieved by opening the outlet valve. It does not take up as much space as an ordinary screw press, and yet it does as much as 8, and in the case of paper press itself as much as 15 ordinary screw presses. When squeezing beetroot juice, it gives 50% more juice than the ordinary press. It is recommended to the sugar refineries for pressing Syrop, the oil mills, the cloth factories for hot pressing of the cloths and can be used advantageously to bend the planks of the ship in shipbuilding, to pull out the trees with the roots in the forests, and so on "
Abrupt end
In 1818 the first steam engine was finally completed. It was set up in Hundisburg for demonstration purposes and attracted interested people from everywhere who wanted to see it. Among the many important visitors was the district president of Magdeburg, Friedrich von Bülow . The machine ran reliably in trial operation and Nathusius wanted to keep his first steam engine himself. But when a manufacturer in the area offered him a price of 1000 thalers above the proposed list price for the following models, it was sold to him. Neubauer assembled the machine at its destination, but when it was tried to start work with it, it failed. The buyer made claims for compensation, Nathusius turned to Neubauer for repairs. He declared that he had to get a spare part from the Harz foundry, whereupon he left on December 11, 1818 in Nathusius' traveling car and some 100 thalers and never came back. He probably went to Northern Germany via Leipzig to book a passage to America; you never heard from him again.
Nathusius exposed 100 Friedrich d'or to Neubauer's capture and placed corresponding search advertisements in newspapers at the end of December. The humiliation was great, having been betrayed by a swindler for years. The factory was shut down immediately, its doors sealed. The entrepreneur had invested 100,000 thalers in the factory over the entire period and thus lost it. Hundisburg had about 800 inhabitants at that time.
The machine factory of Ole Johansen Winstrup
In 1824, the Danish mechanic and agricultural machinery manufacturer Winstrup suggested that the Hundisburger machine factory, which had been closed but still existed, should be continued at his own expense. Nathusius sold the machine factory to the Dane on favorable terms and Winstrup established his company in Hundisburg.
The takeover of Hundisburger Maschinenfabrik by Winstrup was advertised in various newspapers, for example on June 26, 1825 in the Economic News and Negotiations or on June 30, 1825 in the Möglin'schen Annalen der Landwirtschaft :
“ The machine factory I built on my Gut Hundisburg in Magdeburg is owned by DJ Winstrup from Copenhagen, Mechanikus and Danebrogsmann are also members of the Königl. Danish Country Housekeeping Society, which will continue this for his account. In him I have found a man who combines practical experience with thorough knowledge, and who has also been running his own machine factory in Copenhagen for several years. I therefore ask everyone who wishes to have machines or cast iron goods to contact "the machine factory in Hundisburg near Magdeburg" or "to Mr. DJ Winstrup" there. Althaldensleben, June 30th 1825. "
such as:
" With regard to the above statement by Mr. Nathusius, I obediently have the honor to indicate that I have agricultural implements such as: threshing, grain, cleaning, chopping, beet-cutting machines and the like, keeping the same plows of more recent invention in stock at all times and keeping them above Issue price list free of charge. I also have machines of all kinds made to order and in particular take on the construction of new water, wind, horse and steam mills, hydraulic presses, fire engines, letterpress machines and letterpress presses. Iron parlor stoves, cookware and the like will always be in stock, and I have all kinds of cast goods made to order according to any drawing or specification. As far as agricultural tools are concerned, I refer to my work, which is entitled: "Images and descriptions of the latest and greatest agricultural tools by DJ Winstrup", eight booklets, published in both German and Danish and available from Mr. Hof bookseller Schubothe Copenhagen and in the bookstore of Mr. Wilhelm Heinrichshofen in Magdeburg as well as in several bookstores in Germany. "
Winstrup offered a product range that he had developed earlier in Denmark and that attracted attention due to the large number of new types of farm tools and agricultural machinery that were offered. It included the "Winstrups plow", "Winstrups wheel plow", replicas of English and American plows, underground plows and seed drills, grain cleaning and flax breaking machines as well as aggregates for windmills, pump mills, malt and grain skins. Winstrup's “dynamometer” was still in use around the First World War. However, with its high-quality but also expensive product range, it was unable to establish itself decisively on the Central German market. The large number of his products was appreciated by customers, but the production could not be cost-efficient. In 1929 he had to close his factory and moved the modern tool inventory from Hundisburg to Copenhagen to continue with the production of hydraulic pumps and other innovative technical devices. Among his many suggestions for technical improvements was a printing technique for counterfeit-proof banknotes that has not been put into practice. One side of these notes showed an engraving by Hundisburg.
meaning
In contrast to other regions in Germany, the industrialization of Saxony-Anhalt was primarily promoted by the young beet sugar industry. Nathusius's attempts to become independent of the import of English machines with his own products were exemplary for other entrepreneurs, despite some failures. The specialist knowledge of English machine manufacturing that he brought to the Magdeburg area, including through the skilled workers recruited from England, should have a fruitful effect on Magdeburg's development to a later location of mechanical engineering and, as a result, heavy industry , even after the decline of the Hundisburg factory . One example is the activities of the Aston brothers.
The machine works and iron foundry of the Aston brothers
Among the twelve English formers and locksmiths that Neubauer had brought to Hundisburg at Nathusius's request in 1815 were the brothers Samuel (1792–1848) and Georg Aston. They should play an important role in the development of mechanical engineering in the Magdeburg economic area.
Unlike their compatriots, the two brothers did not return to England after the Hundisburg machine production was stopped, but represented English manufacturers of machines for sugar factories in Magdeburg and the surrounding area or worked in the mining industry in Zorge in the Harz Mountains. In 1823, Samuel Aston founded the first machine factory ( mechanical workshop at Kniehauerufer 19) in Magdeburg.
1829 joined George Aston as a partner in the company, which is now located at Trönsberg was 48 and as a result in engine works and iron foundry Brothers Aston & Co. was renamed. The company manufactured industrial steam engines (export to Bohemia ), hydraulic presses, pumps as well as machines and equipment for the sugar industry. After his brother's death, Aston sold the company to Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1839/1840 , who entrusted Lorenz Schöttler (1801–1864) with the technical management. Aston later re-established a machine factory in Burg ( Maschinen- und Orleansfabrik ), which operated as Aston's machine factory until the 20th century .
References and comments
- ↑ according to L. (Freiherr) von Zedlitz, guide through the Prussian state, to the neighboring countries and the capitals of Europe. Travel paperback for Berlin and the Prussian states , Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1831, p. 19.
- ↑ according to Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 8. Altenburg 1859, p. 620
- ↑ a b even if only the term "copper hammer" can be found in the predominant contemporary literature, it must be assumed that an iron hammer was also located there - possibly at a somewhat later point in time. This is particularly supported by the verifiable presence of the iron foundry, Friedrich Benedict Weber ( comments on various ..., see LitVerz.) Also mentions an iron hammer.
- ^ Hermann Klaue: The German oil milling. A presentation of the economic importance of their technical development . From the series: Technisch-Volkswirtschaftliche Monographien , Volume 13, W. Klinkhardt, 1913, p. 58
- ^ A b c Manfred Beckert: The first machine factory in the Magdeburg economic area . In: Study on the history of Magdeburg mechanical engineering in the 19th century on behalf of the Association for the Promotion of a Technology Museum in the State Capital Magdeburg e. V., p. 3 ff.
- ↑ a b c d Peter Wilhelm Behrends (edit.): Neuhaldenslebische Kreis-Chronik, or history of all places of the district Neuhaldensleben, in Magdeburg , second part. Carl August Eyraud, Neuhaldensleben 1826, books.google.pl p. 84 ff.
- ^ Ulrich Hauer : Of art gardeners and garden art. The gardeners and gardens of the Nathusius family in Althaldensleben and Hundisburg , KULTUR-Landschaft Haldensleben-Hundisburg eV and Museum Haldensleben (ed.), Haldensleben-Hundisburg 2005
- ↑ The designation as "Zechenhaus" speaks for possibly planned mining activities of Nathusius, which, however, have not yet been documented.
- ↑ The Prussian Reichstaler formed the monetary unit of almost all of Northern Germany until the end of 1871 and was first divided into 24 groschen and then from 1821 into 30 silver groschen.
- ↑ a b c d e f acc. Elsbeth von Nathusius, A Pioneer ..., see LitVerz.
- ↑ a b c Ulrich Hauer: 850 years of Hundisburg , brochure on the 850 year celebration. Council of the municipality of Hundisburg (ed.), Hundisburg 1990.
- ↑ a b c d e Friedrich Benedict Weber: Comments on various subjects of agriculture, ... , see LitVerz.
- ↑ a b c d acc. GSTA Berlin Dahlem, Rep. 121, Dept. D, Tit. III, Sect. 3, No. 1, Vol. 2, based on: Kurt Schwertfeger, source collection
- ↑ a b c d Alexander von Lengerke (Hrsg.): Landwirthschaftliches Conversations-Lexicon for practitioners and laypeople , first booklet, sheets 1–10 of the first volume. JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1837, p.95 .
- ^ Edzard Rust: The chapel of Hundsibrug Castle - a prime example of a Protestant gallery church from the late 17th century . In: Peter Michael Hahn, Hellmut Lorenz (ed.): Splendor and glory. Noble-princely lifestyles in the 17th and 18th centuries . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1998, ISBN 3-932981-06-5 , p. 96. According to another source, the chapel was only used as a stable from around 1830, according to Ulrich Hauer: Of art gardeners and garden art. The gardeners and gardens of the Nathusius family in Althaldensleben and Hundisburg . Cultural landscape Haldensleben-Hundisburg e. V. and Museum Haldensleben (ed.), Haldensleben-Hundisburg 2005, p. 42.
- ↑ in contemporary sources also referred to as "yellow foundry", which may indicate an additional brass foundry
- ↑ a b Ulrich Hauer: The businessman Johann Gottlob Nathusius and his agricultural-industrial complex in Althaldensleben and Hundisburg , 2004 at Ecomusee.de (PDF; 23 kB).
- ^ Leopold von Zedlitz: The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III. Volume 2 ( The Topography ) Maurer'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 155 .
- ↑ according to Meyers Konversationslexikon , Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Volume 8, Fourth Edition, Leipzig and Vienna 1885–1892, p. 835 .
- ↑ Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (ed.): Annalen der Physik , new series, volume 30. Joh.Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1819, p. 13.
- ↑ from: Magdeburger Zeitung , 1818, No. 155 of December 29, 1818, Magdeburg 1818.
- ↑ probably the chicory factory in Alten Platow, gem. GSTA Berlin Dahlem, Rep. 121, Dept. D, Tit. III, Sect. 3, No. 1, Vol. 2, based on: Kurt Schwertfeger, source collection.
- ↑ a value of about 500 thalers
- ↑ Ph. Karrer: Detailed historical geography, for manufacturers, manufacturers, merchants, pharmaceuticals , tradesmen, etc. , Second part, Von Jenisch and Stage'sche Buchhandlung, Augsburg 1832, p. 91 .
- ↑ Ole Johansen Winstrup (born August 12, 1782 in Winstrup / Sjælland (Denmark); † December 26, 1867 in Mariaslyst near Copenhagen ) trained as a carpenter, blacksmith and mill builder from 1797 to 1804. From 1804 to 1811 he did his military service and attended mathematical and technical seminars at the University of Copenhagen during this time. In 1811 he acquired the Mariaslyst estate outside of Copenhagen with government support and founded the first Danish factory for agricultural implements and machines there. Around 1820 he employed 20 workers and began producing technically improved windmills. Difficult working conditions in Denmark and reports about the Nathusius machine factory in Hundisburg prompted him to travel there to study. After giving up the Hundisburger factory, he returned to Denmark in 1829, and later lived as a mill owner on his Mariaslyst estate, acc. Guido Heinrich and Heinz Nowak, entry in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon , Magdeburg 2004.
- ^ Walter Müller: Anniversaries of important personalities and important events in 2007 in Saxony-Anhalt - a selection . lhbsa.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 121 kB)
- ^ Christian Karl Andre (ed.): Economic news and negotiations , Volume 29, No. 211. Economic machines, Die Wintrupschen zu Hundisburg . JG Calve'sche Buchhandlung, Prague 1825, p. 519.
- ↑ Möglinsche Annalen der Landwirtschaft , Königl. Preuss. Academy of Agriculture in Möglin (ed.), Volume 16, Anzeiger . August Rücker, Berlin 1825, p. 360.
- ^ Mathias Tullner: In the beginning there was the sugar beet ...
- ^ Samuel Aston, (* February 14 or 18, 1792 in Pennydarren in South Wales or Newport , † October 29, 1848 in Burg ) was a mechanic, mechanical engineer and entrepreneur. He learned the trade of mechanic in Pennydarren. After 1815 he moved with his brother Georg and his sister Fanny from Wales to Magdeburg, in 1823 he received citizenship in Magdeburg and became a member of the Magdeburg merchants. In 1835 he married the later writer and suffragette, Louise Aston . The marriage was divorced in 1838, the couple later married again, according to Konrad Pusch and Axel Thiem Entry in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon , Magdeburg 2004 (last change: January 8, 2004)
- ^ Mathias Tullner: In the beginning there was the sugar beet, remarks on the development of the industrial economic area on the Middle Elbe and the lower Saale . In: Infrastructure - a historical task , Wirtschaftsrat Deutschland, Landesverband Sachsen-Anhalt (ed.), 2004/2005, p. 15.
- ↑ There are different details about the founding date of the Aston'schen Maschinenfabrik, according to The Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Magdeburg from 1818 states that Aston opened a workshop in Magdeburg as early as 1818 in which he manufactured a steam engine to drive Magdeburg's water art , according to: Kurt Schwertfeger in a collection of sources on the history of the machine factory in Hundisburg. According to another source, this machine, which was put into operation on March 1, 1819 in front of Magdeburg notables, is said to have been manufactured in Hundisburg, according to Konrad Pusch: A Briton founded the first machine factory, 150 years of the Association of German Engineers (Part 2) . In an unknown daily newspaper on September 23, 2006.
- ↑ Lorenz Schöttler later founded two machine factories himself: 1846 in Sudenburg on Halberstädter Chaussee and in 1852/53 the company Friedrich Seele & Co. in Braunschweig , acc. Robert Schreyer and Bernhild Vögel, entry in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon , Magdeburg 2004 (last change March 1, 2005).
- ^ Konrad Pusch, Axel Thiem: Entry in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon , Magdeburg 2004 (last change: January 8, 2004).
literature
- Friedrich Benedict Weber : Comments on various subjects of agriculture. Collected on economic trips in Silesia, Saxony, Thuringia, on the Rhine and in other German regions in the summers of 1814, 1815, 1816 and 1817. In addition to a state-economic treatise on the previous grain haying. With 1 copper plate and 2 tables , Hartknoch, Leipzig 1819, pp. 287–297 plus Appendix A: Table for an overview of the technical and economic operations in Althaldensleben and Hundisburg
- Ulrich Hauer. The businessman Johann Gottlob Nathusius and his agro-industrial complex in Althaldensleben and Hundisburg , in: Model and Reality. Politics, culture and society in the Grand Duchy of Berg and in the Kingdom of Westphalia , LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History Münster, Research on Regional History , Volume 56, Gerd Dethlefs u. a. (Ed.), Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2008, pp. 441-446
- Elsbeth of Nathusius: Johann Gottlob Nathusius. A pioneer in German industry . German publishing company, Stuttgart and Berlin 1915
