Neubrücker Hut

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New bridge around 1880 with the ironworks

The Neubrücker Hütte (also Finnentroper Hütte , Neu-Oeger-Hütte or Neubrücker Eisenwerk ) was an ironworks in Neubrücke, today's Finnentrop . The plant existed from 1858 to 1901 and was located in the area of ​​today's Lennepark west of the Finnentrop train station.

history

The area of ​​today 's Olpe district was already a center of iron production and processing in the Duchy of Westphalia in the early modern period . In the course of industrialization and the transition to coal smelting , most of the factories collapsed in the middle of the 19th century due to the lack of a connection to the railway network. Instead of the proximity to the raw materials, the convenient location became the decisive location factor. The planned Ruhr-Sieg Railway triggered various new foundations along the probable route since the 1850s. These included the Hofolper Hütte , the Carolinenhütte , the Germaniahütte and the Neubrücker Hütte.

This was founded in 1858 by the Neu-Oeger Bergwerks- und Hütten-Actien-Verein . The original factory facilities were expanded to include additional blast furnaces in 1863 and 1870. This made it the only smelter in the Olper Land with three blast furnaces. Pig iron was produced, and between 1866 and 1871, to a lesser extent, also fried iron. Pig iron was also supplied to the neighboring rolling and puddling mill of the Bonzel family (later taken over by Wolf Netter & Jacobi , merged with Mannesmann-Stahlblechbau-AG , now thyssenkrupp Steel Europe ). From the beginning, steam power was not used in production, as was the case with pre-industrial plants.

The ores required initially came from the surrounding area. Later, mainly ore from the Wetzlar area was smelted. At first the company flourished. Production peaked at 18,035 t of pig iron in 1868. The Neu-Oeger Bergwerks- und Hütten-Actienverein went bankrupt on September 20, 1876, so operations were suspended until November 14, 1882, the OHG Finnentroper Hütte Kaiser Franz & Cie. resumed production. On January 1, 1886, the plant itself was reorganized from a general partnership to a stock corporation . Eighteen shareholders from Siegerland raised the necessary capital of 300,000 marks .

In 1900 the plant became the property of the Westfälische Stahlwerke Bochum . At that time, a workforce of around 40 workers produced around 12,000 t of pig iron per year. The company was finally shut down in 1901. Most of the workers moved to the nearby Wolf Netter & Jacobi plant . The factory facilities fell into disrepair and were blown up in 1907. The former administration building was only demolished in 2013. An ore period of the company was probably mined in Finnentrop and rebuilt as a bone mill in Fretter . The site was acquired by the Prussian Railway Fiscus in 1908 to expand the freight station and because of the planned construction of the Finnentrop – Wennemen line .

literature

  • Boris Broswoski: Basics of industrialization in the southern Sauerland in the second half of the 19th century. Olpe, 1994 p. 52.
  • Description of the mountain areas Arnsberg, Brilon and Olpe and the principalities of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Bonn, 1890 p. 193.
  • Wilhelm Ludwig Jakobi: The mining, metallurgy and trade in the administrative district of Arnsberg. Iserlohn, 1857 p. 345.
  • Franz Bitter: Finnentrop Sauerland. The parish village / its industry. The railway junction and its inhabitants. [Revised by Robert J. Sasse 2012] PDF
  • Franz Sondermann: History of the iron industry in the Olpe district. [First edition Münster, 1907, reprint Olpe, 1992] p. 140.
  • Josef Reuter, Thomas Feldmann: The Neubrücker Hut. In Thomas Feldmann (Red.): The Finnentropic Chronicle. Finnentrop 1994, pp. 486-489.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Situation of the Finnentrop train station and the Neubrück ironworks. (JPG) Landesarchiv NRW Westphalia department, 1872, accessed on October 2, 2017 (map collection A, no.22092).

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 28.3 "  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 50.7"  E