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| Steelworks / ironworks Duisburg-Hochfeld (historically: Niederrheinische Hütte) |
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 The grounds of the Niederrheinische Hütte in the 1930s |
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| Construction year | 1851 | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '49.3 " N , 6 ° 44' 57.8" E | |
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The ArcelorMittal plant in Duisburg-Hochfeld , better known under the longstanding name Niederrheinische Hütte , was an iron and rolling mill in the Duisburg district of Hochfeld . The plant, founded in 1851, was most recently part of the international steel group ArcelorMittal . Pig iron and crude steel were once produced here , later the plant specialized in rolling various semi-finished products , in particular wire .
Location and environment
The plant is located in the Hochfeld district of Duisburg , which in turn belongs to the Duisburg-Mitte district. The plant is located on the right bank of the Lower Rhine between the Duisburg outer harbor (branch canal to the inner harbor ) in the north and the mouth of the Dickelsbach in the south. In the south of the site is the Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd train station , to which the plant is connected by works railway or connecting railway. To the south of the plant, the Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mönchengladbach railway crosses the Rhine with the Duisburg-Hochfelder railway bridge , and to the north of the plant is the “ Brücke der Solidarität ” road bridge , which connects Hochfeld with the Rheinhausen district on the opposite side of the Rhine. The RheinPark leisure and recreation area is located between the current plant and the banks of the Rhine ; this area was formerly part of the factory premises, but was gradually redesigned from 2004 onwards.
In the wider area there are several other, active and former steel works: To the north, at the Hochfelder Eck , are the Duisburg copper smelter (today DK Recycling and pig iron ) and the long defunct smelters Vulkan , Borussia and Johannis . A few kilometers further north, in the Ruhrort district , is the Ruhrort steelworks (formerly Phoenix ) , which also belongs to ArcelorMittal . The ThyssenKrupp steelworks Duisburg-Nord (formerly August-Thyssen-Hütte ) and the former steelworks Meiderich (formerly Rheinstahl , today Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord ) are even further north . On the other side of the Rhine, in the Rheinhausen district, is the former Krupp steelworks in Rheinhausen . A few kilometers further south, in the Hüttenheim district , is the HKM steelworks .
history
The history of the plant goes back to the year 1851. In that year it was founded by the entrepreneurs Peter Göring and Wilhelm Stein as a union under the name Niederrheinische Hütte . The two won Julius Römheld as technical director . The lodge was built initially as a pure blast furnace - iron that went into operation. 1853
The Hochfeld location was chosen primarily because of the favorable traffic conditions: the cargo ships with iron ore and coke could be unloaded at the nearby port. Ore, coke and other raw materials could also be delivered via the trunk line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , which already existed at that time and ran through Hochfeld, and the iron and steel products produced could be sold. In addition, the opening of several coal mines was planned in the vicinity , which could supply the plant or the upstream coking plants with coal. a. the Medio-Rhein mine .
In 1855/56 the union was converted into a stock corporation, which operated as Rheinische Bergbau und Hüttenwesen-AG .
From 1904 the blast furnace ironworks was expanded to a mixed steelworks with several Siemens-Martin furnaces and an attached rolling mill . Later (from 1913), the plant specializes in the rolls of wire .
In 1911 the Rheinische Bergbau und Hüttenwesen-AG merged with the Eisenwerk Kraft from Stettin. After the First World War, in 1920, the plant - as well as other parts of the Kraft Group - were taken over by the Stumm brothers from Neunkirchen. In 1926, the recently founded Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG (VESTAG) took over the plant. As a subsidiary of VESTAG, the plant again operated as Niederrheinische Hütte as part of Group West under the management of August-Thyssen-Hütte .
During the Second World War, in 1944, the factory was largely destroyed by Allied bombing raids. After the end of the war, the smelter was rebuilt as a wire rod mill, split off as Niederrheinische Hütte AG in 1951 when VESTAG was broken up and taken over by Thyssen-Hütte from 1955. The Westphalian Union AG for the iron and wire industry , the Lennewerk in Altena and the Steele ironworks were subsidiaries of the Niederrheinische Hütte .
During the steel boom of the 1960s, the Thyssen plant was fundamentally realigned. The iron and steel production was given up; In 1966 the last furnaces were taken out of service. The associated block and stick streets were also closed. In return, the production capacities for wire rod were significantly expanded. To store this, a hall was built in 1966 on the site of the former Johannishütte immediately south of the "Bridge of Solidarity". From then on, the Hochfeld plant obtained the crude steel from the neighboring plants in Ruhrort and Meiderich.
In 1971 Thyssen merged Niederrheinische Hütte with Hüttenwerke Oberhausen AG (HOAG) to form Thyssen Niederrhein AG , which was merged with Thyssen Stahl AG in 1986 . The Hochfelder Hütte became Walzdraht Hochfeld GmbH .
In 1997 Thyssen sold the Hochfeld plant to Ispat Steel, owned by the Indian entrepreneur Lakshmi Mittal , who brought the plant into the Mittal Steel Company in 2005. The Hochfelder Hütte has been part of ArcelorMittal since the merger of Mittal and Arcelor in 2007.
In 2013 wire production - the main product of the plant for many years - was relocated to the ArcelorMittal neighboring plant in Duisburg-Ruhrort. This ends the more than 150-year history of the Hochfelder Hütte as a production site for iron and steel products.
The factory premises should be cleared in 2017. In 2019 a demolition "in a few months" was promised.
literature
- Gerd von Klass, Max Paschke, Hugo Racine: 100 years Niederrheinische Hütte Aktiengesellschaft Duisburg 1851 to 1951 . Chronicle 1951. Hoppenstedt, Darmstadt 1951.
- Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg e. V. (Ed.): Duisburger Hüttenwerke . Sutton, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-364-8 .
- Manfred Rasch : The first wire rod from the Niederrheinische Hütte 1913 - Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck and Bernhard Grau . In: steel and iron. 133, No. 11, 2013, pp. 256-259.
Web links
- Anke and Michael Lisner-Kolling: Pictures from Hochfeld's past days: Niederrheinische Hütte. Im Hochfeld, accessed on December 17, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ ArcelorMittal Duisburg: Company. (No longer available online.) ArcelorMittal, archived from the original on June 24, 2017 ; Retrieved December 17, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ a b c The Niederrheinische Hütte Duisburg. A company of the Thyssen Group, 1963. IndustrieFilm Ruhr '13. metropole clock, accessed on December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Rheinpark Duisburg. (No longer available online.) City of Duisburg, archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; Retrieved December 17, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Wire mill relocation: Mittal makes room for Rheinpark . In: NRZ (Neue Ruhr-Zeitung) . April 17, 2010 ( full text in the WAZ online archive ).
- ↑ RheinPark - the new city quarter on the Rhine. City of Duisburg, accessed on December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ Anke and Michael Lisner-Kolling: Pictures from Hochfeld's past days: Hut Vulkan. Im Hochfeld, accessed on December 17, 2014 .
- ^ Living in Duisburg: The boroughs: Hochfeld and Wanheimerort. (No longer available online.) City of Duisburg, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 18, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Barbara Gerstein: Göring, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 528 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Anke and Michael Lisner-Kolling: Pictures from Hochfeld's past days: Niederrheinische Hütte. Im Hochfeld, accessed on December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ a b c d e ArcelorMittal Duisburg: History. (No longer available online.) ArcelorMittal, archived from the original on March 18, 2015 ; Retrieved December 17, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Hüttenwerke Ruhrort-Meiderich. industriedenkmal.de, accessed on December 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Jürgen Kuczynski: West German company history about the rebuilding of companies in West Germany after the Second World War . In: Yearbook for Economic History . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963, p. 143–202 ( online in the Digitalis archive of the library of the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Cologne - 2nd part).
- ↑ Wire rod in good shape again . In: The time . March 20, 1959 ( full text in ZEIT's online archive ).
- ^ Daniel Hinze: Wire rolling mill Duisburg. Video on YouTube. Dubtown Urban Exploring, August 8, 2009, accessed December 17, 2014 .
- ↑ derwesten.de
- ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/duisburg/rheinort-ferraro-will-walzwerk-in-hochfeld-schnell-abreissen-id227311989.html
