Nieverner hut

The Nieverner Hut on the island of Oberau, Fachbach

The Nieverner Hütte in the middle of the 18th century

The Nieverner hut is a former ironworks on today Fachbach at the Lahn belonging island Oberau (formerly Nievern ).

history

The Nieverner Hütte was founded in 1671 by Peter Michael Mariot, Gottfried Eberhard Nottemanns and Gerhard Frank Bouille. Iron ore was originally smelted into pig iron here , first with charcoal and later with coke . After 1882 the blast furnaces were shut down and the smelter was converted into an iron foundry . Due to the global economic crisis and the displacement of cast iron by aluminum and steel , the "Frankschen Eisenwerke Nieverner Hütte" was closed in 1932.

Businesses settled on the site. During the Second World War , armaments were produced here, which made the island a target for Allied air strikes.

Monument protection

The Nieverner Hütte is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Fachbach in the monument zone Nieverner Hütte .

The Nieverner Hütte has been a recognized industrial monument since 1982 . Furthermore, it is a protected cultural asset according to the Hague Convention and marked with the blue and white trademark.

Web links

Commons : Nieverner Huette - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Nieverner hut. Photos on fachbach.de ( Memento from July 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 35 (PDF; 6.2 MB).

50.334166666667 7.6741666666667Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 3 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 27 ″ E

[1] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Lahn-Kreis. Mainz 2020, p. 35 (PDF; 6.2 MB).