Rottweil powder factory

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Rottweil powder factory
legal form from approx. 1871 stock corporation
founding 1863 by taking over a powder mill from the 15th century;
resolution 1994
Seat Rottweil
management until his death in 1921 Carl Duttenhofer
Number of employees up to 2000
Branch armor

Former power station of the Rottweil powder factory
View over part of the powder factory in 2014
former filter and pump house

The powder factory in Rottweil was an important company in Rottweil , which mainly produced cartridges for hunting and war purposes. The powder was also used in mining. It emerged from a powder mill from the 15th century when it was taken over by Max Duttenhofer in 1863 .

history

From the 14th to the 16th century there are several mentions of powder deliveries from Rottweil to Switzerland - beginning in 1384 with a powder maker named Erhart von Rotwil.

In 1863, Max Duttenhofer joined the powder mill and married the daughter of the powder miller Flaiz. The company gained international significance through its low-smoke gunpowder , known as Rottweiler chemical powder , an invention by Duttenhofer. In 1887 Prussia introduced the nitrocellulose powder. It burned smokelessly and with almost no residue and displaced the black powder in no time. In 1890 the company employed 854 workers, produced 6,000 tons of powder and reached a balance sheet total of 31 million marks. The company reached the peak of its economic success after Duttenhofer's death: in 1917 it employed 2,226 people. The "brown prismatic powder" invented by Duttenhofer dominated the market for heavy artillery and ship artillery for a long time .

The company acquired several stakes in other armaments companies and set up branches, such as the Düneberg powder factory near Geesthacht . Due to the proximity of the new branch to Hamburg , the company operated at times as the Rottweil-Hamburg powder factory . In 1890 it merged with others to form the United Cologne-Rottweiler Pulverfabriken AG ( Cologne-Rottweil AG from 1919 ), and later, with Mauser , among others , to form the Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG .

After the First World War , the area was also used for textile production until 1994; among other things, rayon - rayon was produced from 1919 onwards. With the incorporation of Köln-Rottweil AG into IG Farben in 1926, the plant resumed powder production.

Since the artificial silk production in the Second World War was important for the parachute production of the Wehrmacht , further buildings were built in the core area of ​​the plant, such as the spooling (artificial silk factory) in 1938 or the voluminous twisting building, which was never completely finished, from 1941 to 1942 Forced labor used. After the end of the war, those parts of the plant that were important for the armaments industry were dismantled.

In the 1930s, thus owned 140 buildings to the industrial complex that is still preserved today and when Ensemble under monument stands. The former Rottweil power station also belongs to the complex . Some of the buildings were built by well-known architects such as Paul Bonatz , Albert Staiger , Heinrich Henes or the Magdeburg architect Paul Schaeffer-Heyrothsberge (twisting mill), who also built the Auf der Brücke settlement between 1937 and 1940 .

There are 40 cultural monuments on the site. Since 1993, the area has been gradually converted and the complex has been saved from deterioration. "In 1999 the successful conversion of the former bathhouse as a restaurant and theater was rewarded with the monument protection prize". Another monument protection award was added in 2008.

The Swiss armaments company RUAG Ammotec still has cartridges manufactured in Fürth - Stadeln under various brands ("Rottweil", "Schwarze Waidmannsheil") of the former Rottweil powder factory .

The pump house of the former powder factory was named "Monument of the Month" by the Baden-Württemberg Monument Foundation in April 2013 , and the mechanical workshop in June 2018.

photos

  • Inspector's House

  • Barrage with hydroelectric power station

  • Official casino

  • Lower mill

  • Remnants of a water turbine

  • Chemical laboratory

  • Monument to Max Duttenhofer

  • Bath house

  • Workers canteen

  • Workers' changing room, so-called Jakobskirche

  • Pulsometer

  • Office and electric car hall

  • Fire station

  • Remainder of the so-called Dutch building

  • Artificial silk factory

  • Workshop building

  • Barrage with roller weir

literature

  • Jörg Kraus: For money, emperor and fatherland. Max Duttenhofer, founder of the Rottweiler powder factory and first chairman of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. Heidelberg Reading Times Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-943137-25-5 .
  • Jörg Kraus: For money, emperor and fatherland. Max Duttenhofer, founder of the Rottweiler powder factory and first chairman of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-7688-1375-4 . ( Scientific series of the DaimlerChrysler Corporate Archives , Volume 4.)
  • Kerstin Renz: Knowledge creates appreciation. Industrial path leads visitors through the former powder factory in Rottweil. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 38, 2009, Issue 3, pp. 147–152 ( PDF; 4.6 MB )
  • Bernhard Laule: The former powder factory in Rottweil am Neckar . In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , 13th year 1984, issue 4, pp. 124-133. ( PDF )
  • Stefan King, Hermann Klos (ed.): Industrial culture in the Neckar valley Rottweil. From powder to nylon to commercial variety. Rottweil 2012.

Web links

Commons : Pulverfabrik Rottweil  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d industriemuseum-geesthacht.de: Max von Duttenhofer
  2. ↑ a b c d e Paul Gehring:  Duttenhofer, Max Wilhelm von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 206 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b rottweil-munition.com: Rottweil
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Neckartal Business Park - from powder factory to modern industrial and commercial site on rottweil.de, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b monumente-online.de: In the valley. 1914. Today. The new life of the powder factory in the Rottweiler Neckar valley
  6. ↑ rottweil.net Business Park Neckartal
  7. ↑ a b c schwaebischer-heimatbund.de: The winners of the Monument Protection Prize 2006
  8. ↑ rottweil.de: City of Rottweil: Information boards bring Rottweiler's industrial history back to life ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
  9. ↑ baufachinformation.de: Knowledge creates appreciation. Industrial path leads visitors through the former powder factory in Rottweil
  10. ^ Building files archive of the city of Rottweil
  11. ↑ rottweil.net Settlement "On the Bridge"
  12. ↑ Monument of the month at denkmalstiftung-baden-wuerttemberg.de (accessed on November 29, 2013)
  13. ↑ Monument of the month at denkmalstiftung-baden-wuerttemberg.de

Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 44.4 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 52.8"  E