Rheinisches Eisenkunstguss-Museum
The Rheinisches Eisenkunstguss-Museum presents a selection of its collection. From 2000 to autumn 2019 it was housed in the rooms of Sayn Castle. The new location is the Sayner Hütte. The focus of the museum's collection is the time of industrialization in the city of Bendorf and its surroundings. Temporary exhibitions on various topics are shown in the special exhibition room.
The area of iron ore mining and iron processing is of particular importance.
The miners of the "Vierwinden" mine report on their work in the iron ore mine and on the blast furnace . In narrow, dark tunnels, they cut the ore out of the mountain with simple hoes. In the weak glow of the oil lamp, children and men work twelve hours “underground”.
The work of the foundry in the ironworks was no less strenuous and dangerous. Without adequate protective clothing and only protected by gloves, he poured the red-hot pig iron into molds.
The products of the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry are shown in the Sayner Hütte room . These include the New Year's plaques, filigree iron jewelry, pieces of furniture and cannons. In the following office, the sales room of the ironworks, the products can be selected and ordered using catalogs. Other exhibits are various art cast furnaces from the production of the Bendorfer Concordiahütte .
The salon shows how the coal and steel entrepreneurs Wilhelm Remy or Lossen lived. Richly decorated tobacco boxes, candlesticks and iron writing utensils decorate this Wilhelminian style room.
The Waschbütt´, stove and iron stove in the worker's kitchen of the Schwartz family “tell” about the hard everyday life .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Sayner Museum is moving . In: Rhein-Zeitung No. 258, Edition B0, from November 7, 2019, page 21.
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 18.4 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 38" E