Rolandshütte
The Rolandshütte was a steelworks in what is now the Siegen district of Weidenau in Siegerland .
Rolandshütte was founded in 1867 by entrepreneurs from Siegerland and Bremen financiers. By 1875, two blast furnaces were put into operation near the Weidenau train station. These soon reached productions of 100 tons per day. In 1898 the iron and steel company took over the Eiserfeld mine Gilberg on the slopes of the mountain of the same name and the associated Haardter ironworks with a daily production of 30 t.
The owners of the Rolandshütte changed several times until Hochofenwerk Lübeck AG only acquired the hut in 1914 and its shares a year later. In 1924 the operation was stopped for the first time. A year later, the hut was reopened as a test facility. In 1929 the operation was finally given up, in 1931 the smelting works were demolished.
Until the commissioning of the light railroad with a track width of 700 mm in 1886, the slag was transported to a dump with carts. The railway crossed the Sieg and the Sandstraße and carried still glowing slag to the dump, which was located in today's industrial area Herrenwiese. A factory for the production of cinder blocks was built next to the railway because the space available for the storage of cinder blocks was limited.
Individual evidence
- ^ Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV (ed.): In the land of ore mines, ironworks and Hauberge - on the way with the photographer Peter Weller. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2011, p. 62.
literature
- Andreas Christopher, Gerhard Moll, Achim Schönberger: Private and Works Railways in Siegerland , Verlag Kenning, 1995, ISBN 3-927587-27-3 , page 93.
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '53.4 " N , 8 ° 1' 49.7" E