Saline Georgenhall

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The Georgshall salt works in Linden (excerpt from the city map of Hanover and Linden (1901), Klindworth's Verlag)

The Saline Georgshall or Saline Georgenhall in Hanover , later called Saline Georgenhall Garben & Eichwede , was a saltworks founded in the 19th century .

History and description

In the early years of the German Empire , the entrepreneur Georg Garben, who until October 1881 was a co-owner of the Luisenhall saltworks in Grone near Göttingen , founded the Georgenhall saltworks in 1882 or 1883. The address of the company, which was first mentioned in the city of Hanover's address book the following year , was Davenstedter Strasse 10 in Linden .

During the extraction, sheaves could hope for a never-ending supply thanks to the salt deposits found in several salt domes at shallow depths in the Calenberger Land . The extensive Benther salt dome was also used by the Egestorffshall and Neuhall salt pans . Around 1900, the Ronnenberg and Empelde potash salt works and the Benthe saltworks were to be founded on the salt dome .

However, the natural brine was lifted from a 200 meter deep borehole. It contained 27% sodium chloride with a few minor salts. The extracted brine was fully saturated and was first cleaned in Georgenhall's extensive facilities and then processed into evaporated salt . For this purpose, the brine was soaked on five pans with a total area of ​​422 m² without graduation. Hard coal from the Deister was used for heating . Five grain sizes were produced in this way, the brewing salt was then dried on wooden trays and finally sold in jute sacks of 50, 60, 5, 75 and 100 kg. In 1904 the total production amounted to 6455 tons.

Georg Garben built the saltworks together with Eduard Weber from 1882. After the separation of the business partners and the entry of the previous authorized signatory Grote, the company was called Saline Georgenhall Garben & Grote from July 1883 . In 1907, Garben accepted his brother-in-law Christian Eichwede into the industrially developed company , a descendant of the co-owner of the art foundry Bernstorff & Eichwede , who, for example, cast the Ernst August memorial in front of Hanover main station or the Sachsenross in front of the Welfenschloss on behalf of King George V. would have. The company was subsequently called Saline Georgenhall Garben & Eichwede .

In the post-war period in the mid-1950s, around 440,000 quintals of evaporated salt left the saltworks as table , industrial or cattle salt in trucks over the road or the rails of the railroad connection. In addition to North and West Germany , the Scandinavian countries and West Africa were also supplied. At that time, the local population made the highest demands on the evaporated salt, which was delivered in snow-white bags with the imprint "German Salt". After delivery, the sacks were measured with a folding rule to ensure that they were the correct size, as the locals did not buy by weight, but by measure.

As early as the mid-1950s, the sale of salt stagnated, as the required amount in per capita consumption of the population was a constant maximum of 7–8 kilograms per year.

Reuse

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A shopping center was built on the site of the disused salt works around 1980 .

As a remnant of the saltworks, a siding of the Lindener Hafenbahn ran across Davenstedter Straße to the building wall until the 1990s .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ludwig Hoerner : Saline owner / salt merchant , in this: agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 385; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Heinz Lauenroth (ed.): Natura-Werk, Gebr. Hiller , in ders .: Hanover. Face of a lively city , Hanover; Berlin: Verlag Dr. Buhrbanck & Co. KG, 1955, pp. 226, 250; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ http://www.salinas.de : History of the Saline Luisenhall , accessed on January 24, 2020
  4. ↑ a b c Joseph Ottokar von Buschmann : The salt, its occurrence and utilization in all countries of the world , ed. with the support of the Imperial Academy of Science in Vienna, from the Treitl Foundation, Volume 1: Europe , Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1909, p. 104; Digitized via the Bavarian State Library
  5. ↑ www.postkarten-archiv.de: 1882 Saline Georgenhall, Saline Georgenhall Garben & Grote, Saline Georgenhall Garben & Eichwede OHG , accessed on January 24, 2020

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '59.8 "  N , 9 ° 41' 55.7"  E