Neuhall salt works (Davenstedt)

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The Saline Neuhall at Davenstedt against Hannover was operated from the mid-19th century Saline to produce salt .

history

At the time of industrialization in the Kingdom of Hanover , the company Gebrüder Niemeyer & Co. was founded in 1852 to operate a plant called Neuhall for the production of evaporated salt near Egestorffshall .

Also starting in the 1850s fed sources of the two adjacent salt pans the small river Foesse , making the Hanoverian in Fössebad to benefit from brine baths came.

Around the time when the German Empire was founded , the salt works produced up to around 500,000 kg of table salt in 1874 with nine boiling pans . The year before, Neuhall had passed into the ownership of the Georg Egestorff Salzwerke corporation in 1873 .

Like Egestorffshall, Neuhall was shut down in the mid-1960s.

literature

  • Michael Kurth: The old salt works. 1831-1965. Badenstedt and Davenstedt under the sign of their Egestorffshall and Neuhall salt works. History and stories about the everyday life of the people in front of and behind the factory walls (= district cultural work - for example Hanover , vol. 2), ed. from the state capital Hanover, the senior city director, cultural office, 1991
  • Torsten Bachmann : White gold from Badenstedt and Davenstedt. History of salt production in Egestorfshall and Neuhall , in: Hallo Ahlem, May 5, 2013, p. 4; also as a PDF document from torsten-bachmann.de

Archival material

Archival material from and about the Neuhall salt works and the Niemeyer brothers can be found, for example

  • in the Lower Saxony State Archive (Hanover location) as a file under the title Plant of a Saline by the Niemeyer brothers in the Davenstedt field for the period from 1852 to 1853, in the category Unzünstige Gewerbe - including mills, waiting with music, guest, jug and Bars, factories, manufactories , archive signature NLA HA Hann. 80 Hannover No. 09487 (old archive signature: Br No. 154 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Ludwig Hoerner : Agents, Bader and Copisten. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , p. 27, especially p. 385; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ Michael Kurth: The old salt works. 1831 - 1965. Badenstedt and Davenstedt under the sign of their salt pans Egestorffshall and Neuhall. History and stories about the everyday life of the people in front of and behind the factory walls , ed. from the state capital Hanover, the senior city director, cultural office, 1991
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the Arcinsys Lower Saxony archive information system

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 44.4"  E