Bredt shovel factory
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 48.8 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 10.1 ″ E
The A. Bredt & Co. company in Witten traded as a sheet steel rolling mill and shovel factory , it manufactured shovels and other iron goods .
The company emerged in 1897 from the predecessor A. Buß & Co. that had been manufacturing shovels and spades at the Witten location since 1874. After August Bredt from Gotha took a stake in the Buß company, he finally took over the company. According to their own statement, the top product was the "Ruhrspaten". The shovels and spades were delivered all over the world under the brand name PIK AS.
Until 1960 it used the water of the mill ditch in Witten to drive the drop hammers of a spade and shovel mechanism.
From 1922 to 1925 the company, which at that time had the legal form of a stock corporation , built the Hohenstein hydropower plant about 1.5 km upstream , which is now operated by RWE Power . The inflation made the construction of the power plant so expensive that the company was in financial distress until Gußstahlwerk Witten AG took part in the project.
During the Nazi era , the plant employed slave labor and maintained a labor camp with 90 inmates in Nachtigallstrasse, of which several concrete pillars still stand. ( Location )
On July 1, 1971, the company merged with its competitor, Idealspaten- und Schaufelwalzwerke vorm. Eckardt & Co. GmbH in Herdecke to the Idealspaten -Bredt GmbH & Co. KG . In 1978 production was relocated entirely to Herdecke.
The carpet business, Teppichland, was located in the former factory in Witten until 2012 . The property and the building are still owned by Idealspaten-Bredt .
literature
- Fritz Risse: 70 years of the Hohenstein power station in the Ruhr. VEW Energie AG, Dortmund 1995, p. 7.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lehmann, Ludwig (ed.). 125 years of the city of Witten. S.XVII.
- ^ Susanne Linka: Property on Ruhrstrasse. Carpet country closes. new discussion starts. Ruhr Nachrichten , March 3, 2012, accessed on November 19, 2012 .