Seilwerke Puth
The Heinrich Puth limited partnership , founded in 1848 by Heinrich Puth (1821–1912), was an important employer in Blankenstein . The ropes were mainly made for mining, but household yarns were also made. The company recently housed a hemp rope factory, a wire rope factory with galvanizing and a department for the production of threads and ropes made of plastic. In the meantime, up to 500 people were employed, at last 150 people were employed. The company was in 1981 in the bankruptcy . The building and site lay fallow.
The area was auctioned in 1998 by the Hattinger Wohnstätten . The company Jessberger und Partner carried out a contaminated site remediation from April 1999. There was a competition for the new development concept. Construction work began in 2003. The old facade and the workshop were retained and integrated into the new residential and shopping complex in the Puth district .
literature
- How is the service life of wire ropes extended? Advertising booklet of the Heinrich Puth Kom.-Ges. in Blankenstein-Ruhr, around 1935
- A. Hartmann: Activation of old locations for residential construction, illustrated using the example of the former Puth rope works in Hattingen Blankenstein , diploma thesis at FWI Bochum, 1999
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 36 ″ E