Tanner Hut
The Tanner Hütte was an ironworks on the Warmen Bode in Tanne in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . Today it is considered to be one of the oldest steelworks in the Harz Mountains and was in operation from 1355 to 1964 with brief interruptions.
history
Silver was found at an early stage on the old Thuringian Way , which ran across the Harz Mountains near the present-day town of Tanne . This is still reminiscent of the field name Silberkulk , where in 1226 the noble Bertoldus von Othstedt, who came from the southern Harz, was robbed and killed by highwaymen. Below Tanne and about 200 m before the confluence of the Allerbach there was one of the largest still preserved piles of copper smelting in the Bode catchment area until about 60 years ago (according to BODE 1928/29: area: 80 × 55 m, height: 6 m ). These are relics of the most important medieval copper smelter in the Bode catchment area, which was in operation at the beginning of the 13th century, was abandoned before 1528 and then functioned as a sawmill.
In the area of today's Tanne, iron and copper smelting can be traced back to the early 13th century. The oldest of these smelting facilities was the copper smelter on Silberkulk, which was first mentioned in 1226 as silverkolch . This hut appears again in the list of properties of the County of Regenstein in 1262, this time as casam, que in vulgari appelatur sylverkolch . However, this is no longer mentioned later, but from 1355 onwards the hut tor Dannen is mentioned .
The later Tanner Hütte stated that it was founded in 1335. The hut was first mentioned in documents in 1355, when the Counts of Regenstein received the hut and the Tanne settlement from Bishop Albrecht II of Halberstadt as a fief. In 1427 the hut came into the possession of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . After it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , the hut was rebuilt in 1654 and reopened in 1655. In 1667 the hut became the property of the princes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In 1860 the smelter was converted into a foundry with a rolling mill and in 1867 all smelters owned by the state of Braunschweig were sold to the Eltzbacher & Co bank in Cologne. The Tanner Hütte will initially be closed. A petition from the Tanner population to the ducal government in Braunschweig followed, the existence of the place depended on the continued existence of the hut. In 1871/72 the works went back into operation, the workers had founded a workers' production cooperative and continued to run the works as a stock corporation.
In the period after the First World War, the plant ran into economic difficulties. In 1922 the company Eberhardt & Co took over the management and in 1926 the hut was sold to the sales representative Max Obiger. In 1929 the hut went bankrupt due to manipulation of the business books and balance sheets while Obiger was in charge. In 1930 the workforce founded another joint stock company. The "Tanner Hütte Eisengußwaren-AG" produced until 1945. The factory had been badly damaged by the direct effects of the war, but went back into operation in March 1946. Then in 1950 the hut was publicly owned and the workers received compensation. In 1952 the foundries in Tanne and Königshütte were merged to form the VEB (K) foundry and furnace construction Tanne-Königshütte. The "VEB foundry and furnace construction division Tanner Hütte" ceased production in 1965/66. A new, more modern foundry was built in Königshütte, which now took over production and personnel.
Memorial stone
In 2009, a memorial stone for the Tanner Hut with the dates 1335–1964 was erected on the edge of the former company premises.
Mining
The history of the Tanner Hütte is closely linked to mining in the area around Tanne. Tanner Hütter has been receiving iron ore from Tanner mines since the 13th century. The oldest mining activities can be dated back to the 13th century. The most famous tunnel system was the Gertrud colliery on the Giepenbach between Tanne and Trautenstein. The colliery is first mentioned in 1675 as Güpenbach . The mining of iron ore and non-ferrous metals is carried out in the first mining phase until 1837. In 1873 the mine was reopened as Giepenbachsgrubenfeld, later Gertrud colliery. The last mining activities ended in 1925. Most of the other tunnels only existed for a short time and were closed in the 19th century due to the inaccessibility of the deposits.
swell
- Wínfried Dörner: The Südharz Railway - a region and its railway. Papierflieger Druck und Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89720-929-9 (chapter on Tanner Hütte)
- Christian Resow: Tanne - From the history of an old hut , self-published by the Harzklub-Zweigverein Tanne e. V. 2011.
- Helmut Matthies: Facts worth knowing about Tanne / Harz , Jever 1990, reprint
- Karl Steinacker: The architectural and art monuments of the Blankenburg district , Wolfenbüttel 1922
- Tanne Heimatstube, exhibition on the Tanner Hut (time table)
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 47 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 12.3" E