Crucible cast monument

Crucible cast memorial on the grounds of the ThyssenKrupp headquarters

The crucible cast monument is located in the Krupp belt on Altendorfer Strasse in the Westviertel district of Essen and is reminiscent of the crucible steel production in the former Krupp cast steel factory .

history

The memorial consists of a semicircular wall made of red sandstone, on the inside of which cast plates show the work steps in the production of Krupp crucible steel, from making the casting molds to cleaning the finished casting. Thus, a steel memorial was erected for steel production , which is 22 meters long and weighs around nine tons in the form of a semi-arch.

It was designed in 1935 by the Berlin sculptor Artur Hoffmann on behalf of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and his wife Bertha Krupp before the Second World War . But due to a shortage of materials and other adversities, it could only be carried out after the war and installed in 1952. Since then, it has been reminiscent of the Krupp production facility, which, as part of the cast steel factory, was only about a hundred meters away. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach did not live to see the completion of the monument, as he had died in 1950.

The company's founder, Friedrich Krupp , was able to manufacture the crucible steel, which was then high-quality, as early as 1823, even if the results remained unclear and important metallurgical relationships could not yet be explained.

The crucible cast memorial has been entered in the monuments list of the city of Essen since 1990.

Steps of crucible steel production

• Steps of crucible steel production in single images
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  Step 1: making the mold

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  Step 2: Liquefaction of the casting material in melting furnaces

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  Step 3: potting (filling the mold)

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  Step 4: taking the cast steel out of the mold

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  Step 5: cleaning the raw casting (cleaning)

Web links

Commons : Tiegelgussdenkmal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~5~10532

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beyer, Burkhard: From crucible steel to Krupp steel. Technical and company history of Friedrich Krupp's cast steel factory in the first half of the 19th century. Essen: Klartext Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-89861-506-8
2. ↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; accessed on January 9, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 34.4 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 36.6"  E