Wilhelm Castendyck

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Ironworks inspector Wilhelm Castendyck around 1855

Wilhelm Castendyck (born August 11, 1824 in Oberwetz ; † January 24, 1895 in Schlewecke ; full name: Wilhelm Peter Louis Castendyck ) was a German mining engineer , most recently as mine director in Harzburg .

Live and act

Wilhelm Castendyck was born on August 11, 1824 as the son of the Solms-Braunfels tax administrator Friedrich Christian Ludwig Castendyck, called Louis Castendyck (born April 11, 1794 in Ulm (Greifenstein) ; † July 3, 1876 in Gemünden (Westerwald) ) and his wife Elisabeth born Lehr (born April 25, 1800 in Oberwetz, † February 19, 1866 in Oberwetz) was born in Oberwetz.

Castendyck completed his mining training between 1842 and 1844 in the Sauerland and Siegerland. On behalf of the Siegen Mining Authority, he and Wagner examined the Balver Cave.

The Olsberger Hütte around 1855, lithograph after a drawing by W. Castendyck

From 1844 to 1848 Castendyck was a mountain official at the mining offices in Brilon and Arnsberg , and from 1850 to 1853 the hut manager of the Gravenhorster hut (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte-Eisenhütte) near Ibbenbüren . Subsequently, from 1854 to 1857, Castendyck was the smelter inspector of the Olsberger Hütte .

From 1857 to 1859 Wilhelm Castendyck was director and co-owner of the Ither Hütte near Bodenwerder .

1859–1861 Castendyck discovered minable ironstone deposits near Neustadt-Harzburg. On the basis of his initiative, consul Hermann Henrich Meier from Bremen financed the Harzburg iron ore mines Hansa and Friederike ; the latter was named after Castendyck's former wife. Between 1860 and 1861 Mathildenhütte and the Friederikengrube were built and put into operation. From 1862–1872, mine director W. Castendyck was initially the technical manager of the Mathildenhütte and the Friederikengrube, later his responsibility was limited to the Friederikengrube. In 1872 he joined the board of directors and was responsible for the iron mines until 1881.

On the initiative of Castendyck, the Canossa column , the first "Bismarck monument", was erected on the Great Castle Hill near Bad Harzburg in 1875–1877 .

In 1883 he was instrumental in drilling the potash salt deposits in Vienenburg and founding the Hercynia trade union .

In 1888, mine director Wilhelm Castendyck discovered a spring in Gerolstein by chance while drilling. He gave his friend, Hofrat Prof. Dr. Carl Remigius Fresenius , a water sample. Fresenius analyzed the carbonated water and determined the excellent quality. Then Castendyck founded Gerolsteiner Sprudel GmbH , which initially filled and sold the mineral water in clay pots. He sold the company in 1889.

In 1892 Castendyck founded the Beienrode potash works near Königslutter .

Military service

Castendyck did his military service from October 1, 1845 to September 30, 1846 as a one-year volunteer with the 4th Rhenish Rifle Department in Wetzlar . Wilhelm Castendyck was later assigned to the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Westphalian Landwehr Regiment No. 16 in Meschede . With this unit he was promoted to second lieutenant on October 21, 1848 .

Castendyck took part in the Schleswig-Holstein War from March 27, 1849 to September 5, 1849 and from November 1850 to January 31, 1851 . During that war, on September 20, 1859, C. was promoted to Premier Lieutenant . From May 1866 to October 7, 1866 Castendyck took part in the German War as a company commander. On September 22, 1866 Wilhelm Castendyck was promoted to captain .

family

Wilhelm Castendyck married Frederike Johanne Nelle on July 10, 1860 in Bad Pyrmont (born July 18, 1842 in Bad Pyrmont, † March 26, 1893 in Wiesbaden ). The following children were born from this marriage:

  1. Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Castendyck (born August 28, 1861 in Bad Harzburg, † April 25, 1931 in Rülau near Schwarzenbek ),
    captain
  2. Elisabeth Marie Johanne Castendyck (born December 30, 1862 in Bad Harzburg, † March 10, 1937 in Bandelstorf near Rostock ),
  3. Marie Louise Friederike Wilhelmine Castendyck (* August 8, 1864 in Bad Harzburg; † September 23, 1927 in Jena ),
  4. Wilhelm Friedrich Karl Castendyck (born July 22, 1866 in Bad Harzburg, † June 25, 1925 in Bad Kissingen ),
    Forstrat and Dr. of philosophy
  5. Berthold August Georg Karl Emil Castendyck (born April 1, 1868 in Bad Harzburg, † March 5, 1882 in Halle (Saale) ),
  6. Gertrud Agnes Adolfine Ottilie Castendyck (born March 25, 1870 in Bad Harzburg; †),

literature

  • Gerhard Laub: Iron extraction in the former Harzburg office and its industrial development under Wilhelm Castendyck. Bad Harzburg 1988, DNB 966161025 .
  • Siegfried Kessemeier: Olsberg hut views - surprising finds. In: Goldene Zeiten, Sauerland economic citizens from the 17th to the 19th century. Klartext-Verlagsgesellschaft, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89861-006-3 , pp. 62ff and 354ff.
  • Hans-Martin Köster: Ironworks inspector Wilhelm Castendyck tells. In: The Olsberger Hut. Olsberg 1991, ISBN 3-922659-84-5 , pp. 88-97.
  • Hans-Martin Köster: The Roteisenstein deposit of the “Briloner Eisenstein” mine near Olsberg. In: Strunzerdaal. No. 7/1988, ISSN  0932-8211 , pp. 49-61.
  • Heinrich Dornmeier: “We're not going to Canossa” The Harzburg Bismarck monument in the culture war. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History. Volume 62, Hannover 1990, ISSN  0078-0561 , pp. 223-264.
The Canossa column in Bad Harzburg

Works

  • Memories. 5 issues (approx. 1886–1890), unpublished
  • Castendyck's notes on his military service and Olsberg time (to his lover Luise), unpublished
  • Pocherze. A pile of little poems. Braunschweig 1867, OCLC 246816223 .
  • About the occurrence of the Galmeies near Brilon in Westphalia. In: Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitung with special consideration of mineralogy and geology. 9th year, 1850, No. 44, pp. 689-693 and No. 45, pp. 707-710.
  • Geognostic - mining notes about the iron stones of the Lahn and their storage conditions, preferably in the area of ​​Wetzlar. In: Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitung. Volume 10, No. 11, 1851, pp. 161–168, 188–194
  • The Rochusberg or Röchelsknapp near Ibbenbühren. In: Negotiations of the Natural History Association of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalia. Volume 10th year, Bonn 1853, pp. 140–151.
  • Comments on the smelting of lawn iron stones. In: Berg- und Hüttenmännische Zeitung. Volume 12, No. 50, 1853, pp. 873–874.
  • Geognostic sketch from north-western Germany. In: Leonhard and Bronn: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts. Year 1853, pp. 31–37.
  • Geognostic overview of the Westphalian Sauerland: Olsberger ironworks near Brilon in Westphalen, February 28, 1854. In: Leonhard and Bronn: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts. Year 1854, pp. 314–319.
  • The Rotheisen deposit of the Briloner Eisenberg mine near Olsberg. In: Journal of the German Geological Society. Volume 7, 1855, pp. 253-260.
  • The area around Wildungen in the Principality of Waldeck. In: Leonhard and Bronn: New yearbook for mineralogy, geognosy, geology and petrefacts. Year 1856, pp. 140–145.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Bleicher: The meaning of the Iron Age cave finds of the Hönnetal. 1991, p. 23.
  2. ^ Gerhard Laub: Iron extraction in the former Harzburg office and its industrial development under Wilhelm Castendyck. Bad Harzburg 1988, pp. 49-50.
  3. ^ Gerhard Laub: Iron extraction in the former Harzburg office and its industrial development under Wilhelm Castendyck. Bad Harzburg 1988, p. 9ff.
  4. ↑ Heinrich Dorn Meier: After Canossa we do not go! The Harzburg Bismarck Monument in the Kulturkampf. In: Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . tape 62 , 1990, ISSN  0078-0561 , pp. 223-264 .
  5. ↑ http://www.gerolsteiner.de/
  6. ↑ http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/
  7. ^ Gerhard Laub: Iron extraction in the former Harzburg office and its industrial development under Wilhelm Castendyck. Bad Harzburg 1988, p. 50.
  8. ↑ Hans-Martin Köster: The Roteisenstein deposit of the “Briloner Eisenstein” mine near Olsberg. In: Strunzerdaal , No. 7/1988, ISSN  0932-8211 , p. 50.


personal data
SURNAME Castendyck, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Castendyck, Wilhelm Peter Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mining engineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwetz
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1895
Place of death Schlewecke