Wilhelmshütte (Dautphetal)

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Wilhelmshütte (in the past also Kilianshütte ) is a commercial settlement in the central Hessian community of Dautphetal . Like the places Amelose and Carlshütte, it does not have the status of a district within today's municipality, since it is located on the boundaries of the former municipalities of Dautphe and Wolfgruben and was part of them. The place emerged from the construction of an ironworks in 1832 by Justus Kilian . When the hut was sold to Count Wilhelm von Reichenbach -Lessonitz, both the plant and the place received their current name.

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History of the ironworks

The Biedenkopfer Justus Kilian received in 1831 by the Government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse permission on the Lahn approximately 1.5 km northeast of Dautphe and 750 meters southeast of Wolfsgruben a molten iron with a rod and a Zainhammer to build. From 1832 he had the Kilianshütte named after him built, which went into operation in 1834. He obtained the iron stones from his own pits around Biedenkopf and Dillenburg , the charcoal also from local charcoal production . Initially, the factory produced wheel tires and hoof sticks from forged iron , after 1840 Kilian expanded the product range to include small iron parts. Kilian, who had built another ironworks in Gladenbach with the Justushütte and had previously financed this from his personal fortune, ran into financial difficulties as a result. Since he was denied state support , he sold Kilianshütte, estimated at 431,500 thalers in 1849 by Prof. Klipstein from Gießen and Oberhütteninspektor Zintgraff from Siegen, at the end of 1852 for 92,000 thalers to Count Wilhelm von Reichenbach-Lessonitz, an illegitimate son of Wilhelm II, Elector of Hesse-Kassel . The Kilianshütte has now been renamed after its new owner. After his death in 1866, Reichenbach-Lessonitz's heirs, Countess Amélie von Reichenbach-Lessonitz and Princess Pauline von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , received the Wilhelmshütte. The construction of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway and due to lack of wood was the end of the 19th century from the blast furnace - the Kupolofenproduktion changed. The administrator and authorized representative of Wilhelmshütte, Finanzrat Seitz, handed over the hut to the Hessen-Nassau Hüttenverein in 1898 , which was merged into the Buderus ironworks in 1935 . After the Second World War , the smelter, which had been converted into an iron foundry, remained under the umbrella of the Buderus company until it was closed in 1974.

The Elkamet company has been manufacturing nylon containers on the site of the former Wilhelmshütte since 1996 .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 8 ° 33'  E