Economy in Hemer
The economy in Hemer is predominantly industrial. Grown over the metal-working industry, which results from the ore - mining developed in today's city. Today the branch is represented by some wire works and valve manufacturers in Hemer. The world market leader Grohe has its main plant in Hemer and is the largest company in the city. In addition, paper production was an important economic factor until the post-war period, but the industrial structure is now more differentiated.
The importance of agriculture is low, partly because of the relief. The proportion of services in the jobs in Hemer is below average, only the care sector is comparatively large with three clinics and four homes.
Economic development
Time before industrialization
Mining developed in the Hemeraner area around the year 1000 AD . So far around 100 racing ovens have been found in what is now the city. At this time, the underground mining of iron ore began in the Felsenmeer . With an iron content of more than 60 percent, the material was easy to forge. Due to the occurrence of raw materials, iron production in the form of raft ovens developed in Hemer from the 13th century . In these devices , the water power of the streams drove a bellows that heated the furnace . The resulting Osemund was then processed in appropriate forges . Since the 16th century at the latest, there have also been wire rolls in the Hemeraner area , which, like the ovens and forges, are mostly operated by farmers as a sideline.
In the 16th century, more and more watermills were built in Hemer to operate hammer mills and wire rolls. In 1567 the first paper mill of the county Mark was built in Westig, in 1624 another opened in Niederhemer. There was also iron smelting in several localities. The mining of Galmei began around 1650 in the northwest of what is now Hemers. In the Thirty Years War , iron mining and processing was largely stopped. A regular commercial operation was only restored around 50 years later. Papermaking suffered less from the war.
In 1739 the von der Becke family commissioned the first real blast furnace in County Mark in Hemer. Calamine mining grew steadily into the 18th century, and smelting began in Letmathe in 1752 . Since then, wire production has been a particularly important branch of industry in the Ihmert Valley, where around 50 percent of the population was employed in this branch. The number of paper mills rose to 14 in today's urban area by 1800. Johann Diedrich von der Becke opened a thimble factory, for which he received a privilege from the Prussian king in 1712 . By 1800 this factory was the largest of its kind in Europe. Around five million thimbles and sewing rings were produced annually. At that time, Hemer belonged to the Brandenburg economic area, which was then in the process of proto-industrialization .
The economic upswing weakened under Frederick II , as export bans were imposed on many products in the Hemeran economy. Instead, other industries, such as the textile industry , were subsidized. Weaving mills were also established in Niederhemer . Under Napoleonic rule, this problem first worsened. As the competition began, the profitable plants grew again around 1813.
The industrial revolution in Hemer
The industrial revolution in Hemer was particularly evident through the introduction of the steam engine , which replaced water power as the main driving force. The pioneer in Hemer was the paper industry, whose mills were expanded into factories in the 19th century. The manufacturers of nails and other wire-processing factories, which only became established in Hemer in the 19th century, also relied on steam engines early on. Many coils of wire only renewed their technology after 1860 due to a few summers with little rain when the streams did not carry enough water. In this context, some companies merged in order to be able to maintain steam engines. In the 18th century the average number of employees was two, in 1908 it was 15. In the paper industry, mergers were largely absent and many small companies stopped production. Other businesses were taken over by the Ebbinghaus family of manufacturers.
The calamine production in what is now Hemeran urban area increased from 1817 when a zinc smelter was built in Letmathe . Galmei was mined underground in the Krug pit from Nidda in Calle and in the Westig civil engineering, and the Rosenbusch pit also existed above ground in Westig . More than 1000 workers extracted up to 24,000 tons annually (1889). Since the deposits were exhausted and water ingress had repeatedly occurred, mining in Hemer ended in 1899. In the 19th century, mining developed into a zinc processing industry. The nickel silver processing became an important branch in Hemer. Among other things, fittings and cutlery were manufactured in Hemer . The largest factory was Clarfeld & Springmeyer with over 500 employees before the First World War. The Sundwiger Messingwerk processed the zinc obtained by other means and does to this day semis ago.
The origins of Sundwiger Eisenhütte as a mechanical engineering company for rollers also go back to the 19th century. A machine production facility was connected to the Reinhard paper mill .
Development in the 20th century
The export-oriented Hemeraner industry suffered from the global economic crisis towards the end of the 1920s. Some companies went bankrupt , such as the cutlery manufacturer Clarfeld & Springemeyer . Some screw factories were taken over by larger competitors such as Hoesch AG , others were shut down. Most wire factories, on the other hand, survived the crisis, as did the large mechanical engineering companies. The boom for the Hemeraner industry began at the latest with the armament of the German Reich in 1934/35. Until the end of the war, the economy was still almost exclusively dominated by the metal industry.
After the war ended, production started up again relatively quickly, as many products from Hemer were used to rebuild destroyed cities. Structural changes began in the 1950s.
Today's economic structure
Today the economic structure is still industrial. In 2003, 61 percent worked in the manufacturing industry, 38.3 percent of the jobs are in the services sector, and agriculture accounts for 0.7 percent. At 8.5 percent in December 2009, unemployment was above the national average (7.8 percent). A year earlier, 6.6 percent of Hemerans were unemployed. As part of the Märkischer Kreis, Hemer belongs to the region in Germany that was hit hardest by the financial crisis from 2007 onwards. The commuter balance in Hemers was -386 in 2002, 6407 inbound commuters compared to 6793 outbound commuters.
Agriculture
The importance of agriculture is low due to Hemer's natural environment. Due to the relatively high relief energy , only a few contiguous areas can be used. The soil quality is in large parts poor to average and the climate is often too cool. Arable land is still in Landhausen, Deilinghofen and Becke. Since the 1970s, agricultural land, for example in Urbecke , has increasingly been turned into building land. In 2002 there were 54 farms in Hemer, 26 of which are full-time. 12 companies have more than 30 hectares of usable space. The main crops are grain, maize and rapeseed, which are used as fodder and for further processing in the Sundwiger Mühle . The agricultural area of 15.82 square kilometers contains around 5 square kilometers of grassland that is used for pasture farming. In 2003, 2124 pigs, 780 cows, 290 sheep and 181 horses were kept in Hemer. The number of employees in agriculture and forestry in 2002 was 86, and 21 other employees worked in a quarry in Becke.
Manufacturing
Even though the metal processing industry, which has grown historically in Hemer, has steadily lost its importance in recent years, it is still a focus of the Hemeran industry. In Westig, in the Ihmerter and Stephanopeler Tal there are still some wire factories. The largest of these companies are Friedrich Lötters GmbH & Co. KG with 130 and H. Künne & Co. with the wire rope factory Hemer and 100 employees. The number of mechanical engineering companies has also decreased to 37 in recent years, with Andritz Sundwig GmbH (approx. 400 employees) and Ernst Koch GmbH u. Co. KG (120 employees). In Hemer, however, there are no longer any iron foundries .
The largest industrial company in the city is the sanitary fittings manufacturer Grohe , which as the world market leader employs around 1500 people in Hemer. Bathroom accessories are manufactured by the Keuco company, which employs around 400 people. The largest industrial employers now also include companies whose industries in Hemer have no historical roots. MWV Calmar (400 employees) is active in plastics processing, Schulte & Co. GmbH (435 employees) manufactures car accessories. Haltec Hallensysteme and the oil burner manufacturer Giersch are also leaders in their fields .
With a share of 54.1 percent of the workforce, the manufacturing industry continues to be the largest economic segment in Hemer. There are larger commercial areas in Westig (industrial area Eisenbahnschleife), Deilinghofen (industrial park Deilinghofen) and Becke (industrial park Edelburg). Numerous foreign companies settled in the business park in Deilinghofen, which was created after the British barracks there was closed.
Services
The proportion of services in Hemer is comparatively small. There are no supra-local authorities, tourism and insurance are hardly developed. The share of the wholesale trade is in the district average, that of the retail trade far below. Half of Hemer's purchasing power is spent outside the urban area. In an expert opinion in 2007 it was found that the inner city is mainly lacking clothing, electronics and jewelry stores. The city is trying to change this by setting up shopping centers in the city center. The Hademare Center opened in the pedestrian zone in 2009, while the Nöllenhof and Felsenmeer Centers are located on Bahnhofsstraße, which runs parallel . On April 14, 2011, a retail park was opened on a former factory site in the city center, which had been under construction since the previous year.
The tourism is developed only weakly in Hemer, although the Heinrichshöhle and rocks Sea natural monuments are present. These are currently hardly developed and are almost only visited by day tourists. There are four hotels and five guest houses in Hemer, as well as a leisure home for young people. The occupancy of the 114 beds is almost 30 percent.
There are three clinics and four nursing homes in Hemer. The former official hospital has been part of the Paracelsus clinics since 1984 . The Hemer Lung Clinic and the Hemer LWL Clinic for Psychiatry are of paramount importance. With a total of around 800 employees, the clinics are an important economic factor. There are also 56 resident doctors and eight pharmacies (as of 2005).
The Stadtwerke Hemer are one of the main suppliers of gas and water in the city. The power supply is provided by RWE and the Ihmert energy supply , in whose catchment area in the Ihmert valley almost 3800 people live. The city takes over the sewage disposal. In 2002 there were 2042 employees in public and private services and 44 in energy and water supply. In addition, around 315 employees worked in public administration.
Hemer is the seat of the Sparkasse Märkisches Sauerland Hemer-Menden , which was created in 2009 through the merger of the formerly independent Stadtsparkasse Hemer with the Sparkasse Menden . The Mendener Sparkasse had previously got into financial difficulties and had to rely on a merger. In addition, there are branches of the Märkische Bank , the Volksbank in Südwestfalen and the Commerzbank in Hemer . In 2002 around 300 employees worked in the banking and insurance industry in Hemer.
Companies from the fields of research and development have been based in the Center for Security and Disaster Protection Technology (ZSK) since 2007 . On the conversion site of the former Blücher barracks, around 20 companies are working together on mine clearance and forest fire fighting projects. The ZSK created around 100 jobs by the end of 2008.
Economic prospects
The Hemer State Horticultural Show 2010 led to growth in the tourism sector . The sea of rocks was made more attractive in this context. To the north of it, the Sauerlandpark was built with the Jübergturm as the city's new landmark.
The traffic connection in Hemer is mainly via the A 46 , the gap between Hemer and Neheim is being discussed. The route in Hemer is fixed; The section should be completed by 2023. With the construction of the motorway, the factories of the large companies Grohe and Keuco would be better connected to the long-distance network. The construction of a west bypass between Hemerhardt and Westig would improve the connection to the Eisenbahnschleife industrial park . The Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia declared the development plan for the construction of the western bypass to be ineffective by judgment of April 19, 2007 - 7 D 118 / 06.NE.
Business promotion
The property and business development company (GWG) was founded in 1992 as a 100 percent subsidiary of the city of Hemer. The aim of the GWG is to strengthen the Hemeran economy, for example through new settlements. Among other things, the GWG marketed the properties in the various industrial areas. In addition, the GWG is to bundle competencies in the field of mechanical engineering and measurement technology , and thus to ensure agglomeration advantages in Hemer. For this reason, the company belongs to the Inno industrial network in the northern Märkisches Kreis.
The Hemer Business Initiative (WIH) is an amalgamation of Hemer-based companies to increase the competitiveness and attractiveness of Hemer's business location. Since the dissolution of the advertising association Der Hemeraner , a retail committee has belonged to the WIH. Together with initiatives from Iserlohn, Menden and Balve, WIH is part of the North District Economic Initiative (WIN), which was established in 2000. WIN is intended to support the municipal network of Balve, Hemer, Iserlohn and Menden . One of the aims of the initiative is to set up an intermunicipal business park.
literature
- Hugo Banniza: The Primer. Volume 5: Old mining in the former Hemer office. Hemer 1980.
- Hans-Hermann Stopsack: From the water wheel to the factory. On the economic, industrial and social history of the Hemer area from the beginnings to the First World War. Self-published, Hemer 2003. ISBN 3-00-012287-7
- Hans-Hermann Stopsack: Driven by water. Streams, ditches, water wheels and turbines in the Hemer area from the 16th century to the present day. Self-published, Hemer 2007.
Web links
- Economy on the official website of the city of Hemer
- Internet presence of the Hemer economic initiative
Individual evidence
- ↑ IKZ Hemer: 1585 Hemeraner are unemployed ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published January 6, 2010, accessed January 13, 2010
- ↑ Crisis Affected Index of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research (PDF file; 1.1 MB), accessed on January 13, 2010
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Hans-Hermann Stopsack: Hemer. in: Geographical Commission for Westphalia (Hrsg.): Cities and municipalities in Westphalia: Der Märkische Kreis. Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 2005. ISBN 3-402-06274-7 .
- ^ Business location at hemer.de , accessed on January 14, 2010
- ↑ IKZ Hemer: Offers of a city location are missing , published on August 20, 2007, accessed on January 14, 2010
- ↑ Ten Brinke industrial and commercial buildings : Hemer, creation of a retail park , accessed on January 12, 2011
- ↑ hemer.de: Specialist market center has opened! - “Have done something for the future again” ( Memento from June 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on August 26, 2011
- ↑ Quality report ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Paracelsus Clinic Hemer, A-14 (PDF file), accessed on January 13, 2010
- ↑ General structural and performance data of the Hemer Lung Clinic, A-1.3.1 (PDF file), accessed on January 13, 2010
- ↑ Structured quality report of the LWL-Klinik Hemer, A-14 (PDF file; 1.9 MB), accessed on January 12, 2010
- ↑ Network structure data from Energieversorgung Ihmert , accessed on January 13, 2010
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: GSW-Consulting GmbH - Security and Disaster Protection from Hemer , PDF file
- ↑ Straßen.NRW : Closing the gaps on motorways , accessed on January 15, 2010
- ^ Economic development at hemer.de , accessed on January 15, 2010
- ↑ IKZ Hemer: Cities in Financial Crisis: WIN would like to think along and also help ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , published December 3, 2009, accessed January 15, 2010
