Brick factory location
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| place | Location (lip) |
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Industrial museum , brickwork museum
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| opening | 2001 |
| management |
Willi Kulke
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-498219 |
The Lage brickworks is one of eight locations of the LWL Industrial Museum in Lage , North Rhine-Westphalia . The brickworks produced masonry bricks from 1909 to 1979 , and in 2001 the completely preserved facility became a museum. It is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage .
history
founding
The Lage brickworks was founded in 1909 north of Lage between Hagen and Sylbach by the brickworker Gustav Beermann (1882–1965) and the entrepreneur Friedrich Bobe as a Sylbacher Dampfziegelei . Beermann was initially a traveling bricklayer, later a worker in his father's brick factory. He invested 12,000 Reichsmarks in the brick company founded in 1909. In 1914 he paid off his partner Friedrich Bobe and became the sole owner. Until it was closed in 1979, the brickworks was a family business .
Workforce
Throughout its history, from 1909 to 1979, work in the brickworks was seasonal . Since the clay could only be mined and processed outside of the frost period, production ran from March to October. In the 70 years of the brickyard's existence, the workforce comprised around 30 people, in the last 10 years it was only up to 10 people. Production was suspended during the First and Second World Wars .
production
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In the early years, brick making was predominant. The clay stitch took place in a pit right next to the brickworks, in which around 5 workers mined up to 10 tons of clay every day using hand stitching. The clay was pulled to the factory by horses in freight carts. Around 15 workers made it into bricks by hand. The annual production of the 30-strong workforce in 1914 was around 1 million bricks.
The mechanical brick production with the help of a steam engine was introduced in 1922 because the demand for bricks had increased after the First World War. The measure improved the brick quality and increased the production volume to 3 million bricks per year. The taking of large loans for modernization and the Great Depression led the company in 1930 to severe economic difficulties. The company came under administrative administration, which lasted until 1939. With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, production was stopped. Only after the war was the owner Gustav Beermann able to continue his brick factory. Because of the general shortage of coal , which was necessary to fire the kiln, bricks could not be baked again until 1947. In the post-war period there was a strong economic boom for the brickworks, as the rebuilding of the destroyed cities resulted in a high demand for building materials. In 1949, the clay extraction was mechanized using a bucket chain excavator in order to save personnel costs for hand stitching. Further improvements were made to the machines, including the conversion from steam power to a diesel engine in 1954 . From the end of the 1950s, Gustav Beermann's two sons continued to run the company and in the 1960s they invested in additional systems and technical improvements. In the 1960s, Italian guest workers were recruited from Friuli due to a lack of workers for the heavy brickworks . At the end of the 1970s, the clay deposits next to the brickworks ran out, which was then shut down in 1979.
museum
In 1980 the city of Lage, the Lippe district and the Lippe regional association acquired the disused brickworks with all of its buildings and machines. The plant was taken over in 1982 by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe , which made it a location for the LWL industrial museum. The museum was opened in 2001 after the buildings, machines and systems that were taken over were restored. A new exhibition building was also built. Because of the many functional facilities in the old brickworks, the museum is a producing museum with demonstrations on certain dates throughout the year. In Hoffmann's circular kiln bricks are made once a year for a few days. Visitors can form individual bricks by hand.
A permanent exhibition on the history of brick production, as well as the hiking Ziegler beings .
In 2016 the museum presented the special exhibition On the pursuit of happiness - 200 years of emigration from Westphalia to America, for which a catalog was published.
See also
literature
- Andreas Immenkamp (Ed.): Museum guide brickworks location. Essen, 2001, ISBN 3-89861-008-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 30 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 43 ″ E