Steinfurt zinc smelter
The zinc smelter Steinfurt is a former zinc smelter founded in 1850 in the then Eschweiler district of Steinfurt . It was operated by the Allianz - anonymous society for mining and smelting operations near Stolberg, founded in 1851, with six, later twelve, reduction furnaces. It had the lowest capacity of the four zinc smelters in the Eschweiler-Stolberg area .
In 1859, the Mannheim Badische Zinkgesellschaft , founded on August 3, 1855, took over the company after Allianz AG had been dissolved in 1856. After its final closure, P. Peters Fabrik feuerfester Produkte GmbH took over the site on Probsteistraße opposite today's Stolberg main station , the area of which went from Eschweiler to Stolberg in 1935 together with the zinc works and the Steinfurt district.
Literature and Sources
- Erdmann, Walter: Eschweiler coal already in Roman times? - On the history of coal mining in the Indemulde . In: Series of publications by the Eschweiler Geschichtsverein, vol. 5, p. 27ff, Eschweiler 1983.
- Kauling, Gregor u. Oediger, Hermann-Lambert: Coal and iron in the Inderevier - the early industrial center in Eschweiler , ed. vd RWTH Aachen, Aachen 1989.
- Küpper, Simon: The Eschweiler Kohlberg . In: Series of publications by the Eschweiler Geschichtsverein, vol. 2, p. 14ff, Eschweiler 1979.
- Willms, Christa: Eschweiler, a mining and industrial town of the 19th century , Wiss. Work at the Economic Geography Institute, ed. vd University of Cologne, Cologne 1958.
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '35 " N , 6 ° 13' 45" E