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Werksstraße 31-33
45527 Hattingen
Fon 0 23 24 | 9 24 71 40
www.henrichshuette.de
Geodaten
51° 24′ 27" N, 7° 11′ 18" O
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ÖPNV
Von Hattingen Mitte / Bochum Hbf mit Bus SB 37 oder CE 31 bis "Henrichshütte", dann ca. 5 Minuten Fußweg;
von Hattingen-Mitte auch mit Bus 335 bis "Industriemuseum"
Öffnungszeiten
Di - So 10.00 - 18.00 Uhr,
Einlass bis 17.00 Uhr,
Fr 10.00 - 21.30 Uhr,
Einlass bis 20.30 Uhr
Führungen
Alle Angaben zum umfangreichen Führungs- programm finden Sie hier.
Aktuelle Veranstaltungen finden Sie in route aktuell.
Hinweise für Besucher mit Behinderung finden Sie hier:
Informationen über die Mietung von Räumlichkeiten finden Sie auf dieser Übersicht.
Restaurant "Henrichs"
Fon 0 23 24 | 68 59 63
www.henrichs-restaurant.de
Im Sommer ist der Biergarten Gleis 1 geöffnet
FEUER.WEHRK
Das Feuerwehrmuseum
c/o Feuerwache
Friedrichstr. 6 - 8
45525 Hattingen
www.FeuerImRevier.de
Hattingen is a town nestled in the hills of the Ruhr valley. Fields, meadows and pastures dominate the landscape. A couple of centuries back it was already home to small trades and crafts. Cloth-making has long flourished in Hattingen. Open-cast coal extraction has long existed on the slopes of the Ruhr. The presence of iron ore deposits in and around Hattingen had at that time generated a small iron industry. A few forges were engaged in iron processing. But it was the arrival of the Henrichshütte Steel Works in 1854 which radically changed the face of the region.
In the mid 19th century Duke Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode was looking for a location for his iron works. There were many incentives in favour of Hattingen: the coal and iron ore seams, the transport facilities along the Ruhr and the Sprockhövel stream which could be used to drive the machinery. Hence he decided to invest massively in the construction of the steel works, whose blast furnace no I was fired in 1855. But the features which had been previously been deemed positive soon turned out to be handicaps. The Ruhr was subject to sudden flooding and had an extremely irregular rate of flow which made it scarcely suitable for navigation. For this reason, as soon as the steelworks were linked to the Ruhr valley railway was completed in 1869, navigation on the Ruhr was abandoned. Moreover the presence of iron production in the region was grossly overestimated and by 1870 it could no longer meet the demand at the Henrichshütte works, which was forced to bring in iron ore from the Siegerland region, and later from Sweden and other continents.
The extension of the Henrichshütte works also threw up many problems. As early as the middle of the 19th century there were protests against the building of the works from the neighbouring farmers who feared their land would be subject to be serious environmental damage. The diversion and canalisation of part of the Sprockhövel stream were relatively mild irritations, but the enormous toxic emissions were obvious. Family laundry often had to be re-washed after it had been hung out on the line to dry. That said: the Henrichshütte works played a major role in reducing the high level of unemployment that prevailed in Hattingen after the decline of the textile industry which failed to make the leap from hand weaving to mechanical looms for lack of finance.
