The was created 1854 in Hattingen and received on suggestion of the first director of hut Carl Roth their name after count Henrich to Stolberg Wernigerode (1772-1854). It was and beginning one of the most steeped in tradition iron and steel plants of the Ruhr district in the year 1987 was shut down (1987 blast furnace 3 and rolling mill, 1993 steel plant, 2003 Schmiede).

The was the chief work giver in Hattingen. Up to 10.000 workers produced here iron and steel. The enterprise contributed with the establishment of workers' housing estates (garden city Msendrei and other one) also importantly to the development of the today's Hattinger of quarter Welper.

The quiet putting

Against the embittered resistance 1987 in the course of the gradual fall of the charring and heavy industry in the Ruhr district the last blast furnace of the were shut down. The last tap took place on 18 December 1987.

Also the new building 1979/1980 today now completely oversized "„food-hereditarymove "“over the Ruhr for the improvement of the traffic route could not this not prevent.

For Hattingen it was a large task to achieve this structural change. One must lead oneself before eyes that by the decrease of the purchasing power and drifts from the city and loss also the entire retail trade was drawn temporarily into the crisis.

Over re-education programs etc. outside there were also social programs: Senior courses of studies in Dortmund and Bochum, a working group for the renovation of a sailing boat, a magazine (W.I.R. "„we in the retirement "“), a Trachtengruppe. One feared (by right) that it to tensions in the marriages comes (with substantial problems up to divorces and homelessness), if in particular older employees, which could not find a new work, spend suddenly all day long after decades of regular gainful employment at home without occupation.

Today that is 70,000 m large areas of the (refuse dump-reorganized) beside some new tradesmen's settlements and new park surfaces of one of the eight locations of the industrial museum and part of the route of the industrial culture.

On the area the sculptor Zbigniew Fraczkiewicz 1996 issued his plastics humans from iron. Three of the iron men stand now before the Stadtmauer Hattingens.

60 m high buildings of the Blasstahlwerkes, a landmark of the city Hattingen, on 23 January 2005 around 10:06 clock before the eyes was blown up by 2.500 spectators, under it many former coworkers, with 40 kg explosive. From cost reasons it had not been possible to receive the steel plant as industrial monument.

The Gasometer was already blown up 1994.

See also: List of the trip goals and objects of interest in the Ruhr district

Literature

• Otto king, Robert summerhouse; The end of the steel time: The deactivation of the Hattingen; Publishing house plain language; ISBN 388474609X

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