Henrichshütte Hattingen and LWL Industrial Museum

"The Henrichshütte is a former steelworks in the northwest of Hattinger old town and named after Count Henrich to Stolberg-Wernigerode, who founded the iron ore steel plant from the raw material iron ore as early as 1854. Recently, it belonged to the Thyssen group The phase of the decommissioning, this year, the blast furnace blown out .. Facilities such as the steelworks and the smithy closed until 2004, exactly 150 years after the founding of the hut The Landschaftsverband Westfalen Lippe (LWL) has the area of ​​the steelworks including the inventory in 1989 Before the demolition in 2005, some objects of the adjacent steelworks were also "rescued", including converters, castings or chillers.Boiler 2 was dismantled and rebuilt in China.The blast furnace 3 is the oldest still existing blast furnace in the whole Ruhr area While the actual metallurgical plant was expanded into a museum, it was built on the other On the street side on the site of the steel mill the so-called HenrichsPark, a construction area with commercial, service and leisure settlements. " Source: ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de/henrichshuette.html

The Henrichshütte is a former smelting works in the northwest of the old town of Hattingen and is named after Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, who founded the works for the production of iron and steel from the raw material iron ore in 1854. Most recently it belonged to the Thyssen Group. From 1987 the decommissioning phase began. This year the blast furnaces were blown out. Plants such as the steel mill and the forge closed by 2004, exactly 150 years after the smelter was founded.

In 1987 the blast furnaces were blown out
And now you can visit the museum about the history of the Heinrichshütte