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Historic Veckerhagen Ironworks

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Historic Veckerhagen Ironworks

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Location: Reinhardshagen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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1. Historic Veckerhagen Ironworks – Aasbrunnen Spring loop from Veckerhagen

13.2km

01:21

300m

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2. Weser Ferry Veckerhagen–Hemeln – Veckerhagen–Hemeln Ferry loop from Hemeln

25.5km

02:14

450m

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3. Veckerhagen–Hemeln Ferry – Weser Riverside Cycle Path loop from Gottsbüren

54.2km

03:28

680m

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MikelT.v

October 18, 2022

Today industrial monument. Once a landgrave's ironworks, in which Denis Papin (1647-1712) had the world's first steam boiler cast in 1699.

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radlerjuergen

October 8, 2022

In 1666 the ironworks in Knickhagen was closed and moved to Veckerhagen. The hut ensemble of machine works, foundry house, rose house and Veckerhäger mining office was built at the upper end of Kasseler Straße on the eastern slope of the Reinhardswald. The landgrave's Veckerhagen ironworks obtained iron ore via the Schwalm-Eder-Fulda-Weser waterway from Haddamar, among other places, and produced a wide range of high-quality products until 1903, which was announced in a "Castware Catalogue" published as early as 1834. In addition to twisted steel cables for the greed cable ferry that crosses the Weser in Veckerhagen, the main castings were relief panels for open fireplaces, artistically designed fences and parts for the widespread Veckerhäger stove, which even found customers in Scandinavia and the USA via Bremen. Denis Papin had the world's first steam cylinder cast here around 1706. In 1838, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen examined the chemical and physical properties of blast furnace gases and the blast furnace process for the first time.

After it was shut down, the plant stood empty until 1955 and was then used by Weser ceramics until 1991, which produced the widespread Veckerhäger pots, flower pots with lion paws. Parts of the original hut construction and almost all of the wrought iron enclosure from the beginning of the hut were removed during this time.

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Location: Reinhardshagen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

Historic Veckerhagen Ironworks

1. Historic Veckerhagen Ironworks – Aasbrunnen Spring loop from Veckerhagen

2. Weser Ferry Veckerhagen–Hemeln – Veckerhagen–Hemeln Ferry loop from Hemeln

3. Veckerhagen–Hemeln Ferry – Weser Riverside Cycle Path loop from Gottsbüren

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