Wendener Hutte

Wendener Hutte is an antique ironworks and hammer mill. As that it's far a cultural monument to the beginnings of industrialization. It is positioned close to Wenden and open to visitors. The beginning of a small scale iron processing enterprise within the district of Olpe, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany changed into favoured through deposits of iron ore and heavy spar as well as an abundance of water and woods. Wendener Hütte was based in 1728 near the village of the same name close to Wenden at a circulation of the name Bigge. The founders in which Peter and Johann Ermert from Betzdorf to whom the Elector Clement August, Archbishop of Cologne, had given a concession.

Some years later Wendener Hütte got here into ownership of the Remy family which counts most of the pioneers of the German iron enterprise. In 1774 the first hammer able to refining iron into steel became brought to Wendener Hütte. The metallic it produced become of a first-rate that allowed it to be offered on the Rotterdam steel market. The exchange from charcoal powered furnaces to coal powered ones within the Ruhr Area, as well as a new rail line from Siegen to Hagen, started the death of iron processing inside the location. In 1866 Wendener Hütte turned into close down.