Phoenix West

This weekend the steel frame was temporarily illuminated externally, which is a worthwhile goal for hobby photographers ... The tower alone is often illuminated in red, but that's really nice

• History: The Hoerder Mines and Huts Association, founded in 1852, initially comprises the Hermannshütte, founded in 1839 by the Iserlohn-based manufacturer Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock, in the eastern part of the Hörde district of Dortmund (Phoenix East plant). In 1926, the Hörder mine and metallurgical association, which had operated the two locations Phoenix West and East until then, together with other mining companies in the United Steel Works AGaufauf, which existed until the end of the Second World War. During the national socialism existed from September 1944 to March 1945 an external camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp on the factory premises of the Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenverein AG. Between 400 and 650 girls and young women, mostly Russians and Poles, were interned in the building on Huckarder Straße 111, who were used for forced labor at the Huckarder Straße / Rheinische Straße projectile. [1] After the Second World War, the Hörder Association went in 1951 in the course of the reorganization of the German iron and steel industry in the Dortmund-Hörder Hüttenunion AG, which was taken over in 1966 by Hoesch AG. This was followed by a hostile takeover by Krupp AG in 1992, with which the decline of the Stahlära in Dortmund was initiated. The merger of Krupp and Thyssen AG in 1999 sealed the end by the decision for the location close to the Rhine in Duisburg and in Dortmund. The number of blast furnaces operated was still five after the Second World War. As part of the general decline of the steel industry at the Rhine remote locations of the Ruhr area, the blast furnace operation in the 1980s reduced to three, in the 1990s - before the final abandonment of the Phoenix West site (1998) - only one blast furnace. Before decommissioning, Phoenix West was considered the fastest ironworks in Europe, counting from tapping to tapping. Source: Wikipedia