Franz Dinnendahl

Franz Dinnendahl ( born August 20, 1775 in Horst, † August 15 1826 in Rellinghausen, brother of Johann Dinnendahl ) built in 1803 in Essen, the first steam engine in the Ruhr.

Life

Dinnendahl came as the son of a miller to the world. As a teenager he worked as a herdsman, to make then two years as a carbon slide his money. On the advice of his uncle, he learned the carpenter trade. However, his enthusiasm for technology was born. When he was awarded the contract to build a power house of wood, he was more interested in the machine as for the home.

The first steam engine - introduced in England - was taken on the bill in full moon Langendreer in operation. This was at the time made ​​on his first premises in the Trentelgasse in the center of Essen.

The steam engine was important for the coal industry in the Ruhr area. She found, for example in the use of pumps that promoted the penetrating into the lower flanges of water daily. Dinnendahl founded his own company. From 1801 to 1803 designed and built Franz Dinnendahl the first steam engine. He moved his workshop in 1807 by Altendorf / Ruhr in the Trentelgasse. However, it was destroyed by fire in 1821. Dinnendahl built a new machine factory in Bergerhausen (later Westfalia Dinnendahl Gröppel AG). However, the technician did not have the business skills, so that he died impoverished in 1826.

Tributes and remembrance

Dinnendahl was buried at the cemetery in Rellinghausen. In 1936 he received an honorary grave of the city of Essen in the West Cemetery.

On his former premises at the Trentelgasse 4 in Essen, the main tax office in 1907 /08 built on the a plaque to him. In 2006 the building was purchased by a private investor, extensively renovated and provided with the name "Villa Dinnendahl ". Today it is a private academy for health care. The Dinnendahlstraße in Bergerhausen and Huttrop was named in 1920 by Franz Dinnendahl. In addition, the Franz- Dinnendahl secondary school in Kray and the Franz- Dinnendahl -Realschule bear in Bochum- Langendreer his name.

Plaque at the hydroelectric plant Horster Mühle

Honorary grave in the cemetery Southwest Food