Steelworks.Germany.KruppRheinhausen

<h2>3.4.5.    Krupp Steel Mill at Rheinhausen</h2> The following images show the slow death of the former Krupp steelworks at Rheinhausen. My first image dates from 1979 and still shows three of the old blast furnaces. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill06"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill06_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill06_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1979-06-01</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> About ten years later only two of the old furnaces remain in a pitiful state. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill03"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill03_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill03_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td>blast furnace in operation</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1990-08-12</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill04"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill04_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill04_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td>blast furnace in operation</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1990-08-12</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill05"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill05_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill05_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td>abandoned blast furnaces</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1990-08-12</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> One year before closure: two blast furnaces are still active. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill02"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill02_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill02_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1992-04-04</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> A misleading image: the furnace, seemingly still intact, is already dead, it's days are counted. <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="1%"><a name="RHSteelMill01"></a><a href="Steelworks.Germany.RHSteelMill01_body.html" target="body"><img alt="enlarge image" hspace="10" vspace="10" border="2" src="RHSteelMill01_.jpg"></a></td><td valign="top" width="100%" height="100%"> <table cellspacing="5" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td><font size="5"><b>Krupp Steel Mill</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Germany</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rheinhausen </td> </tr> <tr> <td>1997-07-01</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <br> Today only the remains of the coke plant (see 'Mines ond Cokeplants' section) reminds of the Krupp Rheinhausen steelworks.