Industriemuseum Howaldtsche Metallgießerei

Om museet

The Howaldtswerke trace their origins to an engineering works founded in 1838 by August Ferdinand Howaldt and Johann Schweffel as Kiel's first industrial enterprise. After Georg Howaldt founded a shipyard in Dietrichsdorf in 1876, the Howaldt brothers also moved the engineering works to the east bank of the Kiel Fjord around 1880. In 1889 the two businesses merged to form the Howaldtswerke.

The workshops were designed by Heinrich Moldenschardt, a leading architect of historicism in Schleswig-Holstein. Completed in 1884, the metal foundry with its patterned brick walls and round-arched windows had electric lighting from the very start. Until 1980, mainly bronze, lead, and brass parts for the shipyard's vessels were cast here. Work at the melting furnaces around the central chimney was hard and dangerous.

After World War II the shipyard gradually moved to Gaarden, and the Dietrichsdorf site was abandoned in 1983. Of Moldenschardt's buildings, only the metal foundry survived. It has been a listed monument since 1992 and was restored from 2003 to 2006, partly with funds from the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz (German Foundation for Monument Protection). A replica made of Corten steel replaces the lost chimney.

The industrial museum opened on International Museum Day 2007 and was initially run by a volunteer association. Since 2020 it has been part of the Kieler Stadt- und Schifffahrtsmuseum. The workshop hall with its furnaces, workbenches, and tools is largely in its original state. Guided tours and casting demonstrations convey Kiel's industrial, shipbuilding, and labor history.

Højdepunkter

• Oldest surviving building of Kiel's shipbuilding history (1884, architect Heinrich Moldenschardt)
• Largely original workshop hall with melting furnaces, workbenches, and tools
• Casting demonstrations and hands-on pewter casting workshops
• Small steam engine that is set in motion during guided tours
• Molding box, molding sand, and tools you can touch

Permanente udstillinger

• Werkhalle der Howaldtschen Metallgießerei – The foundry hall, preserved in its original state with melting furnaces, workbenches, and tools, presents some 100 years of shipyard and labor history on Kiel's east bank.

Grundlagt

2007

Ejer

Landeshauptstadt Kiel (Kieler Stadt- und Schifffahrtsmuseum)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

Free admission. Public casting workshops are free; if you want to take home the pewter coin you cast, there is a €7 materials fee.

Tilgængelighed

• Delvis kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: findes ikke
• Handicaptoilet: findes ikke
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Accessible entrance. Because the building stands on a slope, both floors can be reached at ground level from outside; wheelchair users change floors via the sidewalk around the building (staff will open the door to the workshop hall, tel. 0431 901-3466). Inside, there is only a narrow staircase with a handrail on one side. No wheelchair-accessible restroom. Two accessible parking spaces in the public parking lot behind the building.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops

Children are welcome but must be supervised in the workshop hall (sharp edges, heavy objects). Offerings such as the children's tour with casting and the casting workshop from age 8; no dedicated offerings for younger children; holiday pass during the summer and fall school breaks. Picture books and coloring supplies on the first floor.

Transport & parkering

Bicycle parking only at the nearby Dietrichsdorf landing.

Service & spisesteder

• Café: findes ikke
• Restaurant: findes ikke

No café; places to eat are 5–10 minutes on foot.

Arrangementer & udlejning

Så vidt vi ved, udlejer museet ikke lokaler til eksterne arrangementer.

Not available for private parties, closed events, photo shoots, or filming.

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