The Nickelhütte Aue is a modern manufacturing site in East Germany for pure non-ferrous metals like

nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow to ...

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

cobalt Cobalt is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, pr ...

molybdenum Molybdenum is a chemical element with the symbol Mo and atomic number 42 which is located in period 5 and group 6. The name is from Neo-Latin ''molybdaenum'', which is based on Ancient Greek ', meaning lead, since its ores were confused with lea ...

vanadium Vanadium is a chemical element with the symbol V and atomic number 23. It is a hard, silvery-grey, malleable transition metal. The elemental metal is rarely found in nature, but once isolated artificially, the formation of an oxide layer ( pas ...

and

tungsten Tungsten, or wolfram, is a chemical element with the symbol W and atomic number 74. Tungsten is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively as compounds with other elements. It was identified as a new element in 1781 and first isolat ...

. It is descended from the historic Niederpfannenstiel Blue Colour Works (german: Blaufarbenwerk Niederpfannenstiel), a

paintworks Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture. Paint can be made in many ...

that was founded in 1635 by Veit Hans Schnorr in Pfannenstiel near

Aue Aue may refer to: * Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in German toponymy meaning "wetland; river island; river" Places * Aue, Saxony, a mining town in Saxony, Germany * Aue (Samtgemeinde), a collective municipality in Uelzen District, Lower Sax ...

Sources

* ''Aue, Mosaiksteine der Geschichte'', Hrsg. Stadtverwaltung Aue, Druckerei und Verlag Mike Rockstroh, Aue 1997; pages 49–66 ''Die Blaufarbenwerke sind Fabriken, die sonst nirgends in Sachsen als im Erzgebirge anzutreffen, und sind daher unserer Aufmerksamkeit würdig.'' * Manfred Blechschmidt, Klaus Walther: ''Vom Blaufarbenwerk Niederpfannenstiel zum volkseigenen Betrieb Nickelhütte Aue – Episoden und Bilder aus 350 Jahren Geschichte''. Lößnitz, Rockstroh, 1985 * Siegfried Sieber: ''Geschichte des Blaufarbenwerkes Niederpfannenstiel in Aue im Erzgebirge anläßlich seiner Dreihundertjahrfeier''. Schwarzenberg, Glückauf-Verl., 1935 * Mike Haustein: ''Das Erbe des Blaufarbenwerks 1635–2010.'' Nickelhütte Aue, 2010 * Ernst Ludwig Schubarth: ''Elemente der technischen Chemie, zum Gebrauch beim Unterricht im Königl. Gewerbinstitut und den Provinzial-Gewerbschulen''; 2. Ausgabe 1835, A. Rücker, Hier: 14. Kapitel: S.151 ff - Smalte, Wismuth, Kobalt ().

External links

Homepage for Nickelhütte Aue

''Das Magazin'', Chemnitz mit einem Beitrag ''Historie der Nickelhütte Aue''; 2006
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