ブックタイトル「近代の文化遺産の保存理念と修復理念」英語版

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「近代の文化遺産の保存理念と修復理念」英語版

16plants have been preserved as monumentsyet, because it will become a problem of sizefor preservation. We only have one plant inGermany left which is relatively small and canshow the whole production line from raw ironto a rolling mill, which produced especially railsfor railways. This plant is in Bavaria, and it’scalled Maxhutte; Max is the name of a formeremperor. In a panoramic picture you can see thewhole production chain from blast furnace, steelplant and rolling mill (Photo 10). This plant wasdocumented by us and is a designated landmarkor cultural property. But it did not develop anyfurther, it has been standing like this for 12 yearsand the future is unsure.Photo 11　Linz-Donawitz processPhoto 9　 The relics of a blast furnacein Sagunto in SpainPhoto 10　Maxhutte plantFor me, this could have been the last chanceto have a cultural property demonstrating thewhole process of iron and steel production andrefining of the products, in an authentic place,authentic setting with authentic machinery andinstallations in a comparably small scale. Theconverters are relatively small, only 20 tons steelcontents. The next generation of plants for steelproduction has converters of 200 tons, ten timesthe size and weight, and nearly impossible topreserve.The production of steel became very advancedafter Second World War with a specialinvention made in Austria, which was thebottom-blowing converter, the so called Linz-Donawitz process (Photo 11).　The first converter of this type used forcommercial production in Austria is preserved,but standing forlornly on the parking lot ofthe company which is still running a steel mill,totally brought out of its original context. Thesecond example of a similar type of converteris now in the Hattingen museum, where wealready saw the blast furnace.　If you look into a contemporary steel worksstill working, you might imagine that there arenot so many chances to preserve such a superlarge site today.