50 Pfennigs - Dahlhausen Hardt Pocorny and Co G.M.B.H.

Menzel: BBB

The village became famous for the Hardt & Pocorny textile factory , which is one of the three large factories on the Wupper, which are lined up like a string of pearls. Between 1815 and 1830 the industrialist Adolf Bauendahl from Radevormwald bought the area in the Vogelsmühle to run a cloth factory there. In 1855, however, the operation was shut down again and eleven years later the Johann Wülfing & Sohn company acquired the site to convert the factory into a carded yarn spinning mill. On January 1, 1884, the name was changed to Hardt, Pocorny & Co. In the heyday, the textile factory employed over 1,000 people. In 1974 the plant had to be closed for good, and since then large parts of the large area on the banks of the Wupper have been vacant.