Luminaires from Neheim and Hüsten light up the world

Artificial light lights up the night, decorates rooms, creates atmosphere, rules our perception, broadcasts news, is being taken for granted and is indispensable. But light needs luminaires. Because without a luminaire the lamp glares, wastes its light. The producing of luminaires has been the trade of many people in Neheim and Hüsten for over 150 years.

The gradual economic ascent of the little town of farmers started with oil lamps in the 19^th century. Names characterize the memories of this period: Bröckelmann and Cosack as businessmen and pioneers of the industrialization. Frielinghaus and Tappe as workmen, and last but not least, the genius inventor and world traveller Hugo Bremer. Admittedly, without the uncountable workers doing metal spinning, crimping or plumbing, these big names of the industry pioneers would be long forgotten.

But not only names give proof of great business actions and workers diligence. The industrializing left its traces in villas and parks, in historical factory architecture and workers housing estates.

Light is anything but history in Neheim and Hüsten. Many small and big companies here produce lightings of highest technical quality for workroom and street, create a cosy living room atmosphere, plan lights for all over the world, and deliver parts from the insignificant plastic socket up to a complex reflector element.

Fit for the future? Of course. Whether light by fibreglass cables or by the most modern diode technic - companies from Neheim and Hüsten light up the world.

Around 1930, the break-through to the modern trend in design and technic, starts. The "Bauhaus" designer, Christian Dell, creates the "Kaiser-idell", a successful synthesis of aesthetic and technic perfection, for a company in Neheim. It becomes famous as the "Commissioner's Lamp" of many TV investigators.