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This study is about the history of Wuerttemberg’s industry in the period of Germany’s industrialization. The study deals with the Württemberg iron industry in the 19th century both, in terms of corporate history and in terms of the aspects of technical progress and innovation of the German coal and steel industry and, furthermore, according to the aspects of the development of regional and structural change. Downloadabl timeseries to this study are available under HISTAT, Topic: Production: mining, manufacturing, industry (=Produktion: Bergbau, verarbeitendes Gewerbe, Industrie) ): The Datatables in the search- and downloadsystem HISTAT are in three parts: A) Basic information on the iron industry (iron ore mining, companies, machines, employees, wages, social security benefits, administrative expenses) B) Growth of the Wuerttemberg ironindustry in the 19th century (30 Datatables on population development, wrought iron production, blast furnance production, turn over structure and turn over level, development of capital, fixed investments, price development) C) Further Data Table Annex