 Wendener Hütte was founded in 1728 close to the village of the same name near Wenden at a stream of the name Bigge.The founders where Peter and Johann Ermert from Betzdorf to whom the Elector Clement August, Archbishop of Cologne, had given a concession.Some years later Wendener Hütte came into possession of the Remy family which counts among the pioneers of the German iron industry.