Linz Textile

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Linz Textil Holding AG
legal form Corporation
ISIN AT0000723606
founding 1838
Seat Linz , AustriaAustriaAustria 
management
  • Friedrich Schopf (board member)
  • Eveline Jungwirth (board member)
  • Hermann Wiesinger (board member)
Number of employees 563
sales EUR 92.6 million
Branch Textile industry
Website www.linz-textil.com
Status: 2019

The Linz Textil Holding AG is an internationally active Austrian group based in Linz . The company was founded in 1838 as the Kleinmünchner cotton spinning mill and is today the oldest still existing industrial enterprise in Linz. Linz Textil has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since 1872 .

history

Johann Evangelist Grillmayr (1809–1881), who came from a rural background and was born in Grünburg , pioneered the textile industry in Upper Austria . As a young employee of the Hörzinger family, he traveled to England to buy yarn, where he meticulously memorized the machinery in the factories. Returning to Linz, he married the newly widowed Katharina Hörzinger on January 10, 1837 and, thanks to her capital, joined his friend Anton Wöss in Kleinmünchen in 1838 in the newly founded "cotton spinning factory" of his friend Anton Wöss . In 1840 more than 70 people were already working on the ten large spinning machines that Grillmayr had designed and built himself based on English models. Wöss withdrew from the company as early as October 1841 because the project he was pushing forward was becoming too risky for him. Grillmayr thus became the sole shareholder. In 1847 over 200 people were working on 199 spinning machines. At that time, two thirds of the spindles installed in Upper Austria were located in the three factories in the south of Linz (Grillmayr, Dierzer and Rädler ).

In 1872 the company was converted into the stock corporation of Kleinmünchner Cotton Spinning Mills and Mechanical Weaving Mills, which survived the founding crash of 1873 only with the energetic efforts of Johann Grillmayr. After Grillmayr's departure, General Director Carl Reichel (1894–1910) and Technical Director Ludwig von Gallois (1890–1928) shaped the company. Social achievements such as the “Aschensiedlung” company housing project fell into their time.

The company mastered the First World War and the collapse of the Danube Monarchy with strategic investments: in 1917 the Dierzer cotton spinning mill in Kleinmünchen and the Hermann weaving mill in Reutte were taken over. Until 1938, the company also operated a plant in the former suburb of Zizlau (St. Peter) , where voestalpine is located today . In 1946/49, today's company headquarters building on Wiener Strasse in Linz was rebuilt by architect Armin Sturmberger .

In 1978 the company was named Linz Textil Aktiengesellschaft . In the following years numerous companies were acquired and rebuilt:

  • 1982 Felixdorf spinning mill (closed in 2005), previously owned by Creditanstalt
  • 1984 Telfs weaving mill (closed in 2002)
  • 1985 Matrei am Brenner spinning mill (closed in 2007)
  • 1987 Reutte weaving mill (closed in 2008)
  • 1992 Klarenbrunn spinning mill (shut down in 2015) in Bludenz , acquired by Getzner Textil
  • 1994 Landeck spinning mill
  • 2002 Viscose spinning mill in Klanjec (Croatia)
  • 2004 Vossen company

In 2009, the Nanjing viscose spinning mill in China was built in the immediate vicinity of a Lenzing AG plant. The Swiss Dionys Lehner managed the company for 40 years until 2016.

Companies

Today the company includes the Vossen company with plants in Jennersdorf and Szentgotthárd (Hungary), the Landeck spinning mill and the viscose spinning mills in Klanjec and Nanjing.

In addition to the main building on Wiener Straße, historical buildings related to Linz Textil have been preserved in Linz, such as the Grillmayr Schlößl and the Aschenhäuser, a workers' housing estate in Kleinmünchen.

See also

literature

  • Roman Sandgruber , Dionys Lehner, Alexander Hofstadler: 175 years of Linz Textil. 1838-2013. Published by Linz Textil Holding AG, Lentia-Verlag, Linz 2013, pp. 1–180 (map of the five spinning mills on the Traun in 1924 on pp. 118–119; organizational chart of Linz Textil Holding on p. 163; online on issuu.com).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Annual Report 2019. In: linz-textil.com. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f story. Retrieved May 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b 175 years of Linz Textil , p. 31.
  4. ↑ 175 years of Linz Textil , pp. 94–95 and 100–101.
  5. ↑ Linz Textil closes the spinning mill in Matrei. In: derstandard.at. January 11, 2007, accessed May 20, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The future of the Klarenbrunn spinning mill is still open. In: orf.at. August 16, 2015, accessed May 20, 2020 .