Adolf Lauster & Co.
| Adolf Lauster & Co. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Civil Law Society (GbR) |
| founding | 1902 |
| resolution | 1984 |
| Seat | Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt , later Münster (Stuttgart) , Germany |
| Number of employees | 536 (in 1939) |
Adolf Lauster & Co. was a quarry in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt . The company existed from 1902 to 1984.
history
In 1902 the Blattner quarry in Cannstatt was purchased. Lauster worked at short notice with the neighboring Haas quarry. From 1906 onwards, the invention of hydraulic raw block extraction made it possible to largely dispense with blasting during stone extraction.
The brothers Fritz Lauster (foreman) and Adolf Lauster (factory owner) had eight employees in 1919 and continued to expand their business. Fritz Lausters Villa Lauster was built in 1920/21 . Around this time the company was converted to an industrial company; they now switched to mechanical stone extraction and processing. Members of the Lauster family designed some of their machines themselves; In 1922, for example, stone planing machines were developed. A year later, a site in Münster was purchased and in the following years, in addition to a residential building, halls and administration buildings were built for the company. The buildings in Neckartalstrasse and Enzstrasse as well as on various other parcels are partly classified as Expressionism and partly as International Style and are now under monument protection. The travertine mined on site was used for the structures . In the 1920s, branches were also set up near Würzburg , Kirchheim / Moos and Tengen . In 1929 Adolf Lauster & Co. had 180 employees. At the beginning of the 1930s, Lauster also operated internationally, for example in the USA , Argentina , China , Japan and South Africa . Lauster reached its highest level of 563 employees in 1939. During the Nazi era , the company received numerous public contracts. The 14 travertine columns that were ordered for a Mussolini monument in 1936 , but were no longer delivered, are evidence of this . They are still on Neckartalstrasse after they were bought back by Lauster after the war.
After the Second World War , Lauster took over other quarries, for example in Ittenhausen, Merklingen and Hörden. The quarry near Schopfloch , which was abandoned in 1974, is now a protected natural monument.
In the early 1940s - still during the Second World War - the company began to develop special trucks, cranes and special machines for work in the quarry itself. The independent company Lauster GmbH emerged from this in 1965 .
In 1984 the insolvent plant was sold; Adolf Lauster's grandson Albrecht, however, runs a successor company in Stuttgart. The land and buildings owned by Adolf Lauster & Co. now belong to other companies and cannot be viewed.
Fossil finds
Fossils were repeatedly found in the quarries of Adolf Lauster & Co. Numerous finds from the travertine quarry in Stuttgart are now in the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, such as two fossilized tanks of pond turtles found in 1936 . Numerous finds of mammalian bones and teeth have also been documented for Lauster's quarries.
See also
literature
- Karl Ritter von Klimesch (ed.): Heads of politics, economy, art and science . Augsburg: Naumann, 1953. Volume 2, p. 653 (short biography of Fritz Lauster)
- Karsten Preßler: Ordered but not picked up: The pillars of the Lauster quarry in Stuttgart-Münster. In: Preservation of Monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume 39, 2010, pages 119–120.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unknown title. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 17, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ The forgotten Nazi memorial - Stuttgart - Cannstatter Zeitung . ( cannstatter-zeitung.de [accessed on March 31, 2017]).
- ↑ Travertine Park - window into prehistoric times. Thomas Jakob, accessed on March 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Electrical engineer Erhard Lauster. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .