Bölts meat factory

Water tower and cold store of the "Alte Fleiwa" in Oldenburg, today used as an EWE forum

The Bölts AG was a German company of the food industry , based in the city of Oldenburg . It was founded on April 10, 1923 in the legal form of a stock corporation and apparently only existed for about four years.

history

1923-1927

The founders of the company were named: the rentier Bruno Bölts in Westerscheps, the manufacturer Carl Bölts in Edewecht , the farmer Gustav Bölts in Westerscheps, the accounting director Heinrich Paradies and the building contractor Carl Husmann in Oldenburg. Account Director Paradies was possibly on behalf of the resigned Grand Duke of Oldenburg Friedrich August , who is named in recent sources as a co-founder and at that time officially acted as chairman of the supervisory board . The newly founded company goes back indirectly to the Ammerland meat product factory B. Bölts in Westerscheps and Edewecht, which the Bölts family commissioned in 1886 .

The share capital was at inception, that is in the phase of high inflation , 300 million marks and was after the currency stabilization at 1.5 million Reichsmark converted.

Immediately after its foundation, Bölts AG acquired a large piece of land on the Oldenburg – Leer railway line in Oldenburg and built an extensive factory there with its own water tower based on a design by Berlin-based architect Walter Frese , who is an experienced specialist in the construction of cattle and slaughterhouses was. The architecture of the brick-faced brickwork factory shows neoclassical and expressionist tendencies typical of the time .

The daily slaughtering capacity of Bölts Fleischwarenfabrik was around 1000 pigs and 200 cattle slaughter. The products, especially smoked and canned goods, were mainly delivered to the industrial centers on the Rhine and Ruhr. The local farmers were only able to supply 20% of the animals for slaughter. The company's energy requirements were enormous. Therefore, a separate hall for the steam and cooling machines and a separate water tower were built to provide the required water. The electricity required was generated with huge dynamos. The company was thus completely independent of external energy producers and water suppliers.

1927-2004

Because of the oversized production capacity in relation to the regional supply of slaughtered cattle and the possible sale of their products, Bölts AG soon ran into difficulties, so the meat product factory , which opened in autumn 1924, was taken over by the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine (GEG) as early as 1927 . Under the management of this company that is active throughout Germany, the Oldenburg factory has developed into the largest meat processing company in Germany. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists , the GEG was as Reich Federation of German Consumer Co GmbH into line .

In 1988 the production of the meat factory was relocated from the area close to the city center on Industriestrasse to new buildings in the Tweelbäke industrial estate.

Since 2004

On March 1, 2004, the Oldenburg meat factory, which was still producing at its new location, was taken over by the Danish Tulip Food Company , a subsidiary of Danish Crown .

Current use of the "Alte Fleiwa" site

In front right the Technical Town Hall; left in the background the water tower of the old Fleiwa

The old location, the so-called Quartier Alte Fleiwa , stood empty from 1988 to 2007. The “Quartier Alte Fleiwa” includes the entire factory area around Industriestrasse, Jägerstrasse, Familie-Mechau-Strasse, Fritz-Bock-Strasse, Escherweg, Strasse Am Schützenplatz and Strasse Alte Fleiwa. Between 2007 and 2010, the real estate became the focal point of a service and innovation center. More than 40 companies and institutions have now settled in the Alte Fleiwa quarter. Around 1,800 jobs have been created in the information technology, energy and administration sectors. The city administration is also present with the technical town hall, the health department, business development and other urban units.

Parts of the facility are used as an event center.

literature

• Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume 2, pp. 4342 f.

Web links

• Lore and Peter Bachmann: Bölts Fleischwarenfabrik. At www.alt-oldenburg.de , last accessed on February 26, 2017.
• Heinze GmbH: Reconstruction and renovation of the OLD FLEIWA Oldenburg. 26121 Oldenburg, Alte Fleiwa 1 , last accessed on May 24, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The purpose of the company does not expressly refer to the takeover of the old Ammerland meat product factory B. Bölts by the new Bölts AG , insofar as this is reproduced in the manual for German stock corporations . ( Based on the rudimentary information on the company's history on the Meica website, a connection with the Ammerland meat products factory Fritz Meinen ( Meica ) is unlikely.)
2. ↑ deutsches-architektur-forum.de
3. ↑ Bölts meat product factory . alt-oldenburg.de. P. 5
4. ↑ Bölts meat product factory . alt-oldenburg.de. P. 2
5. ↑ The ownership structure between 1933 and 2004 does not appear from the sources used so far.
6. ↑ tulip.de ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ City of Oldenburg: Alte Fleiwa
8. ↑ New signs lead to the “Quartier Alte Fleiwa” . oldenburger-onlinezeitung.de. 15th February 2018
9. ↑ Klaus Fricke: There will be a lot of talk in this water tower in the future . nwzonline.de. April 1, 2010
10. ↑ Bölts meat product factory. . alt-oldenburg.de. P. 2.

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '55.4 "  N , 8 ° 11' 54.8"  E