Cotton mill on the Stadtbach

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Site plan of the cotton spinning mill on the Stadtbach including the Stadtbach district (1874)

The cotton spinning mill on the Stadtbach in Augsburg , also known for short as the Stadtbach spinning mill , was the largest spinning mill in the German Zollverein . It was founded in the 19th century and taken over by the Dierig Group in the 20th century . The company no longer exists today.

In the spinning mill, raw cotton was spun into yarn on a large industrial scale . The use of the hydropower of the Augsburg Stadtbach in the hydropower plant on the Stadtbach made it possible to operate and served as a role model. In the same way, a few kilometers further along other canals in Augsburg, an entire district, the Augsburg textile district , developed into an economic boom.

location

The residential complex of the cotton mill on Stadtbach designed by Thomas Wechs (built in 1927)

The cotton mill was located in the Augsburg-Bleich and Pfärrle district between the two canals Stadtbach and Proviantbach . Neighboring them were the Augsburg machine works (now MAN Diesel & Turbo ) and the Haindl paper mill (now UPM-Kymmene ). The MAN bridge over the Lech , which today represents an important traffic connection between the north of Augsburg and Lechhausen (north bypass), did not exist at that time.

A separate workers' quarter , the Stadtbachquartier , was also built at the spinning mill . In 1903 it comprised 33 buildings with 164 apartments. For the company's 75th anniversary in 1928, the workers' estate grew again to include more residential buildings on the right side of the Lech in Lechhausen, designed by the architect Thomas Wechs . A new bridge now spanned the Lech at this point.

history

The cotton spinning mill on the Stadtbach was founded in 1851 as a stock corporation and commissioned in 1853. Around 1865 the company was the largest German spinning mill with more than 95,000 spindles and more than 1200 workers. It achieved a turnover of around five million guilders . In 1868 it was able to distribute a dividend of 25% to its shareholders . Theodor von Haßler was its general director from 1868 to 1889 . In 1903 the spinning mill had over 143,000 spindles and more than 900 employees.

After the First World War , the Silesian textile entrepreneur Christian Gottfried Dierig acquired a majority stake in the AG and opened further plants, the Wertach spinning mill ("Plant II" on the Holzbach next to the Plärrer site ) and the cotton spinning mill on the Senkelbach ("Plant III"). In 1928 the total company size was 2,300 employees. In 1937 the cotton spinning mill on Stadtbach was incorporated into the Dierig Group .

During the air raids on Augsburg in World War II , the main factory on the Stadtbach was almost completely destroyed by bombs. After the war it was rebuilt and the Dierig concern moved its headquarters from Silesia to Augsburg. In 1948, 170,000 spindles were already in use in the new buildings and the company was gradually expanded into a state-of-the-art rotor spinning mill . In the mid-1950s, Dierig employed a total of 3,200 people in his several Augsburg weaving and spinning mills, which were combined in one complex. However, since the 1960s, his factories shared the decline of the entire domestic textile industry. The production of the spinning mill at Stadtbach ended in 1997. Today the enlarged UPM-Kymmene paper mill is on the site. The residential district Stadtbachquartier was completely demolished and industrialized by Haindl. There is now a furniture store in the former Plant II at Plärrer.

literature

  • Augsburger Stadtlexikon (cotton spinning mill on the Stadtbach)
  • JP Himmer: Cotton spinning mill on Stadtbach in Augsburg: (1853–1903). Report on the establishment (1851) and 50 years of operation (1853–1903) , 1911

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburg latest news: Swabian courier. 1870.7 / 9 . Reichel, 1870, p. 2559 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ The cotton mill on the Stadtbach. Augsburger Allgemeine from March 11, 2010, accessed on April 9, 2016 .
  3. ↑ A previous bridge to today's MAN bridge, seen on this city map from 1932
  4. ↑ The cotton mill on the Stadtbach. Augsburger Allgemeine from March 11, 2010, accessed on April 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Augsburger Stadtlexikon : Article “C. Dierig "
  6. ↑ Martina Achzet: Restructuring of Crisis Companies: Procedure and personnel development in corporate restructuring under the bankruptcy code, settlement order and insolvency code . Herbert Utz Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8316-4467-4 , p. 59 f . ( books.google.de ).
  7. ↑ The cotton mill on the Stadtbach. Augsburger Allgemeine from March 11, 2010, accessed on April 9, 2016 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '2.3 "  N , 10 ° 53' 57.1"  E