Bavarian lignite industry
| Bavarian Lignite Industry (BBI)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | February 5, 1906 |
| resolution | September 30, 1982 |
| Reason for dissolution | depleted deposits |
| Seat | Schwandorf , Bavaria |
| management | Hans Heitzer (Chairman of the Supervisory Board from 1976) |
| Number of employees | 1600 (1974) |
| Branch | Mining industry |
The Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie AG ( BBI AG ) was a mining company whose legacy contributed significantly to the development of the Upper Palatinate Lake District . With a maximum annual output of eight million tons of brown coal (1974) it was the most important employer in the Northern Upper Palatinate and owner of the largest open- cast mining area in Bavaria .
history
The predecessor of the company was the Bavarian lignite and briquette industry union Klardorf , founded in 1904 , which was merged in 1906 in the Bayerische Braunkohle Industrie AG founded in Münster . The company moved its headquarters to Schwandorf in March 1908 in order to develop the brown coal fields discovered south of Wackersdorf .
With the expansion of the Schwandorf coal-fired power station from 1956 to 1972 (a total of almost 700,000 kW total output), after the discontinuation of briquette production in 1964, new sales opportunities for lignite arose for BBI. Between 20,000 and 25,000 tons of coal were burned daily in the power plant (figures from 1981), which was transported by BBI's own works railway from Wackersdorf to Schwandorf-Dachelhofen, seven kilometers away.
On September 21, 1982, the mining in the Upper Palatinate Revier was stopped after the deposits were largely exhausted, which also led to the dissolution of the company.
The abandoned pits were integrated into the natural landscape of the Upper Palatinate through numerous recultivation measures.
Several BBI civil servant houses in Wackersdorf are under monument protection.
The former administration building of the BBI in Wackersdorf was converted into an office building, in the laboratory building not far from it is today the local history and industry museum .
On June 17, 2015, the Wackersdorfer municipal council decided against the votes of the mayor and two other council members to demolish the former community center of the BBI and replace it with a new event hall.
Web links
- Newspaper article about the Bavarian lignite industry in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Coal mining shaped a region - Onetz , accessed on 23 August 2019
- ^ Albert Gieseler - Bavarian Brown Coal Industry Corporation. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Bayerische Braunkohlen-Industrie AG (Ed.): 75 years of BBI . The new day, 1981.
- ↑ Jakob Scharf: Steinberg, history and stories. A chronicle . 1st edition. Gietl, Regenstauf 1997, p. 133 .
- ↑ List of monuments for Wackersdorf of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ↑ Kathrin Bayer: A piece of history filled with new life on www. Mittelbayerische.de, May 5, 2009
- ↑ Johann Ippisch: A piece of BBI history must give way to www. Mittelbayerische.de, June 18, 2015