Bellino-Fenderich

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Tchernomore of the Imperial Russian Navy built at Bellino-Fenderich , 1911

Bellino-Fenderich was a machine factory in Odessa .

history

At the end of the 1850s, Sebastian Fenderich opened a small repair shop for agricultural machines. It developed into a mechanical plant and an iron foundry. The company repaired port and ship equipment and after a short time received a large part of the orders for the repair of steam ships, the manufacture of steam boilers, machines and mechanical parts.

On February 2, 1873, Fenderich founded the Bellino u. Company together with Adolf Bellino and Ludwig Commerell from Württemberg . Fenderich in Odessa for building ships up to 25 meters in length. It was located near the large German machine factory Höhn outside the customs borders of Odessa in the workers' suburb of Peresyp , where the majority of the population spoke Russian and only a fifth spoke Yiddish.

In addition to steam ships and steam boilers, the shipyard specialized in the manufacture of torpedo tubes and benefited from urgent government orders during the expansion of the Black Sea fleet.

Compared with other metalworking companies in Odessa, the Bellino-Fenderich plant had the most employees and the highest turnover and profit on an annual average. At the end of the 19th century, the factory was officially named the best mechanical factory in southern Russia. By the end of the 1880s, the plant had repaired more than 250 ships and built 45 steamers and a considerable number of steam boilers, machines and mechanical parts. Shipbuilding halls were built. In the autumn of 1916 the plant employed around 1,000 people.

further reading

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The settlement of the Black Sea area and the city of Odessa.
  2. ^ Erik Amburger database: Adolf Bellino
  3. ^ Erik Amburger database: Ludwig Commerell
  4. ↑ Guido Hausmann: University and urban society in Odessa, 1865-1917: social and national self-organization on the periphery of the tsarist empire . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-515-07068-3 , p. 52.
  5. ↑ Bessarabia.
  6. ^ Daily Telegraph, Issue 6419, April 1, 1892, p. 2
  7. ^ The West Australian (Perth, WA). Thursday January 16, 1890.