Flower Hanisch
| JC Hanisch Halle GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| Seat | Halle (Saale) , Leipzig , Frankfurt am Main , Germany |
| Number of employees | about 150 (1936) |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.blumen-hanisch.de |
Flower Hanisch (officially: JC Hanisch Halle GmbH ) is a long-established family business in the 6th generation, the flower - retail with offices in the main stations of Frankfurt , Leipzig and Halle (Saale) operates.
history
In 1793 the Hanisch family founded a nursery in Wittenberg , although it did not survive the destruction of the Wars of Liberation . In 1836 Johann Christian Hanisch (1793–1857) then founded an “art and commercial gardening” on Dresdner Strasse in Leipzig . He had completed his apprenticeship in the gardening department of the royal Pretzsch Castle and then worked as a gardener and later as head gardener in the service of the city of Leipzig. After his death in 1857, his son Carl Julius Harnisch (1819–1893) took over his father's gardening business. He had completed his apprenticeship in the nursery of Dresden Castle . In 1882 King Albert of Saxony appointed him his purveyor to the court . In 1885 he opened a sales outlet on Grimmaische Strasse , which was to exist for 58 years before it was destroyed in an air raid in World War II. Its director was Elisabeth Erdmann (1862–1936).
In the third generation, Carl Wilhelm Hanisch (1854–1912) joined the family business in 1876 as a partner. Before that he had trained in nurseries in Belgium , France and Great Britain . He set up a modern nursery on Zweinaundorfer Straße. The greenhouses were tempered with hot water heating, which was fed from its own thermal power station. A villa also belonged to the area . He exported his plants all over Europe, u. a. to St. Petersburg . His products have been awarded prizes at exhibitions, such as the “Grand State Prize” in Dresden . He was entrusted with the flower arrangements at the inauguration of the Reichsgericht , the New City Hall in Leipzig and the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig . In 1890 Carl Wilhelm Hanisch married the manager of his sales point in downtown Leipzig, Elisabeth Erdmann. She continued to run the business after her husband's death, especially during World War I when her two sons were drafted into the military. The floral decorations on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Leipzig main station by King Friedrich August III. von Sachsen came from her. In 1912 she opened a flower kiosk in the west hall and in 1916 in the east hall. In 1921 Elisabeth Hanisch handed the business over to her son Alfred.
Alfred Hanisch (1895–1976) won new groups of buyers after he had decided to offer cheaper flower arrangements. He was very successful with it and all branches, both in the city and in the main train station, had to be expanded. In 1936, about 150 people were employed at Blumen-Hanisch. In 1943 all sales outlets were destroyed by bombing raids. During the war, a provisional sales point was opened in the city center and after the war, in 1949, we moved into a renovated 2,000 m² sales area on Augustusplatz , opposite the university church . Due to the socialist economic policy , Alfred Hanisch had to gradually reduce his business in the 1950s. He avoided the West of Germany and on January 1, 1956 opened a flower shop in Frankfurt Central Station. Initially it was a sales point of only 3 m². In 1958, the company then moved into rooms on the north side of the main hall of Frankfurt Central Station, rooms in which the business is still operated today. Blumen-Hanisch is thus the service provider in Frankfurt Central Station (including the train providers, excluding train traffic) that has been at its current location the longest. In 2006 the sales rooms were completely renovated.
In 1993, after the fall of the Wall , Blumen-Hanisch returned to Leipzig Central Station. The shop that was renovated there at the time had to give way to the renovation of the station. New sales outlets were then created in both the east and west halls of the station. In 2006 another branch was opened in the main train station in Halle (Saale) .
The branch in the west hall has existed in Leipzig's main train station since 2019.
literature
- 175 years of Blumen-Hanisch . Leipzig - Frankfurt Main. Sulzbach (Taunus) 2011.