Esslinger newspaper

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Esslinger newspaper
Eßlinger-Zeitung-Logo.svg
description German daily newspaper
publishing company Bechtle, graphic companies and publishing company

(Bechtle Verlag and Esslinger Zeitung) GmbH & Co. KG

First edition April 25, 1868
Frequency of publication Monday to Saturday
Sold edition 32,486 copies
( IVW 2/2020, Mon-Sat)
Editor-in-chief Gerd Schneider
editor Otto Wolfgang Bechtle †,
Christine Bechtle-Kobarg
Web link www.esslinger-zeitung.de
ZDB 125919-2

The Eßlinger Zeitung is a daily newspaper from the Bechtle Graphische Betriebe und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG in Esslingen that has been published in Esslingen since 1868 .

Since January 1, 1973, the city of Esslingen am Neckar has made public announcements by moving in.

The sold circulation is 32,486 copies, a decrease of 31 percent since 1998.

history

On April 25, 1868, the first edition of the Esslinger Zeitung appeared first as a trial edition, then officially three times a week from May 1, 1868, and on working days from July 1, 1868. On October 1, 1869, the Eßlinger Zeitung was taken over by the book printer owners Otto Bechtle and Matthias Linsenmann from the JF Schreiber publishing house. From September 1, 1872, Otto Bechtle became the sole owner of the newspaper and the M. Linsenmann'schen Buchdruckerei publishing house, in which the Esslinger Zeitung was published, and shortly thereafter renamed the Otto Bechtle printing company. In 1886 the newspaper moved to the Esslingen market square; at the same time a high-speed press with a gas engine was introduced. Further renewals of the printing machines followed in 1890 and 1900. This year, 12,000 newspapers could be printed per hour. Further modernizations of the facility from 1900 followed in 1906 and 1907.

In 1912, Bechtle took over the Plochinger Zeitung and the Neckar and Filder Zeitung, which appeared in Köngen. In 1926 the newspapers were converted to the Berlin format . Otto Bechtle died on September 3, 1926, his son Richard Bechtle took over the business, but in 1933 he had to surrender the majority of his shares in the publishing house and thus also in the Eßlinger Zeitung to the Nazi press. At the same time he was banned from practicing his profession and banned from managing the publishing house and the entire editorial team. The Eßlinger Zeitung could not appear again until February 1, 1949, but initially under the title Neckarpost, licensed by the US occupation forces; from July 1949 then again under the old name Eßlinger Zeitung. This time Otto Wolfgang Bechtle took over the management, as Richard Bechtle died on October 2nd, 1944.

In May 1951 a new rotary machine was introduced. Since the Rotenberg Verlag was acquired in 1960, the Cannstatter and Untertürkheimer newspapers have also been owned by Bechtle Verlag. In 1963 the company moved to its current publishing location on Zeppelinstrasse in Esslingen am Neckar. The offset process has been used since 1979 and the newspaper has been published in the Rheinische format since 1983 .

In 1995 the majority of the company was taken over by Otto Wolfgang Bechtle's family, further shares were held by the Stuttgarter Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft Eberle GmbH & Co., based in Stuttgart, as well as A. Gottliebs and F. Osswalds Buchdruckereien GmbH & Co. KG (today GO Druck Media Verlag GmbH & Co. KG) based in Kirchheim unter Teck. In January 2005, the printing division was spun off into the independent subsidiary Bechtle Druck & Service.

In October 2016, the Stuttgarter Zeitung , with a 24% minority shareholder until then, took over a further 63% of the Bechtle publishing house from the previous majority shareholder Christine Bechtle-Kobarg. After almost 150 years, the founding Bechtle family's commitment to the Eßlinger Zeitung ended. The remaining 13% are still owned by GO Verlag, which publishes the Kirchheim daily newspaper Der Teckbote .

Www.esslinger-zeitung.de was revised again in 2016 and a digital subscription was introduced, which includes an e-paper for stationary computers and notebooks, the e-paper app for tablet PCs and access to all articles from esslinger-zeitung.de includes. In addition, a “news desk” was introduced in the editorial office.

Since 2017, the Bechtle publishing house has been part of the newspaper group of the Südwestdeutsche Medienholding (SWMH) , whose best-known titles include the Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Stuttgarter Zeitung .

New look for the 150th anniversary in 2018: Relaunch of the Eßlinger Zeitung and introduction of a new editorial system. E-paper subscribers receive the Eßlinger Zeitung as early as 7 p.m.

The Eßlinger Zeitung celebrates its 150th anniversary with an open day in the publishing house on Zeppelinstrasse and a ceremony in the Esslinger Neckar Forum.

distribution

The newspaper appears in several editions: Stadtausgabe, Kreis und Filder, Cannstatter Zeitung and Untertürkheimer Zeitung .

Edition

The Esslinger Zeitung , like most German newspapers in recent years to rest lost. The circulation sold has decreased by an average of 2.2% per year over the past 10 years. Last year it decreased by 5.6%. It is currently 32,486 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 89.4 percent.

Development of the number of copies sold

The edition for the city of Esslingen has a sold circulation of 26,007 copies. The share of subscriptions in the circulation sold is 91.7 percent.

On-line

The Eßlinger Zeitung has been on the Internet since 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Esslingen am Neckar: Statute on the form of public announcements. New version of November 13, 1972. In: esslingen.de, accessed on April 25, 2019 (PDF; 54 kB).
  2. ↑ according to IVW ( details on ivw.eu )
  3. ↑ Henning Kornfeld: The SWMH snaps: Medienholding takes over the majority in "Eßlinger Zeitung". In: Kress.de , October 7, 2016, accessed April 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ according to IVW ( online )
  5. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )
  6. ↑ according to IVW , fourth quarter in each case ( details on ivw.eu )
  7. ↑ according to IVW , second quarter 2020, Mon-Sat ( details and quarterly comparison on ivw.eu )