Egestorff ultramarine factory

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Around 1890: Bird 's eye view of the paint factory of the " Actien-Gesellschaft Georg Egestorffs Salzwerke , Linden near Hanover , department: paint factory", in the background the Lindener Berg

The Egestorffsche ultramarine factory in Hanover was the time of the Kingdom of Hanover by the industrialist Georg Egestorff founded factory for the production initially mainly the dye ultramarine . The company was located on the Davenstedter Straße on both sides of the (today's) Westschnellweg on the side of the road towards Lindener Berg . The site at the end of Bardowicker Strasse and along today's Billungstrasse is in the Hanoverian districts of Linden-Mitte and Badenstedt.

history

The first two companies that Georg Egestorff had built in Hanover were the Egestorffshall saltworks in Badenstedt , founded in 1831/1832, and the chemical factory on Göttinger Straße , founded in 1839 , right next to the Egestorff machine factory, later Hanomag , in what is now the Linden-Süd district .

In 1856 he opened an ultramarine factory together with August Egestorff. In the royal seat of Hanover, however, the Meyer & Röhrig ultramarine factory had existed since 1850 . The intention of the additional establishment was to be able to continue to use waste products from his chemical factory economically. Mainly synthetic ultramarine was produced, which could compete with the more expensive imports of the natural dye from overseas .

Envelope from 1888 with the imprint "Hannoversche Ultramarin-Fabrik / formerly Aug. Egestorff / Linden vor Hannover"

After the death of Georg Egestorffs year 1868 1872 all were salt and chemical processing companies Egestorffs combined for AG Georg Egestorff salt works and chemical factories , the paint factory changed its name but under the name Hannoversche ultramarine factory formerly August Egestorff . By increasing brine production, 60 men and 25 women were soon able to produce around 600 tons of ultramarine. Only in 1877, during the Russo-Ottoman War , did the export volume briefly decline.

In 1899 the ultramarine factory employed about 90 workers and sold its products domestically and abroad. Two years later, Paul Hirschfeld described the plant with four steam engines with a total of 220 HP and two steam boilers with a floor area of ​​300 m², with which 18,000 hundredweight of different types of ultramarine blue were produced. The factory had its own hand-made cooperage , a carpenter's shop and a patent barrel factory to pack the products in tubes, boxes, packages, boxes or barrels for shipping. Customers were producers in the manufacture of colored paper, in wallpaper and fabric printing, for chromolithographs or for coloring sugar, laundry, starch, stearin and paraffin .

In the global economic crisis that began in 1929, the ultramarine factory was only active around 1930 with the production of various red colors. When Kali Chemie acquired the majority of the shares in the former Egestorff salt and chemical factories in 1931, the ultramarine factory, as well as the chemical factory that supplied it, were relocated to Nienburg and the paint factory was completely closed.

After the West Schnellweg was built across the site of the former ultramarine factory after the Second World War , there was a small building at Davenstedter Straße 68a until the beginning of 2013. The preserved apartment building at number 69 is said to have also belonged to the ultramarine factory.

literature

  • R. Hartmann : History of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , revised reprint of the original edition from 1880 by UNICUM, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308-4 , pp. 764, 774; partly online via Google books
  • Paul Hirschfeld: The corporation Georg Egestorff's salt works in Linden near Hanover. Salt pans. Chemical factory. Paint factory , in ders .: Hanover's large-scale industry and wholesale trade, described by Paul Hirschfeld with the support of the Royal High Presidium and the Provincial Authorities of the Province of Hanover , ed. from Deutsche Export Bank Berlin, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1891; Pp. 159-162; Digitized version of the Bavarian State Library
  • Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Egestorff - Georg E. Salzwerke , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 145f., Here: p. 146

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Deviating from this, Paul Hirschfeld (see literature) mentions the founding date 1862

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Waldemar R. Röhrbein: Egestorff - Georg E. Salzwerke (see literature)
  2. ↑ a b Michael Jürging: Egestorffsche ... (see under the section Web Links )
  3. ↑ a b History of Hanover ... (see literature)
  4. ^ Franz Rudolf Zankl : Saline Egestorffshall near Badenstedt. Gouache. Around 1835 . In: Hanover Archive , Vol. 6: Die Bürgerstadt , Sheet B7
  5. ^ Paul Hirschfeld: Die Aktiengesellschaft ... (see literature)

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '58.1 "  N , 9 ° 42' 16.8"  E