Flax spinning mill Hirschfelde HC Müller
| Flax spinning mill Hirschfelde HC Müller Max and Helene Lehmann OHG VEB Flax spinning and linen twisting mill Hirschfelde Hirschfelder Leinen und Textil GmbH |
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| founding | 1845 |
| resolution | 2003 |
| Seat | Hirschfelde , Germany |
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| Branch | Textile industry |
The flax spinning mill Hirschfelde HC Müller is a former textile company from Hirschfelde near Zittau .
History of origin
The company was founded in 1845 as a flax yarn spinning mill by the Zittau merchant and yarn dealer Heinrich Carl Müller (1791–1876). It was the first machine flax spinning mill in the Kingdom of Saxony to operate at the entrance to the Neißetal alongside the Möle under the Rozental , which was first mentioned in the 15th century by the chronicler J. von Guben from Zittau (one located directly next to the village of Rosenthal and driven by the Neisse and grinding mill belonging to Hirschfelde) was created. After two years of construction, production began with 400 employees.
Company health insurance
With the start of production in 1847, the factory owner introduced the nursing care fund for the Müller factory and flax spinning mill in Hirschfelde . With this he took on a pioneering role in Saxony and also in Germany , since company health insurance funds were still a rarity at that time. The regulation of the statutory health insurance in the German Empire under Bismarck was only passed over 35 years later. In August 1850 the Saxon King Friedrich August II visited the flax yarn spinning mill, which was one of the first industrial companies in the Zittau administration . As a result of serious, fatal illnesses of some employees, a hospital was maintained by the company's health insurance company in Hirschfelde from 1865 .
expansion
Around 1870 the company was enlarged and the number of employees grew to around 1000. A major fire in 1877 destroyed the main production building, which was rebuilt in the English style by 1880. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the company owned the cotton spinning and warping mill in Furth near Chemnitz , flax processing plants in Marienberg and Lichtenberg in Saxony, and a branch factory for the production of twine in Wustung near Friedland in Bohemia. The son of the company's founder Heinrich Carl Müller, Heinrich Müller (1824–1899), built a brickworks in Hirschfelde in 1898 . Due to a lack of raw materials during the First World War , a flax processing plant was built in Hirschfelde from 1914 to 1917 in order to process local flax .
Ownership
Heinrich Carl Müller officially handed over the business to his son Heinrich Müller in 1871. After his death in 1899, the grandchildren of Heinrich Carl Müller, Friedrich Carl Müller and Luise Dodel, née. Müller (1863–1946), owner of the Müller property, with Friedrich Carl Müller taking over the operative business. After his early death in 1916, his widow Helene Müller, b. Knoblauch, responsible for business transactions on site. Almost a year after her husband's death in 1917, she married the textile entrepreneur and businessman Max Lehmann, who ran a canvas weaving mill in Cottbus . In 1918 the property owned by the community of heirs was divided. The Hirschfelde flax spinning mill and the adjacent sawmill were continued under the ownership of Max and Helene Lehmann OHG (open trading company) until Lehmann's death in 1940 . The other properties passed to the rest of the family. From 1940 until the expropriation by the referendum in Saxony on June 30, 1946 , Helene Lehmann was the sole owner of the flax spinning mill. After that, the company was under the administration of state-owned companies in Saxony, from 1949 as a state-owned company (VEB).
Development in the GDR
When the GDR was founded , the company traded as VEB Flax Spinning Mill and Flax Twisting Mill Hirschfelde . In 1952 there were back to 950 employees after the Great Depression and the Second World War called for a squeeze on employees. At the beginning of the 1970s, with the formation of the VEB Technische Textilien combine and the associated restructuring of the companies in Hirschfelde, production was converted. The flax processing had to give way to the production of polyamide silk threads and a new era began in the Hirschfelde production facility of VEB United Linen Industry Plant 1 Großpostwitz . Due to the shortage of skilled textile workers, Vietnamese workers were contracted in 1987 and a dormitory was created for their accommodation by then.
Post-turnaround time
After the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany that emerged Hirschfelder Leinen und Textil GmbH . After almost 20 years of interruption, the employees started again with the production of linen yarn in 1993, whereby the company had to be completely converted beforehand. After an insolvency in 2000 with 103 employees, the Chinese D'Long Group took over the fixed assets and rented the property in August 2001. It was continued with 60 employees until the end of production and the closure of the company in December 2003. The technology was outsourced to Romania in 2004 and 2005. In 2005 the property and land were sold and the owner ordered the demolition of most of the buildings, which lasted until November 2006. Then the area was sold to a local entrepreneur. As part of a revitalization measure funded by the Free State of Saxony and the City of Zittau , the owner commissioned ARD Abbruch und Recycling Dresden GmbH in November 2009 to remove the remaining buildings and design the area.
With the demolition, the traditional flax processing in Hirschfelde finally ends .
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- Historical Hirschfeld industrial trail - flax spinning mill
- Markus Ludwig: The history of the Hirschfelde flax spinning mill. 2009.
