Gaißmayer & Schürhagl
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| founding | 1864 |
| resolution | 1924 |
| Seat | Scheibbs , Austria |
| management | Sebastian Schürhagl, Michael Schürhagl, Anton Schimatzek, Anton Gaißmayer, Rudolf Gaißmayer, Gustav Gaißmayer, Therese Schürhagl |
| Number of employees | 170 |
| Branch | Metal processing |
The company Gaißmayer & Schürhagl was a factory for the production of car axles and was located in Scheibbs -Heuberg at the turn of the century. In addition to the factories of Andreas Töppers and von Weiß & Sohn , the company was a large-scale plant in the Eisenwurzen region in Lower Austria .
history
In 1851 the Heuberghammer in Scheibbs-Heuberg was bought by master hammer Sebastian Schürhagl , who came from Boding near Frankenfels and was born in Lassing in 1804 , as well as the Strudenhammer in Neustift, which Franz Wertheim bought in 1861 and set up a tool factory there. The Heuberghammer is already mentioned as Mühl in Heyberg in 1462 , in 1770 the hammer belonged to Philipp and from 1814 to Gottfried Punzengruber, who set up a scythe hammer in 1828. In 1837 it is taken over by Franz Huber, who in the same year renewed a bridge over the Erlauf in addition to his work, the so-called Heubergbrücke .
In 1864 Anton Gaißmayer joins this hammer as financier and the company Gaißmayer & Schürhagl is founded. Are produced mainly axles, ram axes , Mother axes, axes wing, Kalesch lubricating axles and plow axes, and later Colings Patent axes and automobile axles, as well as car brakes, Kalesch- and freight car brakes. The factory mark on the car brakes was the crown, and an anchor was stamped on the axles as a factory mark. In 1852, the plant consisted of the following systems: a separating fire, two stretching fire, a blow and a stretching mill. 11 workers were employed.
In 1873 the company was renamed A. Gaissmayer & Schürhagl through a partnership agreement. Schürhagl's successor was only his son Michael Schürhagl, later Schürhagl's share was taken over by his son-in-law Rittmeister Anton Schimatzek by marriage. The company is expanded to include one blow and two white heat fires, the factory is also expanded, a soft cast factory for the production of gears, brass bushes, nuts, etc., which are exported to the Balkans, Germany and Russia. In 1878 a company fire brigade was founded as the second platoon of the Scheibbs volunteer fire brigade , which was dissolved in 1938.
In 1908 five dynamo machines for hydropower with 500 hp were set up, a weir was built in the Erlauf to generate energy, and a chimney and steam turbine for the electrical works were built in 1911–1913 to replace four water wheels in the old hammer. The workers received an electricity allowance . The factory grew rapidly and employed 140 workers in 1908, 150 in 1914 and 170 in 1916.
After the collapse of the monarchy, the factory was shut down in 1924 due to sales difficulties. The export to the former crown lands of the monarchy , Bukovina , Poland, Hungary, Galicia , Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, which were the main buyers of axes, could no longer be carried out. In addition, the demand for car axles was dwindling due to the advent of the automobile, and foreign competition was too strong economically.
From 1924 Ludwig Weinbrenner acquired the area piece by piece for his clay industry Scheibbs and built his ceramic factory there.
Awards
- Silver medal exhibition Krems 1864
- Honorary award exhibition Linz 1865
- Bronze medal agricultural exhibition Vienna 1866
- Silver medal exhibition Salzburg 1868
- Merit Medal World Exhibition Vienna 1873
- Honorary diploma at the State Exhibition in Graz 1890
literature
- Hans Hagen Hottenroth: Tonindustrie Scheibbs 1923–1933, Scheibbser Keramik 1937. Scheibbs 1994, self-published.
- Erwin Huber: Brandstatt, Scheibbs. Then and now. Scheibbs 2009, self-published
