Gienanth Eisenberg
| Gienanth GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1735 |
| Seat | Eisenberg (Palatinate) |
| Number of employees | 1,300 |
| sales | 199 million euros |
| Branch | Cast iron |
| Website | www.gienanth.com |
| As of December 31, 2018 | |
The Gienanth Group is an iron foundry group with headquarters in Eisenberg (Palatinate) .
history
Gienanth GmbH in Eisenberg (Palatinate) goes back to a hammer mill that was founded in 1735 by Prince Carl von Nassau-Saarbrücken and leased a few years later by Johann Jakob Gienanth. The plant thus belonged to the widespread empire of the industrial family Gienanth (originally Guinand ), which operated iron and steel works at various locations in the Palatinate.
On the site of the ironworks, a mansion in the classical style was built for the von Gienanth family by the Mannheim builder Jacob Friedrich Dyckerhoff from 1820 to 1823 . The Eisenwerk Gienanth monument zone is included in the list of cultural monuments in Eisenberg .
The Eistalbahn , which runs along the factory premises , was used to transport goods to the remote Eistal .
Today the company acts as a solution provider in iron casting. Main products are u. a. Cylinder crankcases and add-on parts for large engines, which are mostly used as power generators, in locomotives or on ships. In addition, product solutions for the mechanical engineering and mobility industries are produced.
The iron foundry in Fronberg (Bavaria), founded in 1449, has been a subsidiary of Gienanth GmbH since 2005 .
Gienanth has been owned by Deutsche Beteiligungs AG since 2015 .
The iron foundry in Steyr, Austria, founded in 1956 by Daimler-Steyr-Puch AG, has been part of the Gienanth Group since 2018.
Iron extraction in Eisenberg
The iron industry in the Eisenberg area can be traced back to Roman times. Iron smelting existed as early as 1688. The basis for iron extraction are local iron ore deposits in the stump forest and charcoal , which came from charcoal burners from the surrounding forests.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ See inscription on the cast plate in the factory
- ↑ a b Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Ed .: Dehio Association. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1984, ISBN 978-3-422-00382-8 .
- ↑ Shallow mineral raw materials in Rhineland-Palatinate. State Office for Geology and Mining Rhineland-Palatinate, 2007, p. 72 , accessed on September 6, 2018 .
