Hanoverian cotton spinning and weaving mill

Hanover's cotton spinning and weaving mill around 1860

The Hanoverian cotton spinning and weaving mill was founded in 1853 by Adolph Meyer and Alexander Abraham Cohen in Hanover as a stock corporation. It was one of the first large spinning mills in the Kingdom of Hanover and with an enormous share capital of 1 million thalers for the time, one of the largest.

history

The spinning mill was the first factory of its kind in Germany to be built according to the " Fairbairn system" (integration of machines and transmission systems in the architecture, construction without wood, made of fire-resistant materials). The engineer William Fairbairn, who was hired from England, also provided the design for the entire factory architecture.

After the founding phase, operations began in 1855 (on the site of today's Linden thermal power station on today's Spinnereistraße). It was intended as a kind of subsidiary of the neighboring mechanical weaving mill , but legally independent. The factory was designed for 668 automatic spinning machines with 52,160 fine spindles and 400 mechanical looms. From the beginning of the 1860s, the production of nettle and calico was considerably restricted, as competing companies from Westphalia produced these fabrics more cheaply. A decade later, however, 78,000 spindles were in operation, and around 4.3 million pounds of raw darning yarn ("twist") were produced. The very rationally working company made a significant contribution to the development of this branch of industry in Germany with various innovations.

The business year 1871/72 brought in a record profit of 1/3 of the share capital. The next year, in 1872, the decision was made to build their own weavers' settlement . In 1874 there were 350 men, 442 women and girls and 100 children.

In the course of the global economic crisis , the company - like the nearby Mittelland Gummiwerke - had to file for bankruptcy and was closed in 1939.

Other personalities

• Adolf Grahn (1841–1911), employed businessman, is considered the oldest gymnastics guide in Lower Saxony

literature

• Albert Lefèvre: The contribution of the Hanoverian industry to technical progress. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series 24 (1970), pp. 163–298, here: p. 269
• Ludwig Hoerner : agents, bathers and copists. Hannoversches Gewerbe-ABC 1800–1900 . Ed .: Hannoversche Volksbank , Reichold, Hannover 1995, ISBN 3-930459-09-4 , here: pp. 35–39
• Walter Buschmann : Linden trees. History of an industrial city in the 19th century. In: Sources and presentations on the history of Lower Saxony , vol. 75, Hildesheim 1981, here: pp. 134, 141, 254f.
• Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hanoverian cotton spinning and weaving mill. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 259 (with a small black and white copy of a lithograph from 1856).

Web links

Commons : Hannoversche cotton spinning and weaving  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Mlynek : 1929. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 167f. online through google books
2. ↑ Dirk Böttcher : GRAHN, Adolf. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 134.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '20.7 "  N , 9 ° 42' 54.5"  E