Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik

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Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik A / S
legal form Corporation
founding 1843
resolution 1997
Seat Hasle , Bornholm
Number of employees 1877: 120 to 130; 1950: 1,200; 1970: 700
Branch Coal and ceramic industries

The Hasle clinker og Chamottestensfabrik A / S at Sorthat-Muleby on the west coast of Bornholm , about three kilometers south of Hasle located, tiles produced, tiles and fireclay and later drainage and sewage pipes made of ceramic . The company was founded in 1843 under the name Hasle Klinker until it changed its name in 1889. The company existed until 1997.

Company history

Railway track (Trakbane) to the harbor, detail from a map of Bornholm around 1900

The discovery of coal under the seabed on the coast of Hasle in the 1830s led to the establishment of Hasle Klinker in 1843 , which, in addition to mining coal, initially produced bricks for building houses. The coal obtained was used to burn the bricks. 250 tons of coal were needed to burn 58,000 stones. 1000 bricks were sold at a price of 17 Rigsbankdaler . The size of the bricks was 10 inches (26 cm) long, 5 inches (13 cm) wide and 2 ¾ (7.2 cm) thick.

The raw materials coal and clay were mined locally by the company, resulting in three artificial lakes (Sø). Their names were named after the color of the respective lake bottom:

  • Rubinsøen with its thick, steep banks is located near the town of Hasle. More than 30,000 tons of lignite were mined here from 1942 to 1948.
  • the Smaragdsøen, near the clinker factory, separated from the Baltic Sea only by a dam and the beach, and
  • Safirsøen were clay pits from which the clay for brick products was extracted.

The clay ( kaolin made from weathered granite ) was of high quality and provided the essential basis for the company's 150-year history.

The company benefited from the two royal decrees of 1799 and 1832 due to the great fire in Copenhagen in 1795, according to which only bricks instead of wood and roof tiles instead of straw were allowed to be used in house construction. In the 1850s, drainage and sewer pipes made of ceramic were also produced with the introduction of drainage measures in agriculture.

In 1872 the company was converted into a joint-stock company with the name “Bornholms Kul- og Teglværker” ( Bornholms Coal and Brick Works ) and supported in its development by German mine engineers. At the end of 1876, coal mining was stopped because mining was exhausted and the much better English coal was cheaper for the steam engines.

The company had to be sold in 1877 due to difficult economic times. With the new owners in 1889, the company was in Hasle clinker og Chamottestensfabrik A / S renamed.

The Hasle clinker bricks were mainly sold to the countries bordering the Baltic Sea as well as within Denmark, although they could only be transported by sea. In 1895 the company was awarded the gold medal for its clinker bricks at an exhibition in Lübeck. At the turn of the century the company had 120 to 130 employees, with a high proportion of foreign workers from Germany, Sweden and Poland.

In 1928 the production spectrum was expanded to include glazed drainage and sewer pipes made of ceramic, which achieved a production share of 50% on the Danish market. The company was the largest employer in Bornholm in the 1950s, with up to 1,200 employees. Three to four ships from Hasle and Rønne were used every day to transport the products away .

Due to the new development of plastic sewer pipes on the world market, the company's sales of ceramic products fell significantly. In 1970 Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik A / S had to be sold to Bornholm County in order to keep the approx. 700 jobs in the company. In 1980 the company went to Aalborg Portland Cement . In 1997 production was completely stopped. The production halls were z. T. demolished. Today there are only rudimentary parts of the building on the company premises.

The railway line has been redesigned into a bicycle and hiking trail.

Industriebahn Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik

Between the Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik and the port of Hasle, a meter-gauge line was built with the port expansion from 1874 to 1877. This 3.3 km long railway line (see map of Bornholm around 1900), on which the tiles, tiles, firebricks and clinker made in the factory were transported to the port, was in operation until the company closed around 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hasle Klinker- og Chamotttestfabrik A / S. genbyg.dk, archived from the original on August 22, 2010 ; accessed on April 15, 2018 (Danish).
  2. ↑ a b c Nils Pedersen: Jernbaneskinner i Terrœnet. In: Metersporende - No. 4. 2009, accessed on April 15, 2018 (Danish).
  3. ↑ a b c d BORNHOLMS MUSEUM - NIELS-HOLGER LARSEN, BORNHOLMS INDUSTRIHISTORIE 250 ÅR, 2005 (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  4. ↑ Rubinsøen. In: 367ture.dk. Retrieved April 15, 2018 (Danish).
  5. ↑ Smaragdsøen. In: 367ture.dk. Retrieved April 15, 2018 (Danish).
  6. ↑ Safirsøen. In: 367ture.dk. Retrieved April 15, 2018 (Danish).
  7. ↑ Hasle Industries A / S, Company profile ( Memento from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Pictures of the abandoned factory halls of Hasle Klinker og Chamotttestfabrik from May 2006
  9. ↑ Pictures of the abandoned company premises from 2009

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Coordinates: 55 ° 9 ′ 22.1 ″  N , 14 ° 42 ′ 44 ″  E