Hermann Bühler AG
| Hermann Bühler AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1812 |
| Seat | Sennhof (Winterthur) , Switzerland |
| management | Martin Kägi CEO Beat Denzler ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 3 |
| Branch | Real estate company |
| Website | www.hermann-buehler.ch |
The Hermann Bühler AG (also: spinning Buhler ) was the last major Swiss Feingarnspinnerei in Winterthur-Sennhof . The spinning mill was closed at the end of 2016. Now the company is devoting itself to converting the property portfolio.
history
Early years
The beginnings go back to Johann Jakob Bühler , who initially manufactured spindles and cards for mechanical looms in the early phase of industrialization . In 1812 he founded his own cotton mill near Kemptthal . In order to be able to use more water power, he moved the company to Turbenthal on the Töss in 1826 . The operation was successful and in 1832 another factory was opened in Kollbrunn under the name JJ Bühler & Söhne , the so-called "upper factory". A year after the company's founder died in 1835, a little further down the river from Kollbrunn, the company was expanded to include an additional production facility, where machines imported from England were used for the first time. In 1855 JJ Bühler & Sons was one of the largest employers in the Tösstal. From 1856, the heirs negotiated how they could divide up their businesses among themselves. In 1859 the company was finally unified and split up. The “lower spinning mill” in Kollbrunn went to Eduard Bühler , the “upper spinning mill” to his uncle Johann Heinrich Bühler and his sons.
Hermann Bühler AG
As early as 1858, Johann Heinrich Bühler transferred his shares together with his sons to JH Bühler's Sons based in Winterthur . In the same year he also acquired the Villa Flora . Two years later, a new facility was opened in Sennhof near Winterthur. After the death of his younger brother Hermann Bühler changed its name in 1897 to operate in Hermann Bühler & Co. to. Decades of steady growth followed. In 1931 the family company, which had been run as a general partnership , was converted into a stock corporation . This was necessary in order to be able to support the financial risk more broadly after the global economic crisis of 1929 and to be able to finance the necessary investments to modernize the operating facilities. The majority of the shares and the operational management remained largely under the control of the Bühler family. A capital cut in 1934 made it possible for the power transmission by cable transmission from the Linsental to be replaced by powerful turbines on a side canal of the Töss. The factory in Sennhof was formative for the village. So from 1900 the owners had several workers' houses and infrastructure buildings built. In the vernacular one spoke of the «Bühlerdorf». The “Kosthaus” built by Rittmeyer & Furrer during the First World War (a building for boarding and lodging for single workers, now used as a kindergarten) and an equally listed triple family house still bear witness to this time.
In the mid-1960s, the business was concentrated in the Sennhof site (known as the Bühler Areal) and increasingly specialized in fine yarns . In 1996 a subsidiary was founded in the USA , which is later run as an independent sister company of Hermann Bühler AG under the same operational management.
At the beginning of June 2016 it was announced that the Bühler Group will completely give up its production site in Winterthur. The subsidiary in Georgia / USA was sold to a textile company from South Korea in April 2017 in order to concentrate fully on the real estate business in Switzerland. The Bühler area is being converted into high-quality commercial and residential space in several stages.
literature
- Reto Wäckerli: How the last big spinning mill survived. In: Winterthurer Jahrbuch, Stiftung Edition Winterthur, Winterthur 2011.
Web links
- History of Bühler spinning mills in the Winterthur glossary.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Extract from the commercial register for the Canton of Zurich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ↑ [1] . Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ^ Peter Niederhäuser: Working and shopping. In: Lakes in Modern Times. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-0340-0958-4 , p. 148.
- ↑ Object workers' residence Spinnerei Hermann Bühler ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , City of Winterthur Construction Department.
- ↑ Object Kindergarten Sennhof ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , City of Winterthur Construction Department.
- ↑ The last spinning mill in Switzerland extinguishes the light. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 9, 2016, accessed July 4, 2016.
- ^ Bühler Areal - Hermann Bühler. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
