Paltim hat factory

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Former hat factory Paltim

The hat factory PALTIM (popularly hat factory in Josefstadt , Romanian Fabrica de pălării din Iosefin , Hungarian Józsefváros Kalapgyár ) was a factory for the production of headgear in the Splaiul Nicolae Titulescu Nr. 5 in IV. District Iosefin ( German  Josefstadt ) of west Romanian city of Timisoara ( German  Timisoara ), on the right side of the Bega . The building is a listed building .

history

The hat factory was probably built between 1882 and 1899, the sources vary with regard to the year it was founded. The years 1882, 1896 and 1899 are mentioned. The start-up capital was 1.5 million kroner, whereby the founder of the PALTIM company, Philip Lenstein , succeeded in drawing 600,000 kroner Austrian capital from the entrepreneurs Faller, Pieck and Riecken. PALTIM was the first factory of its kind in southeast Europe.

In 1900, when the building was completed, production in the hat factory began. Soon after it was founded, 650 dozen different headgear made of cotton and 80 dozen made of rabbit fur were given as daily production figures. The factory had a steam engine with an output of 20 horsepower. The number of employees ranged from 480 to 500, of which 70% were women. The headgear was exported to all of Europe but also to North and South America. During the First World War , PALTIM manufactured hats and boots for the Austro-Hungarian military. A public bath, a canteen and a lounge were available to the workers.

Civilian and military berets were added to the original product range in 1952 after investments in the company . The factory was the only one in Romania that made these products. In 1972 PALTIM also began producing protective helmets. The company was nationalized between 1948 and 1990, but returned to private ownership in 1990. The privatization process was acquired in 1995 with a share capital of 3,754,754,000 lei. Part of the company has been taken over by the workers' union.

In 2006 more than 60% of the company shares were taken over by SC “Romarta” SA from Bucharest . In the same year the last hat was produced before the last 140 workers left the factory the following year. Most recently she produced hats and caps made of wool, cotton and rabbit hair, civil and military berets, hats made of thermoplastic, gloves and scarves made of various fabrics.

It was later taken over by an American real estate investment fund. Today the factory is used by artists as a studio and meeting place.

Branch in Periam

In addition to the hat factory in Timișoara, another hat factory produced from 1892 until the post-war period in Periam, about 40 kilometers north-west . In 1865 the hat maker Johann Wohl made the first hats in Perjamosch. In the following years Johann Rudach laid the foundation stone for the local hat factory. The hat factory began production in 1892. The main shareholder was Ioan Korber. Among other things, the hat brand Korber was manufactured here under the name Lux Periam . In the course of corporate concentration in the second half of the socialist era, it was assigned as a branch of the Timișoara plant.

Production here stopped in late 1996, but resumed in April 1997. On August 1, 2006, the factory was closed.

literature

  • Ioan Munteanu and Rodica: Timişoara, Monograph. Editura Mirton, Timișoara 2002.

Filmography

  • Fabrica de palarii - Timișoara (1921)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gtztm.ro ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 246 kB), Lista Monumentelor Istorice 2004 des Județ Timiș , TM-II-mB-06168, in Romanian
  2. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Rieser: Timisoara: geographical description of the Banat capital, Volume 1 of series of publications of the Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-7995-2501-7 , p. 124 .
  3. ↑ a b c banateanul.gandul.info ( Memento from December 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Banațeanul, Horatiu Ardelean, Geanina Jinaru, Marian Buga: Fabricat în Banat , April 14, 2008.
  4. ↑ a b c dccpcnjtimis.ro ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Corpul administrativ al Fabricii de Pălării (secolul XX) , October 27, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b c d primariatm.ro , Primaria Municipiului Timișoara, Octavian Lescu: Fabrici functionale inainte de 1900 , February 2008.
  6. ^ Ioan and Rodica Munteanu: Timișoara, monograph. Editura Mirton, Timișoara, 2002.
  7. ↑ a b c Gândiri noi, cu bani europeni: Hală de pălării readusă la viaţă şi stână cu panouri fotovoltaice. In: digi24.ro. October 10, 2015, accessed February 12, 2017 .
  8. ↑ e-oferta.ro , Lux Periam SA
  9. ↑ Hans-Heinrich Rieser: The Romanian Banat: a multicultural region in upheaval: geographic transformation research on the example of the recent development of cultural landscapes in southwest Romania, Volume 10 of Series of the Institute for Danube Swabian history and regional studies . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7995-2510-6 , pp. 240 .
  10. ^ Anton Zollner: Germanism is also disappearing in Perjamosch. November 2001.

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 21 ° 12 ′ 59.5 ″  E