Industrial area St. Georgen (Bayreuth)
The Sankt Georgen industrial area is a district of the Upper Franconian city of Bayreuth .
prehistory
After the Second World War , Bayreuth found itself in a peripheral location away from the main traffic flows. It became apparent that the city had long rested on its status as a festival city. The questionable splendor as the capital of Gaus Bayerische Ostmark was the end of the Third Reich extinguished, a revival of the festival in sight. The completely inadequate and also rather one-sided industrial acquis, with all the risks of a monostructure, had not yet been removed. With a few exceptions (breweries, Franka Kamerawerk ), the textile industry dominated with three large plants, the decline of which was finally sealed in 1992 with the end of the New Cotton Spinning Mill .
At that time "the poverty of the community of Bayreuth was only really coming to light", especially since several thousand refugees who had been taken in were still living in poor barracks . To increase the taxpower, a small industrial site was set up east of the Saas settlement at the former motor sports school of the National Socialist Motorist Corps (NSKK) . Several companies also settled in the barracks district . However, these locations were not suitable for larger future plans with regard to industrialization of the city.
While Siemens' plans to settle there are demonstrably legendary, the city fathers "botched" the opportunity to relocate the Dressin cosmetics factory and let it move to Kulmbach . Its development opportunities were misunderstood in the post-war period, moreover, it was a "tasted in" entrepreneur.
Otherwise, the city council's economic development committee fought doggedly for every business and every new settlement, no matter how modest. The mayor Hans Rollwagen ( SPD ), who was in office from July 1948 , finally set the course to make the city fit for the early days of the 1950s. He is considered the "father of the city's second industrialization".
history
In 1952, the expansion of a site north of the Sankt Georgen district began . Sea battles were staged there for the pleasure of Margrave Georg Wilhelm on Lake Brandenburg, which was drained in 1775 , and it has been used for agriculture ever since. The Bayreuth – Warmensteinach railway ran along the southern edge, near which several smaller businesses had settled, especially the Insel-Schokoladenfabrik (1910), the Knorr oat flake factory (1918) and the Milchhof (1941). Rollwagen had the infrastructure for a future industrial area built, with roads, sewers, supply lines and a rail connection . At the bend of Riedinger street near the Bayreuth-Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg railway one came substation . The Bayreuth-Nord junction of today's A 9 was in the immediate vicinity, and there was ample labor available in the economically underprivileged region.
Two important companies were able to be brought to the new industrial area in 1956. The cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco (BAT; in the local parlance "Batberg") built a plant on Riedingerstrasse that went into operation on July 15, 1957. Among other things, the HB brand was produced there; in 2007 it became the Group's largest plant worldwide, with an annual capacity of 42.3 billion cigarettes. The negotiations with Max Grundig turned out to be difficult , and were only successful after a “summit talk” with the trolley. After that, however, a tape recorder factory was quickly built, which began production at the same time as the cigarette factory. In the mid-1960s, Grundig AG employed more than 2,000 people there and had its own helipad on site.
In the 1950s, the Steiner-Optik company had moved from the nearby Inselstraße on the other side of the railway line to Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße on the new site, and a company for air conditioning had also established itself. As a result, not only industrial, but especially service companies settled. There are now two hypermarkets as well as discount stores and car repair shops in that part of the Sankt Georgen industrial area .
In 1967 the industrial area was extended to a site beyond the motorway. In order to distinguish it from what was henceforth known as the North Industrial Area, the new area was named East Industrial Area . The Laineck airfield was located there until the end of the Second World War , and later a refugee camp. The city came into his possession through an exchange of territory with the Bundeswehr .
With one exception, there is no retail trade in the East Industrial Area. The most important local company is the medical technology company medi with approx. 850 employees. The energy sector includes Tennet TSO (formerly E.ON Netz), a German subsidiary of the Dutch electricity network operator Tennet .
A few years ago, the Bindlacher Allee industrial area was added between the street of the same name, the motorway and the city limits . Furniture stores and an electronics store have set up shop there. A “ logistics park” is currently being built on the site of the former Bundeswehr barracks to the east .
description
The northern industrial area has a north-south axis with Weiherstraße, the most important cross connections are Riedingerstraße , which is largely only accessible as one-way streets, and the Dr.-Hans-Frisch-Straße - Sophian-Kolb-Straße. The rail siding led from St. Georgen station in a tight 90 ° curve and from there straight to the north. It crossed several industrial companies, including Grundig and BAT. Remnants of it are still there, but they are lying idle and are no longer connected to the main track. In the north of the area, a recycling company has a siding, which is served from the Bindlach train station .
In the east industrial area there is a siding to the company medi, which is also no longer used. The area is accessed in the south from the old Bindlacher Allee, to the north via Christian-Ritter-von-Langheinrich-Straße.
In recent years the industrial area has expanded beyond the city limits into the neighboring municipality of Bindlach. There are the industrial areas Bindlach-Süd and Bindlach-Süd-West , which have now grown almost seamlessly with the Bayreuth areas. a. the headquarters of the textile discounters NKD .
Public transport
The north and Bindlacher Allee areas are accessed by the regional train line R32 at the peripheral Sankt Georgen train station and the city bus route 302, the industrial area east via the Laineck train station and the city bus 301. Public transport is part of the tariff area of the Greater Nuremberg Transport Association (VGN).
literature
- Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth - The last 50 years . 2nd Edition. Ellwanger / Gondrom, Bayreuth 1988, p. 97 ff .
- Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - rediscovered . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-60-9 , pp. 227 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quote by Bernd Mayer from Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth - The last 50 years . 2nd Edition. Ellwanger / Gondrom, Bayreuth 1988, p. 105 .
- ↑ a b Quote from Bernd Mayer from Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth - The last 50 years , p. 106.
- ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - rediscovered . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-60-9 , pp. 230 .
- ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth - The last 50 years , p. 108.
- ↑ Chronicle at bat.de, accessed on November 19, 2014
- ↑ 50 years ago in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of January 30, 2019, p. 10.