J. Rohrbacher
The J. Rohrbacher company was an important wagon factory in Austria-Hungary and held the title of " kuk Hof-Wagenfabrik ".
history
Josef Rohrbacher came to Vienna as an apprentice and started his own business in 1844. He opened his workshop in a little house in the former suburb of Ober Sankt Veit near Vienna. Through a lot of work, discipline and a great skill in the art of car making, he was soon able to lead his company to success. He concentrated mainly on the construction of mail wagons, and a special stage in its production was the construction of an omnibus that found good sales. He took a privilege on these ten-seater omnibuses with two coupés and used them twice to beat the then better-known Parisian omnibuses in Vienna. The first time he was able to assert himself against the competition at the opening of the kk priv. Elisabeth-Westbahn , which had omnibuses from Paris to connect the train station with the city and the second time at the World Exhibition in 1873 , at which a French company and such wagons were put into circulation by the Vienna Omnibus Company.
The reputation of solid and real work steadily increased the number of orders, so that the premises were no longer sufficient and an enlargement had to be seriously considered. Rohrbacher opened his new factory in 1853, which was then further developed and enlarged over time.
Steam operation was introduced in 1872, later two steam hammers were also set up and the company worked continuously so that all car parts including axles and springs were produced in-house.
As early as the 1860s, the company was entrusted with significant orders from the Imperial and Royal War Ministry and supplied most types of train wagons, ambulance vehicles, field hospital pack wagons, field telegraph wagons, fortress field railway material, etc. Also for the royal Romanian, royal Serbian and the princely Bulgarian army were doing larger jobs. Since the 1880s, the company has also supplied all types of mail cars for the Imperial and Royal Austrian Post .
After the death of the founder Josef Rohrbacher in 1883, the factory was taken over by his sons Julius and Karl and his eldest daughter Caroline under the name J. Rohrbacher and continued in the same way.
Since the company was always fully occupied with the various orders from the Vienna area and inland, exports were only carried out on the side. Nevertheless, the factory's wagons were delivered abroad, for example, buses to Bucharest , Greece , Persia , etc., equipages to Turkey , Greece, Egypt , Persia, Russia , North America , Australia , Java , etc.
The company grew steadily over the years with the increase in production. Construction of the so-called tramway omnibuses was carried out on a special scale.
Around 1887 J. Rohrbacher built the first wagons for the Neue Wiener Tramway and for the Gmunden tram, among others. With this, the company entered a new area and took larger orders on wagons for the Viennese urban tram.
Furthermore, J. Rohrbacher also possessed the delivery capability for the artillery - howitzers -Materiale by providing a cm 10th M. 99 field men as well as a battery-ammunition rear carriage. Attempts were also made in motor vehicle construction to keep abreast of the situation. Bodies were supplied for both passenger and cargo automobiles.
For the services rendered and due to the high quality of the products, J. Rohrbacher was appointed kuk court supplier.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Rohrbacher. In: Anniversary number of the imperial Wiener Zeitung 1703-1903. Supplement commercial part. Alfred von Lindheim. Druck und Verlag KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, August 8, 1903, p. 149 , accessed on June 6, 2009 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '14.4 " N , 16 ° 16'22.7" E