JS Frie's son

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The company JS Fries son was a global engineering -Unternehmen in Frankfurt and finally in the district of Seckbach settled.

founding

On May 20, 1748, Johann Simon Fries founded a pewter foundry as a family business based at Kannengießergasse 6 at Frankfurt Cathedral that manufactured pewter dishes .

1800 to 1900

In 1807, the company received approval to set up a paint factory for sheet metal goods and paper maché and, after a stopover in the Neue Kräme, moved to Sachsenhausen . On the occasion of the expansion to include an iron foundry and machine factory in 1834 at Schulstrasse 13, the company was also entered as JS Fries Sohn. The owner was now the son of Johann Simon Fries, Heinrich Remigius Fries . The factory specialized in the production of "portable machines" (Lokomobile = locomotives ) as well as transmissions and hoists . Starting in 1840, she took on orders for the manufacture of candelabra for gas lighting in the streets. In 1843, JS Fries Sohn was the first company in Frankfurt to use a steam engine , which Heinrich Remigius Fries had asked to manufacture in-house with an output of 50 hp. Steam boilers and engines, as well as transmissions, were manufactured in the 1850s. In 1857 the company already had 200 employees. From 1890 the company developed into the leading company in fire fighting equipment technology with the manufacture and Europe-wide export of innovative steam sprayers and pneumatic ladders. Between 1890 and 1900, the number of employees grew from 450 to 600. There were mills , calenders , presses , rotary mixers, special machines and high-pressure pumps manufactured. The company achieved particular fame in Frankfurt through the construction of the Eiserner Steg over the Main (1867–1869). The glazed iron construction of the three-aisled basilica Kleinmarkthalle in Hasengasse (1879), executed by JS Fries Sohn, became the model for similar halls, for example in Dresden and Leipzig .

1900 to 1933

In 1908, JS Fries Sohn acquired a 36,000 square meter area in the Seckbacher Niederung, in the Unterfeld region. The groundbreaking ceremony took place there in June 1909 and production began on June 26, 1910 in the new factory, which consisted of three production halls, a warehouse and an administration building. As the first company ever, the company moved to the Seckbacher industrial area newly designated by Mayor Franz Adickes , where from 1913 it is directly connected to the Frankfurt port railway to the Ostbahnhof and Osthafen .

1933 to 1945

Strabokran by J. S. Fries Sohn

During the “ Third Reich ”, the company produced tanks and submarines at the Osthafen . The company also became known for the production of the Strabokran , a transportable overhead crane that was mainly used for tank repairs at the front during World War II .

Forced laborers were also employed during the Second World War . On the premises in Friesstrasse 5–7, after a 1946 report from the responsible 6th police station to the United Nations Emergency Aid and Reconstruction Administration ( UNRRA ), there were Belgians, French, Lithuanians, Dutch, Russians and others in the period from 1943 to 1945 Unknown number of Ukrainians billeted. However, these data are incomplete because some of them were destroyed either by the effects of the war or deliberately by Nazi agencies.

1946 to 1974

Fries overhead traveling crane from 1964 for the Raab Karcher company in Bingen am Rhein . Today an industrial monument.

In the post-war period, in the particularly cold winter of 1945/46, the company was involved in the complicated reconstruction of the Eiserner Steg, later also in the old bridge , the Flößer temporary bridge , in the demolition of the Wilhelmsbrücke and the subsequent reconstruction of the Friedensbrücke at the same location as well as in the reconstruction the roof trusses of Leonhardskirche , Alter Nikolaikirche , Paulskirche , Goethe-Haus , Senckenberg Natural History Museum and Römer . At the transmitter Heiligenstock in Seckbach a new 123 meter high radio was transmitting pole erected in the Imperial the largest bell Gloriosa after returning from the Hamburg cemetery bells hung up again. In 1950 the quay wall of Frankfurt's West Harbor was equipped with electric luffing cranes developed by JS Fries Sohn.

The company also worked nationwide and eventually internationally. In 1973/74 the company was liquidated . In the Seckbach industrial area, Friesstraße is named after the founder Johann Simon Fries.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ State and address handbook of the free city of Frankfurt 1852
  2. ^ Institute for Urban History Frankfurt am Main, inventory name: Familie Fries, signature: S 1/154, duration: approx. 1750–1970, finding aids: Rep. 828, deposit
  3. ^ Lerner, F .: Frankfurt am Main and its economy , Ammelburg-Verlag 1958
  4. ↑ Lukas Friedli: The armor repair of the Wehrmacht , Verlag Wolfgang Schneider 2005, ISBN 3-935107-08-0 , p. 180
  5. ↑ Economy and Labor, Forced Labor, tabular overview of forced labor in Frankfurt am Main , ffmhist.de
  6. ^ The rebuilt iron bridge in Frankfurt am Main, 1958. In: aufbau-ffm.de. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 13, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Old Bridge Frankfurt am Main around 1956. In: aufbau-ffm.de. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 13, 2014 .
  8. ^ New construction of the Friedensbrücke in 1951. In: aufbau-ffm.de. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 13, 2014 .
  9. ↑ a b c J.S. Frie's son. In: Frankfurt documentation on the post-war period, aufbau-ffm.de. Archived from the original on February 5, 2012 ; accessed on May 13, 2014 .