Jordan & Timaeus

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Jordan and Timaeus' chocolate factory in Dresden-Neustadt (1856/1858)
Ornate bookmark by Jordan & Timaeus (early 20th century)

Jordan & Timaeus was a Saxon chocolate company based in Dresden , and one of the first chocolate factories in Dresden .

history

Gottfried Heinrich Christoph Jordan (1791–1860) and August Friedrich Timaeus (1794–1875) founded the company in 1823. The factory was located between today's Timaeusstrasse and Jordanstrasse to the east of Königsbrücker Strasse in Dresden- Antonstadt .

Food such as chicory coffee , pasta and chocolate were produced there. In 1839 they developed the first milk chocolate . The factory, which initially had to work without a steam engine, expanded from year to year. In 1830 the two entrepreneurs were able to set up a steam engine and move on to chocolate production, in which area their company gained a worldwide reputation and made a significant contribution to reducing the consumption of foreign chocolate in Germany in favor of domestic production. Although a fire in the late autumn of 1845 destroyed their factory building, their business was not permanently disrupted. Rather, they expanded it by, after the factory was rebuilt in the winter of 1845 to 1846, in addition to the production of drinking chocolate and cocoa masses in bars, they also began to produce finer chocolates for desserts and for snacking, which also made them great success at home and abroad scored. After the death of the founders, the owners were Ernst Jordan as well as Eduard, Albert and Gerhard Timaeus.

There were branches in Leipzig as well as abroad in Děčín (Bodenbach), Vienna, Prague and Budapest. In 1874 the total number of employees was around 500.

The owners of Jordan & Timaeus were appointed purveyors to the imperial court and purveyors to the royal Saxon court .

The company in Dresden was nationalized in 1945. In the former ČSSR , it continued to produce under the name Diana , was bought by the Nestlé food company after 1990 and closed. Employees saved knowledge and machines and continue to produce in a small factory in Jordanka - bývalá čokoládovna (German: former chocolate factory), Trzni 2, Děčín . The former factory building there stood on the property of Trzni 16, Děčín. The Jordan chocolate produced today is sold in the cafe at Husovo namesti 117.

Trivia

Since the end of 2011, according to a study by the Dresden scientists' association WIMAD and the Technical University of Dresden, it has been proven that the first milk chocolate comes from Dresden. Until now, the Swiss were considered the inventors of milk chocolate (in 1875), but the Dresden chocolate factory Jordan & Timaeus had already advertised its own milk chocolate made from donkey milk 30 years earlier.

Around 1880, the company had a particularly unusual advertising idea by packing 5 different chocolate bars in a red canvas cassette, which was deceptively based on a Baedeker travel guide and was distributed as Baedeker's land of milk and honey .

literature

  • Illustrated newspaper. NF VIII. Volume No. 508. P. 204. 205. Leipzig 1853.
  • Dresdner Anzeiger April 2, 1875. 4. Supplement.
  • Bettina Klemm. Once a stronghold of the sweet . Saxon newspaper. 30./31. December 2000. p. 10.

Web links

Commons : Jordan & Timaeus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Jordan and Timäus' Chocoladen- & Cichorie-Factory in Dresden  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Sandler: Handbook of the efficiency of the entire industry in Germany, Austria, Alsace-Lorraine and Switzerland, 2nd volume, published by Herm. Wölfert´s Buchhandlung (1874), 2nd series, Kingdom of Saxony, p. 3
  2. ↑ coordinates 50 ° 46 '29.67 "  N , 14 ° 11' 56.58"  O
  3. ↑ coordinates 50 ° 46 '27.72 "  N , 14 ° 11' 51.3"  O
  4. ↑ Tomas Gärtner: Church twin in Northern Bohemia . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 6, 2019, p. 16 .
  5. ↑ Who invented it? (No longer available online.) In: Mitteldeutschland.com. December 9, 2011, archived from the original on November 13, 2013 ; Retrieved December 16, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Compare the images on the websites of Ketterer's 391st Munich Art Auction ( digitized ) and the Verband Deutscher Antiquare eV ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 8.4 "  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 5.1"  E