Oranienburg cold rolling mill

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The VEB cold rolling mill Oranienburg was an industrial company headquartered in Oranienburg near Berlin. The company produced cold strip and tempered cold strip by means of cold rolling . VEB Kaltwalzwerk Oranienburg was the largest company in Oranienburg during the GDR and employed more than 1000 people.

history

Foundation and pre-war history

The steel spring factory in Oranienburg was built by Heintze & Blanckertz in 1916 . The factory site was between the Oranienburger Canal in the west and Kremmener Strasse in the north. To the east, Friedensstrasse delimits the site, and beyond this street is the city ​​cemetery . The plant was connected to the Nauen – Oranienburg railway line .

Nationalization and operation in the GDR

In 1945 the factory in Oranienburg was destroyed and the remains were dismantled by the Red Army . The company was founded in West Berlin. The plant in Oranienburg was nationalized.

From 1961 to 1964 a new plant was built at the site.

In 1969 the Eisenhüttenstadt Steel Strip Combine (BKE) was formed. Seven companies belonged to the combine , which until then had been under the control of VVB Stahl- und Walzwerke Berlin and VVB Eisenerz / Roheisen Saalfeld . These seven companies were: Oranienburg cold rolling mill, Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (EKO), Thale ironworks , Finow and Burg rolling mills , Olbernhau plate rolling mill and Bad Salzungen cold rolling mill .

From 1987 to 1989, the plant was modernized with equipment from French and Swedish manufacturers and was considered the most modern cold rolling mill in Europe. In 1989 1,200 employees produced an annual amount of 93,000 tons of cold-rolled steel.

Privatization, closure and re-use

In 1990 Krupp Stahl AG acquired the location from the Treuhand . Part of the purchase consisted of commitments from Krupp to employ 600 people and to invest 40 to 60 million marks. The Krupp Stahl GmbH Oranienburg went in the following years, production and employment constant downward. In 1991 the Krupp-Stahl-Gruppe achieved sales of only 24 million DM at the Oranienburg location. In 1993, Krupp decided to close the Oranienburg location, contrary to the promises made in the purchase agreement with the trust. The modern systems were sold to China by Krupp.

Most of the buildings on the factory premises were demolished and the Oranienpark shopping center was rebuilt. The company culture house with theater and canteen as well as production halls with workrooms and workshops have been preserved. In 2011 the remaining ensemble was bought by Christoph Miethke; it is marketed under the name Oranienwerk as a location for the creative industries.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jörg Raab: Control of privatization: An analysis of the control structures of the privatization of the east German shipyard and steel industry 1990-1994 . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-322-87340-8 , p. 216 f.
  2. ↑ The EKO becomes the headquarters of the VEB Bandstahlkombinat. Company history. ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt, January 1, 1969, accessed November 9, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Krupp Group promised a lot, kept nothing . In: Neues Deutschland , November 20, 1992.
  4. ^ Karl Eckart: The iron and steel industry in Europe in structural and regional change . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-12036-0 , p. 266.
  5. ^ Tilman Trebs: The cold rolling mills return . In: Märkische Oderzeitung, January 6, 2017.
  6. ^ A b Brandenburg as a place of culture: Oranienwerk

Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 4 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 24 ″  E