Worsted yarn spinning mill (Leipzig)
The worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig was a company in the textile industry in Leipzig . The company site, which is now part of the Leipzig Zoo , was located on the former Pfaffendorf plant in today's Pfaffendorfer Strasse 31–33. The company was founded in 1830 as a worsted spinning mill in Pfaffendorf by the wool merchants Ferdinand Hartmann and Wilhelm Hartmann as the first factory in Leipzig; in 1836 it became Leipzig's first public limited company .
Wool merchant as a forerunner
After Ferdinand Hartmann obtained citizenship of the city of Leipzig on July 25, 1822 by signing a "document of commitment" - a prerequisite for founding the company - he and Ferdinand Portius founded a wool business in 1822. Together with the businessman Benjamin Sieverts, he signed a rental agreement on April 2, 1823 for the former hospital building in the Vorwerk Pfaffendorf.
When Portius left the company on May 1, 1829, Hartmann's nephew Wilhelm became a co-owner. After the marriage of Ferdinand Hartmann and Johanne Wilhelmine Schall, Hartmann's father-in-law Traugott Johann Schall acquired from the Leipzig City Council in 1829 “from the Pfaffendorf estate located in front of the Hallisches Tor, the estate directly behind the residential and farm buildings of this estate itself, in 1813 built, initially intended for a lazareth, but after the peace was established, rented to a woolen dealer […] ”for 12,500 thalers and initially in the name of his two sons Christian Friedrich Schall and Wilhelm August Schall. The two brothers then gave their brother-in-law Ferdinand Hartmann power of attorney to take possession of the property.
Foundation of worsted spinning mill
On January 13, 1830, Hartmann and the Schall brothers submitted an application to the city council to convert the building. The first steam engine in Leipzig was to be put into operation to drive the machines. On November 22nd, 1830, the construction work was completed and the steam engine installed.
In order to promote his son-in-law's factory, Hartmann's father-in-law paid out the daughter's share of the inheritance during his lifetime. By means of an inheritance settlement agreement concluded on May 16, 1831 before the Leipzig City Court, Johanne Wilhelmine Hartmann received "the former Raths-Lazareth building near Pfaffendorf" with the "steam and spinning machines" in it in return for payment of an annual pension to her parents. Since Wilhelm August Schall had died at the age of 36 and Christian Friedrich Schall had sold his share to his sister, Johanne Wilhelmine Hartmann had been the sole owner of the spinning mill since 1831.
Conversion into a stock corporation
To expand the factory, Hartmann and his nephew had to raise capital. With the support of the trading houses Dufour Gebrüder & Comp. and Carl & Gustav Harkort they converted the company into a "Aktienverein" in 1836. 41 shareholders founded the first public limited company in Leipzig on December 6, 1836 with an invoice from January 1, 1837. The stock association bought the buildings and machines for 88,000 thalers from the previous sole owner, Johanne Wilhelmine Hartmann. Ferdinand Hartmann became "Executive Director" of the Aktienverein and Wilhelm Hartmann his deputy.
In February 1838, the newly founded share association acquired the "Pfaffendorfer Lehde", which was located north of the factory building. Another land acquisition took place at the end of 1838.
The company after Hartmann's death
On October 23, 1842 the founder Ferdinand Hartmann died at the age of only 52 years. His successor as "Executive Director" was his nephew Wilhelm Hartmann. In 1844 he again expanded the factory premises and bought 2,139 square meters of land from the city council. On April 28, 1855, the worsted spinning mill was incorporated into the city of Leipzig, and the name of the company was from now on worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig .
In 1866 Wilhelm Hartmann left the worsted spinning mill. After his departure, there were various rationalization measures: the wool laundry was rebuilt, a new pre-spinning system was set up, a wool fat plant for the extraction of raw wool fat was set up, in a gas station lighting gas was produced for the plant.
After the Franco-German War , another modernization was tackled. The three outdated steam engines were replaced by a new one, and a new spinning mill building was built. For the first time since the company was founded, the share capital was increased by 250,000 thalers. The supervisory board required with the entry into force of the 1st amendment to stock corporation law was established at an extraordinary general meeting on February 6, 1874, and from now on a management board led the stock corporation. The years between 1880 and 1890 were among the company's most successful in business. In 1885 the large spinning shed hall was extended to Pfaffendorfer Strasse. This year, the spinning mill was the second largest in Germany with 100 combs, 48,000 spindles, 1,200 twisting spindles and 700 employees. In 1889 the company bought the 7,000 m² property from Götze. It was the villa property in the north of the site inhabited by Ferdinand Hartmann and, after his death, by Wilhelm Hartmann, which was not sold to the Aktienverein in 1836; it was called "Haus Pfaffendorf".
Up to now the spinning mill was a "raw white spinning mill", in 1892 a top-sliver printing and dyeing plant was set up, which was replaced in 1895 by a new dyeing plant. In 1907, the old spinning mill building was demolished and a new building constructed as a concrete shed construction.
During the First World War , the spinning mill produced for the army. In 1917 she turned to paper yarn spinning.
Under the roof of the Coßmannsdorf spinning mill
1927, 1880 by Franz Dietel and Felix Schmidt acquired oHG founded spinning Coßmannsdorf GmbH Hainberg in Saxony the majority of shares in Kammgarnspinnerei to Leipzig. Since the Coßmannsdorf spinning mill was a raw white spinning mill, the worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig was completely expanded into a colored spinning mill. In addition, the combing was partially rebuilt.
The sorting building from 1838 gave way to a new building, for which the foundation stone was laid on May 15, 1935. The Dresden architects Schilling & Graebner were in charge of the construction management of the new sorting building completed in 1936. The reinforced concrete building in the New Objectivity style had a facade made of red bricks and was directly adjacent to the zoo. On its south side it was raised like a tower, the adjoining lower roof zone had a striking shed roof.
In 1936, the company comprised a wool laundry, a wool combing, 62,538 spindles and 10,585 twisting spindles and employed around 1,430 people.
After the Second World War
After the destruction in World War II , the spinning mill was rebuilt, which was expropriated after the referendum in Saxony in 1946 . From then on it traded as VEB Kammgarnspinnerei Pfaffendorf . The old worsted yarn spinning company in Leipzig was deleted from the commercial register in 1948. In 1949 the mill was as Plant II in the VEB Leipziger Wollkämmerei incorporated, but in 1951 dissolved and moved the machinery, including employees in the building of the Leipzig Wollkämmerei.
VEB Kombinat ORSTA-Hydraulik Leipzig , which merged on January 1, 1970 from 15 hydraulic product companies , moved into the company building in Pfaffendorfer Strasse .
After 1990 the ORSTA-Hydraulik combine was dissolved and the site was incorporated into the zoo. On February 24, 2007, the previously listed sorting building from 1936 was demolished, after which the remaining spinning mill buildings were demolished. The Gondwanaland tropical hall was built in its place from 2007 to 2011 .
Management of the worsted spinning mill
Owner (until 1838)
- 1830–1838: Ferdinand Hartmann (1790–1842)
- 1830–1838: Wilhelm Hartmann (1808–1872)
"Executive Directors" (1838–1874)
- 1838–1842: Ferdinand Hartmann (1790–1842)
- 1843–1867: Wilhelm Hartmann (1808–1872)
- 1868–1874: Friedrich Carl Weber
Board members (since 1874)
- 1874: Friedrich Carl Weber
- 1874–1892: Councilor of Commerce Carl Walther († 1892)
- 1874–1914: Kommerzienrat Ludwig Wenzel († 1921)
- 1905–1931: Gustav Bassenge (* 1862)
- 1905–1922: Luis Voget († 1922)
- 1922–1933: Alfred Kurtze
- 1931–: Dr.-Ing. Hans Richard Wolf (* 1902)
literature
- Hans Richard Wolf: 100 years of worsted yarn spinning in Leipzig as a stock corporation 1836–1936. Worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig, Leipzig 1936.
- Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 152.
Web links
- Albert Gieseler: Steam engines and locomotives - worsted spinning mill in Leipzig
- Early documents and newspaper articles on worsted spinning in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Hans Richard Wolf: 100 years of worsted yarn spinning in Leipzig as a stock corporation 1836–1936. Worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig, Leipzig 1936.
- ^ State Archives Leipzig: 20926 - Worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig
- ↑ State Archive in Leipzig: 20939 - VEB Kammgarnspinnerei Pfaffendorf, Leipzig
- ↑ State Archive in Leipzig: 20811 - VEB Kombinat ORSTA hydraulic Leipzig
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 17.6 ″ E