Calico factory St. Pölten

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Calico factory St. Pölten
legal form
founding 1786
resolution 1858
Seat St. Polten
Branch Textile industry

The St. Pölten calico factory was an Austrian factory for the production of calico and the first factory in the city of St. Pölten. It started operations around 1786 and produced until it was destroyed by fire around 1858. Today, the Dr. Theodor Körner secondary school , the only evidence of the former calico factory is the works canal through which the Mühlbach still flows.

history

In 1764 the Hamburg manufacturer Christian Friedrich Reinke moved to the Austrian Habsburg monarchy . He was first director of the calico factory in Friedau , which he possibly later acquired, and in 1780 he opened a wholesale business in Vienna . In St. Pölten in 1785 he bought the so-called Judenhofmühle in front of the St. Pölten city wall and had it converted into a calico factory.

The founding year was probably 1786. A partner of Reinke's named Amon was responsible for sales . The company quickly grew to a considerable size. So they started out on ten chairs, in 1790 there were already 690. The company had 10,820 employees, 8,913 of them as spinners.

The cotton goods factory was privately owned and, along with five other companies in Schwechat , Friedau, Kettenhof, Ebreichsdorf and Himberg, was one of the six kk priv. Zitz and calico factories . In a phase of the Depression that began in 1816, the dyeing and printing works based on the publishing system were temporarily shut down. After that he was under the management of the Faber and Wiener families during the first half of the 19th century. In 1829 the Prague company Wiener & Söhne moved a company to St. Pölten. It had already taken over the privileges of John Salthouse and Martin Ringhofer and had become a leading company in roller printing.

In 1858 or 1860 a large part of the factory burned down, which meant that textile production also came to an end forever. Around ten years later, in 1870, the deserted fire ruin was bought cheaply from the Viennese arms manufacturing company Gasser , which set up a metalworking company here. This was again shut down in 1930 and demolished in 1937. Today the Dr.-Theodor-Körner-Hauptschule , built in the 1950s, is located on the site .

literature

  • Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-205-77460-0 , pp. 597-598

Remarks

  1. ↑ Another source speaks of the year 1787. Both sources can be found here: Manfred Wieninger: Changes in the street name corpus of the state capital St. Pölten between 1900 and 1996 , diploma thesis, GRIN Verlag , 2006, ISBN 9783638562843 , p. 631.
  2. ↑ a b c Ingrid Mittenzwei: Between yesterday and tomorrow. Vienna's early bourgeoisie at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. (= Bourgeoisie in the Habsburg Monarchy , Volume 7), Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-205-98872-8 , p. 52.
  3. ^ A b c Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial heritage of Lower Austria. History-technology-architecture. Böhlau, Vienna 2006, pp. 597-598.

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 2.3 ″  N , 15 ° 37 ′ 40.9 ″  E