Katzau

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Katzau (1869–1873 Simon Katzau , then Dr. Felix and Richard Katzau ) was a cotton mill in Babí near Náchod in eastern Bohemia . It traded as "Spinnerei S. Katzau Nachod" ( S. Katzau in Czech , přadelna bavlny ) and existed from 1869 until it was nationalized after World War II in 1945.

history

In 1864, the textile entrepreneur Isaac (Izák) Daniel Pick (1824–1904) founded a linen spinning mill with 4000 spindles in the meadows of Dolní Babí to the south-east of the village, employing more than 700 workers.

After its bankruptcy in 1869, it was acquired by the Viennese entrepreneur Simon Katzau (1809–1873) and converted into a cotton mill. After his death in 1873, the sons Dr. Felix Katzau (1848–1926) and Richard Katzau (1849–1924) run the company. In the 1890s the Katzau company employed more than 400 workers, the number of which doubled by 1914. The number of spindles had increased fivefold by 1909. In 1908 the Katzau company built workers' apartments based on a design by the Viennese architect Viktor Postelberg (1869–1920).

After the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918, strikes broke out in 1922 due to the influence of the left-wing party, among others in the Katzau company. From 1928 to 1930 she built a row house colony with workers' apartments based on the design of the Viennese architect Adolf Loos . A sports club was established for employees in the 1930s. Even before the start of the Second World War the company was Katzau arisiert . From 1943 on, aircraft engines were manufactured and repaired for Deutsche Lufthansa AG in the factory buildings for war purposes .

After the end of the war in 1945, the Katzau company was nationalized in 1945 and incorporated into the Nachoder Textilverband Tepna. The company archive of the Katzau company for the years 1898 to 1950 is in the collection “S. Katzau, přadelna bavlny, Babí u Náchoda ”in the Zámrsk State Archives .

literature

  • Lydia Baštecká, Ivana Ebelová: Náchod . Náchod 2004, ISBN 80-7106-674-5 , pp. 176, 180-183, 215 and 246.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neue Freie Presse, September 17, 1904, page 20
  2. ^ Neue Freie Presse, August 10, 1926, page 14
  3. ^ Neue Freie Presse, February 1, 1926, page 19
  4. ^ Neue Freie Presse, February 17, 1920, p. 12
  5. ↑ It is not clear from the sources given who ran the company after Felix Katzau's death in 1926. Presumably it came to Richard Katzau's widow Olga Katzau, née Reich (1875–1942).
  6. ^ Zámrsk Archives