Keulahütte
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| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | probably 1440 |
| Seat | Krauschwitz , Germany |
| management | Manfred Künze, Falk Werner, Andreas Lehmann |
| Number of employees | 272 (2018) |
| sales | around € 34.8 million (2018) |
| Branch | foundry |
| Website | www.keulahuettekrauschwitz.de |
The Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz is a German foundry companies in the district of Görlitz . The company, which belonged to VEM Holding until 2017, has specialized in pressure pipe fittings, fittings, hydrants as well as customer and architectural cast products. At the beginning of 2018, Keulahütte GmbH was sold to KHK Casting AG, based in Zug (Switzerland). The Krauschwitz company is to be operationally integrated into the "von Roll hydro Group" and to develop further in the areas of infrastructure casting for water and gas supplies as well as industrial casting.
history
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The Keula location has developed over centuries from an iron hammer to an ironworks to the Keulahütte foundry that exists today.
Probably the first written mention of the iron hammer in Keula was made in 1440, as the local researcher Robert Pohl in his "Heimatbuch des Kreises Rothenburg O.-L. für Schule und Haus ”from 1924 on page 73 describes it that way. Unfortunately there is no indication of any source. The oldest document found so far dates to September 3, 1513. However, it can be assumed that the hammer is at least 200 years older.
With the industrialization of Berlin in the 19th century, the company made a name for itself on water management and mechanical engineering cast products. Three quarters of the factory was destroyed during the Second World War .
The Keula ironworks became the Keulahütte in 1929.
After the war, the company developed as VEB Keulahütte Krauschwitz (KHK) , later part of VEB Magdeburger Armaturenwerke “Karl Marx” (MAW) , to a cast and fittings manufacturer. The company had a direct connection to the Weißwasser – Bad Muskau railway line . The workers' housing cooperative Keulahütte , founded in 1954, built a large number of apartment buildings for employees in Krauschwitz in the 1950s and 1960s. At times more than 1100 people were employed in the company. With the turnaround began a massive market adjustment process, as a result of which the company shrank considerably.
On January 1, 1997, the company was privatized by the Adolf Merckle family from Blaubeur . Thereafter, Keulahütte belongs to VEM Holding until 2017 .
Products
The delivery program includes pressure pipe fittings and fittings for use in drinking water, gas and wastewater, hydrants and customer cast products. The architectural cast products include replicas of historical models and street furniture.
literature
- Wolfgang Koschke: Keulahütte. Eisenhammer - iron and steel works - foundry . Ed .: Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz. Verlag Gunter Oettel, Görlitz 2010, ISBN 978-3-938583-57-9 .
- Wolfgang Koschke: Muskauer iron. Iron production in the rulership of Muskau . Ed .: Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz. Verlag Gunter Oettel, Görlitz 2013, ISBN 978-3-938583-90-6 .
- Wolfgang Koschke, Steffen Menzel: Rennherd - Hammer - Hüttenwerk. The history of Lusatian iron . Ed .: Keulahütte GmbH Krauschwitz. Verlag Gunter Oettel, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-938583-21-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau (accessed on October 26, 2018)
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 58 " N , 14 ° 42 ′ 51" E