Kronenbrotwerke
| Kronenbrotwerke AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | around 1895 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| management | Moritz Hafner |
| Number of employees | several hundred (1925) |
| Branch | food industry |
The Kronenbrotwerke were an important Viennese bread factory , which was located in the 10th district of Favoriten .
history
The Erste Wiener Kronenbrot-Werke were founded around 1895 as a small black and white bakery that quickly became successful. Among other things, the nobility and the imperial court were supplied. For his services, the owner Moritz Hafner received the title of kuk court purveyor .
The company was founded in 1918 under the leadership of the First Viennese Walzmühle Vonwiller & Co. AG. converted into a stock corporation. Despite all the turmoil of the post-war period, it developed into an important bread factory and in the 1920s was one of the largest and best-known bread factories in Europe.
In the 1920s, Kronenbrotwerke AG was equipped with modern machinery and great importance was attached to the high-quality production of the bread. The entire workforce received work clothes at the company's expense. Shower rooms and their own dining and relaxation rooms were available to the workers. In addition, the Kronenbrot works also had a fig coffee factory and brought under the "sun Feigenkaffee" a fig coffee in the trade.
Deliveries were made daily throughout Vienna and the surrounding area by our own car and horse-drawn vehicle. In the mid-1920s, the plant employed several hundred workers and civil servants.
The Kronenbrotwerke were bought up by their competitors, the Hammerbrotwerke, in 1937 and then shut down.
literature
- The Kronenbrotwerke. In: Reichspost , June 28, 1925, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
- Helge Zoitl. Against the usury! The foundation of the Wiener Hammerbrotwerke . Contemporary history, 1988/16, 3.