Long hut

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Long hut
legal form	publicly-owned business
founding	1900
resolution	1968
Seat	Ilmenau , Germany
Number of employees	about 250 (1938)
Branch	Glassworks

The Langshütte was a German glassworks in Ilmenau ( Thuringia ) that existed from 1900 to 1968.

It was located at Grenzhammer in the southeast of Ilmenau.

history

The Langshütte was founded in 1900 by Julius Brückner. He named it after his son-in-law , Otto Lange, who would later take it over. It produced technical hollow glass such as B. thermometer capillaries or fluorescent tubes , but also household glass such as feeding bottles . Also were light bulbs from lead glass produced. A specialty of the hut were various hollow glasses made of the chemically very resistant "Super Hagol" glass, which was also melted there. Double-walled vessels were also produced for the chemical industry , which were particularly well insulated from heat and light by being mirrored with silver or copper .

After Otto Lange took over the company before the First World War , he handed it over to his son-in-law Bruno Röhl in 1923, who was arrested by the Ministry for State Security in 1951 and then tried and imprisoned. His Glassworks was then nationalized, expropriated and in a state-owned enterprise converted. When Röhl was released from prison in the 1950s, he moved to West Germany , where he died in 1968. The verdict against him was overturned in 1992 and Röhl was rehabilitated .

In 1938 about 250 people worked in the hut, making it by far the largest employer at Grenzhammer . There the company also had a connection to the Grenzhammer station of the Ilmenau-Großbreitenbacher Railway , via which many products were loaded.

In 1954 the Langshütte was incorporated into the Ilmenau glassworks , which in 1969 became part of the Technical Glass Combine . In 1968 the hut was closed.

The long hut was later demolished; today nothing is left of her. The former factory site was converted into the Langshüttenweg industrial park. Today there is a gas station, a furniture store and several small companies here.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 42 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 23 ″  E