Sohre leather factory
| Leather factory FG Sohre AG Leather factory Heinrich Berger & Co. VEB leather factory "Peace Frontier" Ostritz VEB Freitaler leather factory |
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| founding | 1922 |
| resolution | 1991 |
| Seat | Freital - Deuben , Germany |
| Branch | Leather manufacturing |
The leather factory FG Sohre AG was a company in the Deuben district of the Saxon city of Freital . Production ceased in 1991 and the factory building was demolished in 2019. A district park with an open mill moat is to be created.
history
In 1842, a velvet factory was founded on today's Deubener Poisentalstrasse not far from Weißeritz , which the brothers Carl and Ernst Berndt ran. This velvet factory was the first in the Kingdom of Saxony to produce Manchester fabrics using looms powered by steam engines. The operation was spread over several small production buildings and stretched on both sides of the street. From 1893, the leather factory founded by the brothers Karl Oswald Sohre (1854–1914) and Heinrich Reinhold Sohre (1852–1912) began production in a much larger, mostly four-storey factory building. After a fire in 1899, it was rebuilt by 1909. The neighboring velvet factory soon perished. Like Egermühle , which is only a short distance away , the factory had been connected to rail traffic by the Deuben freight company since 1906 . It was operated with trolleys until 1972 , which were transferred to the Dresden – Werdau railway line at the Deuben tram station . From the Deubener Weißeritzmühlgraben , which runs through the company premises, around 90 m³ of service water was taken every hour.
The entrepreneur Heinrich Berger founded a tannery in Ostritz (near Görlitz ) in 1889 . Sohre and Berger merged in 1922 to form the “Heinrich Berger & Co. Leather Factory”. The enlarged company produced leather goods for express trains in both plants . Pistol pouches and air force equipment were also manufactured at the factory for World War II .
The plant remained undamaged during the war, so that production could be fully resumed after the invasion of the Red Army . In June 1946, 237 workers were employed in the Freital plant. With the referendum in Saxony on June 30, 1946 , the company was expropriated. The two plants were separated into the VEB Lederwerk "Friedensbound" Ostritz and the VEB Freitaler Lederfabrik .
After reunification and reunification , the work went to the Treuhandanstalt , which stopped production in 1991. The buildings were transferred to TLG Treuhand Liegenschaftsgesellschaft , which sold them to Akel & Schmidt GbR in 2000. Large parts of the factory at the rear of the site have since been demolished, and in 2004 a supermarket opened on part of the cleared area. The remaining parts of the building are under monument protection , but are not used. There were plans to set up the tax office for the district in the building or to move the new seat of the school supervisory authority and the Saxon education agency here. Both plans failed, however. In 2014, the city of Freital bought the site and considered redevelopment with later use for creative people. After the project did not materialize, the Freital city council decided in 2017 to demolish it. The monuments authority of the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains advocated the granting of a demolition permit under monument protection law, but could not agree on a common position with the State Office for Monument Preservation.
In September 2019 the leather factory was demolished and the fallow land intended for renovation. A park is to be created and the Mühlgraben created as a stream.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Juliane Puls: Freital. Based on coal and steel. Erfurt 2004, ISBN 3-89702-659-7 , p. 81
- ↑ a b Main State Archive Dresden: VEB Lederwerk “Friedensbound” Ostritz ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Katrin Schulze: GQ 1612 - What led the Allies to Freital-Birkigt on August 24, 1944 , Freital 2011, p. 10 f.
- ↑ The history of the leather factory . In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 19, 2009
- ↑ The leather factory . In: Sächsische Zeitung, July 13, 2007
- ↑ Dorit Oehme: Leather factory: future still uncertain . In: Sächsische Zeitung, December 18, 2009
- ↑ Tax office could be in leather factory . In: Sächsische Zeitung, May 8, 2008
- ↑ Waiting for the House of Education . In: Sächsische Zeitung, December 31, 2011
- ^ Tobias Winzer: Dispute with the authorities about the demolition of the leather factory. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Sächsische Zeitung, May 27, 2018
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 13 ° 39 ′ 7.5 ″ E