Louisenthal
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Louisenthal is a district of the municipality of Gmund am Tegernsee in the Miesbach district . Today a production facility of Giesecke + Devrient Currency Technology for security papers for banknotes is located here .
History of the establishment of master craftsmen in Louisenthal
Mills of Jacob Deisenrieder
The history of Louisenthal begins in 1818 with the establishment of watchmaking by Jacob Deisenrieder. The watchmaking of Jacob Deisenrieder was taken over in 1839 by the mechanic Johann Mannhardt, born in Pürstling / Gmund, together with the businessman Niggl from Tölz and the merchants Erich and Roeddorfer, as well as the mechanic Drossbach.
Iron hammer mill
In the following year, its partners expanded it into a machine factory with a hammer mill . The massive cast-iron roof structure of the Walhalla comes from this factory, to which a mechanical flax spinning mill was also connected. The tower clock from Louisenthal still in existence today also dates from this period.
Production of the Gmund pencils
Due to poor transport connections, the company was unprofitable and was sold. Until 1859, wire nails were produced in the factory by the subsequent owner, the Munich merchant Stegmeyer, the well-known Gmund pens .
Kneip health resort
In 1861, the Munich coffee house owner Probst acquired the entire facility and built a Kneip health resort on site , which also became unprofitable, so that the building and the extensive area were sold to the Swiss merchant Schultes in the course of the auction in 1863.
Naming factory Louisenthal
The merchant Schultes built a mechanical cotton spinning mill on the site and received permission from King Max II to name the company Louisenthal in memory of the Duchess Louise , daughter of King Max I and later wife of the Duke of Bavaria, mother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria , called Sissi.
Foundation of the paper mill
In 1878, the government master builder Carl Friedrich Haug junior , co-owner of the Müller am Baum paper factory , the only son alongside nine sisters of the Tübingen historian Carl Friedrich Haug , acquired the area with the buildings of the former Louisenthal spinning factory and the former factory for the manufacture of iron goods.
Haug saw it as promising to build a paper mill at this location . This is how the Louisenthal paper mill came into being in 1879 ; It started production with its first Fourdrinier paper machine .
Wood grinding shop - Canal bridge - Electric power plant
In 1884 the wood grinding shop was built in the Mühltal and in 1889 the canal bridge over the Mangfall was built . In the same year an electric power plant was built. The first power transmission with the help of electricity was developed at this location in Germany. The Rainmühle wood grinding shop was founded in 1890 and a second paper machine was installed in the Louisenthal plant .
Local train from Gmund to Schaftlach
Since almost all of the previous owners failed due to the unfavorable traffic conditions, Haug pushed ahead with the construction of a local railway from Schaftlach to Gmund. After the railway opened in 1883, horse-drawn carriage from Gmund to Schaftlach became superfluous.
Mangfall flood
A Mangfall flood in 1899 caused severe damage to the machinery and buildings, so that the entire operation had to be temporarily shut down. In the years that followed, up to the First World War , the paper mill was able to continue to operate successfully, now under the direction of Arthur Haug. In the years of the First World War from 1914 to 1918, the Louisenthal paper mill was only able to continue working with severe restrictions.
The 50th anniversary of the paper mill
In 1929 the Louisenthal paper mill celebrated its 50th anniversary. In the anniversary year, the owners were Christiane Haug, geb. Boehringer (1846-1931), widow of the company founder Carl Friedrich Haug junior (1838-1908), her son Kommerzienrat Arthur Haug (1873-1945), Major a. D., shot dead in Louisenthal on May 3, 1945, and her son-in-law Dr. phil. Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Förderreuther (1860–1942) as a partner.
Sale to banknote and securities printing company Giesecke & Devrient
Until 1964, the Louisenthal paper mill was privately owned by the descendants of the Carl Friedrich Haug junior family and the Dr. phil. A. Förderreuther. In 1964 the factory was sold to Giesecke & Devrient . Today the factory produces security papers for banknotes . In the following year the construction of a cylinder mold paper machine for banknotes and a new boiler house as well as the establishment of a testing and development laboratory began. In autumn 1966 the new plant was put into operation, and in 1967 the production of banknote paper and security papers of all kinds could be started. In 1972 the first Eurocheque papers were printed in series.
Modernization and expansion
In the period from 1976 to 2010, Giesecke & Devrient invested in the Louisenthal paper mill in the continuous improvement of all technical systems. A widening of the paper machine was initiated and the technical equipment was expanded. In addition, a finishing department was set up. New workshops were set up and the expansion of the research and development area was pushed ahead. The office space was also expanded.
In 1990 the third generation of the Deutsche Mark was introduced . For the first time, a German banknote with window thread was put into circulation. For the "first care" of the new federal states in the course of the German reunification , a considerable amount of this certificate had to be produced in a short time. The Louisenthal paper mill became the exclusive paper supplier. In 1994, the installation of the carried hologram - application machine (OVSI) and the realization of the world's first banknote paper with hologram strips for the Bulgarian 2000 leva -Schein.
The Giesecke & Devrient group of companies also acquired the Königstein paper mill in 1991 to expand their production capacities and thus increased their production from 3500 tons in 1991 to around 10,000 tons in 2010.
Foil production
In 1999 Giesecke & Devrient entered film production together with a joint venture partner. The development of longlLife banknote paper with increased durability properties was successfully advanced. In 2002, with the introduction of the euro, the Louisenthal paper mill became the largest paper supplier for the new banknotes. After a reorganization in working paper Louisenthal , working paper Koenigstein and work sheet Louisenthal began in Louisenthal factory foil his own film production in of 2003. In 2005, the first banknote with a transparent window varifeye (R) , a Bulgarian 20-leva note, was issued . In 2006 the Louisenthal film factory was expanded , and in 2007 the development of Synthec (R) - banknote paper with increased durability.
Current developments
In 2008 the new products with verifeye C2 and security thread ColourShift / ColourFix followed , and production of the sample note "Yvone" began. The hybrid production product launch, Sample Note Yvonne, followed in 2009.
In 2009 the new PM4 paper machine was put into operation in the Koenigstein foil factory . The PM4 is currently the most modern and fastest cylinder mold paper machine in the world.
In 2010, the first Kazakh 1000 tenge banknote was issued. It is the first note in circulation with the characteristics verifeye and magic .
Worth seeing
The listed main building of the machine works (house no. 2), a three-storey classical plastered building built around 1835 with strongly framed triangular gables and roof turrets .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e quoted from the publication on the development of the Giesecke & Devrient company into a manufacturer of security papers for banknotes.
- ↑ a b quoted from the documentation of the Feuerlein family association, tribe Conradi
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Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ' N , 11 ° 45' E