Marble industry pine
The Marmorindustrie Kiefer company is a traditional stone industry company that was founded in Kiefersfelden during the early days and has existed to this day. It was one of the largest stone industries in German-speaking countries, specializing in marble and limestone processing and working internationally with well-known architects and sculptors.
founding
After Augsburg merchants had acquired the no longer profitable Kiefer ironworks in 1882 - which had belonged to the Zillertal lords since 1618 - the founding meeting of the Marble Industry Kiefer AG took place on April 1, 1883. During the early days of Germany and Austria's economy prospered, and in autumn 1887 Baron Friedrich v. Löwenstern the Freiherr v. Löwenstern's marble goods factory in Oberalm in Oberalm with the quarries on Untersberg ( Untersberg marble near Glanegg, Hofbruch , Neubruch and Veitlbruch ), which also included the stone quarries in Adnet ( Adnet marble ) near Hallein . Baron von Löwenstern had made the extraction of marble blocks of unprecedented size possible there by introducing new, rational technical mining methods, and discovered several new rock deposits and brought them into circulation. In addition to own and leased quarries, all types of marble available at the time were processed, such as those from Austria-Hungary, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, Greece, Sweden, England and Africa. During the Weimar period, Kiefer AG was a member of the Bavarian Marble Industry Association under the general manager Josef Kohlhepp, a captain and former border officer who had a special relationship with Kiefer AG, because it gave him a special relationship with the Bavarian King Ludwig III. helped over the Inn to Austria in the 1919 revolution. Until 1996 the marble works belonged to the marble industry Kiefer AG based in Kiefersfelden, which was bought by Heidelberger Zement AG. After that, the long-standing management under Johannes Eberle was able to undertake a management buy-out and together they founded a new company called Marmorindustrie Kiefer GmbH, based in Oberalm near Salzburg. Today the main shareholder and managing director of this company is Clemens Deisl.
Works and sculptors
Kiefer AG worked with well-known architects and sculptors, such as B. Fritz Schaper , Robert Baerwald , Ernst Herter , Ernst von Ihne , Joseph Uphues , Otto Lüer , Friedrich von Thiersch , Hugo Lederer , Otto March , Wolfgang Wallner and Edmund Hellmer , etc.
Kiefer AG, for example, helped create the Moltke memorial in Berlin Around 80 tons in weight and around 30 cubic meters in volume made of marble from Lasa , the sarcophagus of Imperial Chancellor Prince Otto von Bismarck made of Untersberg marble from the Hofbruch, the Turkish monument in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna made of Adnet marble from the Lienbach and Rot-Scheck quarries , and more the high altar of the parish church Heilig Kreuz in Kiefersfelden made of Untersberg marble including the tabernacle made of Lasa marble.
Awards
The company received awards at the trade exhibition in Munich in 1988, Nuremberg in 1896, Chicago in 1893, Paris 1900, Nuremberg in 1909 with distinction and in Dresden in 1906 a gold medal and certificate of honor for outstanding support for German cultural work . In 1904, Kiefer AG was granted the right by the Austrian emperor to display the eagle in a shield and coat of arms.
Economic development
As early as 1907, in addition to its headquarters in Kiefersfelden, the company also had branches in Oberalm , Untersberg , Adnet , Mareit , Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and employed 615 workers and 60 technicians and administrative staff. Corporate customers included industrialists and aristocrats, emperors and kings from Prussia, Bavaria, Austria and Romania. Kiefer AG was socially minded and ran a drawing school for its apprentices from the stonemason, carpentry and locksmith trades; its own kindergarten and a workers' library with 1,800 books.
When the demand for natural stone increased in 1933, the company also employed external workers, especially Italians, to process the orders. In the New Reich Chancellery of Adolf Hitler, the walls, chimneys, door and window frames of the study from the Lienbach quarry were covered. The tabletop of a map table more than five meters long was from the drip break. Adnet marble was in demand not only in Berlin, Nuremberg and Munich, but also in Austria, Linz , Breslau and in the buildings of Obersalzberg around Hitler's “ Berghof ”, for party buildings, administrations, town halls, barracks, motorway bridges etc.
For the reconstruction in Austria, for example for the cathedral, the Great Festival Hall and the Carolino Augusteum Museum in Salzburg or the State Opera and St. Stephan in Vienna and also in southern Germany, Adnet marble was required. After the war, director Ludwig Herbeck joined the industrial association Bau-Steine-Erden e. V. Bavaria at. Due to its convenient location near the border crossing from Germany to Austria, Marmorindustrie Kiefer AG has been well positioned since it was founded. In 1986 the company was bought by Heidelberger Zement AG and transferred to a Kiefer-Reul-Teich holding. After the Heidelberg company liquidated its natural stone division in 1996, Johannes Gebhart , the long-standing operations manager and now partner of Marmor Industrie Kiefer GmbH, together with his partner Johannes Eberle, re -founded the company Marmorindustrie Kiefer in Oberalm near Salzburg through a management buy-out .
Web links
- From the former brass works to the Kiefer marble industry in Oberalm (PDF; 113 kB)
- Website of the Marmorindustrie Kiefer GmbH
literature
- Memorandum on the development of the joint stock company for the marble industry Kiefer in Kiefersfelden in the first twenty-five years of its existence, 1883–1908 . Bruckmann, Munich undated (1908)
- Günther Wilhelm: From the former brass works to the pine marble industry in Oberalm . Department for Nature Conservation Fundamentals of the Salzburg State Government. Salzburg 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memorandum, p. 7 f. see literature.
- ^ Page on Friedrich v. Löwenstern on Salzburgwiki
- ↑ Chronicle - 60 years of the Bavarian Industrial Association of Stones and Earths eV, Munich 2005, p. 4 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
