Mechanical engineering institute Übigau
The mechanical engineering company Übigau , full name Dresdener Actien-Maschinenbau-Verein, Maschinenbau-Anstalt Uebigau , was an early industrial mechanical engineering company and shipyard in what is now the Dresden district of Übigau . She is the manufacturer of the Saxonia , the first functional steam locomotive built in Germany, as well as the Queen Maria , which is considered to be the first Saxon passenger steamship .
history
The Dresden Actien-Maschinenbau-Verein founded in June 1836 founded the “Maschinenbau-Anstalt Uebigau” in the same year and opened it on January 1, 1837. The professor at the Royal Technical Educational Institute in Dresden and engineering scientist Johann Andreas Schubert ( 1808–1870), who subsequently acted as technical director and chairman of the company's board of directors. Christian Johann Heinrich Schmidt , who subsequently became Saxony's first train driver, was one of the company's employees . The location of the mechanical engineering institute was Übigau Castle and the area immediately north of it (in the direction of Altübigau). The castle passed into the possession of the mechanical engineering company in 1836, which used it to house its administration offices and design rooms. The production facilities were adjacent to the north.
The mechanical engineering institute was founded in order to realize some of Schubert's projects. One of them was the construction of the first German steam locomotive, the Saxonia , for the Leipzig-Dresden Railway . In 1837 Schubert also designed the drive for Queen Maria , one of the first Upper Elbe steamships, in Übigau. In April 1838, however, he left the company again to devote himself to his chair. Since there was neither an official construction contract nor sufficient technical experience, the production of the Saxonia was associated with a high risk for the company. The economic situation of the mechanical engineering company remained tense in the period that followed, mainly due to a lack of orders. On June 15, 1841, it was decided to liquidate the machine factory. The Dresden Actien-Maschinenbau-Verein offered them for private sale in July 1841.
Independently of it, the Übigau shipyard was built almost at the same location decades later in the 1870s and the Übigau steam boiler factory (later VEB Dampfkesselbau) in the 1930s.
Products
The main products of the mechanical engineering company were steam engines of all kinds, which were to be used in stationary operation as well as on ships and locomotives, as well as steam boilers and spinning machines and agricultural machines. From April 1837, the company installed the boilers and the low-pressure steam engines supplied from Berlin in the two ships Queen Maria and Prince Albert built on the banks of the Elbe in Johannstadt . In addition, the Saxonia, which was delivered in 1838, and the Phoenix, which was delivered on April 12, 1840, another locomotive were built in Übigau , which, however, was not taken over by the Leipzig-Dresden Railway. After that, the plant no longer built complete locomotives, only boilers. For the machine director Christian Friedrich Brendel , who was responsible for the decision on the use of machines in the entire Saxon mining and metallurgical industry, the required mining machines were planned and constructed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e albert-gieseler.de: Dresden Actien-Maschinenbau-Verein, Maschinenbau-Anstalt Uebigau
- ↑ a b dresden-uebigau.de: mechanical engineering institute Übigau
- ↑ a b archiv.sachsen.de: Maschinenbauanstalt Übigau ( 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.
- ^ Locomotive "Phönix" , in the United Ofner-Pester Zeitung of April 30, 1840, ÖNB.
- ^ Locomotive "Phönix" in the Wiener Zeitung of April 30, 1840, ÖNB.
