Machine nail factory (Graz)
The former machine nail factory (also called Schafzahl-Greinitz-Werk ) is a 19th century industrial building in the Geidorf district of the Styrian capital Graz . Today it houses a kindergarten.
history
The entrepreneur Franz Xaver Schafzahl, already in possession of a factory license since 1803, built a building for nail manufacture in the area of the goldsmith's hammer in 1813 . As the inventor of a new, so-called “nail forging and pressing machine” for the manufacture of cut nails, which was previously unknown in Austria, he received an exclusive production privilege in 1815. Due to financial difficulties, however, he had to sell this factory to Josef Vogel and Franz Seraphin Sartory in 1817. As early as 1821, the new owners had to auction the building. The buyer, Karl Greinitz, an iron merchant from Graz, who was to run the factory for over 30 years, was again granted patent privileges in nail manufacture in 1823 and 1825. Three years before production was shut down in 1857, the factory employed 30 people. In 1872 the new tenant Karl Weitzer converted the building into a cloth factory, which in 1889 employed 47 people. The building was rededicated in function in 1900, when Karl Weitzer the Younger set up a steam laundry and in 1920 an additional joinery. In the post-war period, the building served as a location for various companies. After standing empty for years, it has housed a Waldorf kindergarten since 1985 .
architecture
The core of the structure goes back to the founding of the nail factory in 1813. The middle wing, in which the factory management was presumably housed, is dominated on the street side by a main facade in the late classicist style, which has colossal Tuscan columns and a metope frieze. It was built around 1828 by order of the owner Karl Greinitz and probably by the architect Franz Xaver Aichinger (who also created the gatekeeper house at the castle gate).
The nail factory is a plastered brick building with a granite base and limestone pillars and pillars. The roof is a wooden structure covered with Viennese bags .
Literature and Sources
- Manfred Wehdorn; Ute Georgeacopol-Winischhofer: Monuments of technology and industry in Austria / Bd. 2, Styria, Carinthia / with photos by Elfriede Mejchar. H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne 1991, ISBN 3205052021 , p. 40f
- Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio Graz. 2nd Edition. Berger, Horn / Vienna 1979, ISBN 978-3-85028-401-1 , p. 143.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia - Entry: Schafzahl, Franz Xaver, p. 753
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 15 ° 25 ′ 49.5 ″ E