Reichraming brass factory
The Reichraming brass factory in Reichraming was a prime example of Austrian economic history . It was one of the oldest companies in the metalworking industry in the Habsburg hereditary lands and existed from 1569 to 1928.
history
The factory was founded as a brass smelting works by Werner Manstein and Hans Hirsch in Ennstal, Upper Austria. The development of the iron and steel works in the 16th and 17th centuries was shaped by several families of iron merchants, the so-called "Black Counts". From 1741/43 the Seitenstetten Abbey took over the company and ran it until the middle of the 19th century.
From 1842, the director of the Danube Steamship Company and Viennese entrepreneur Karl Ferdinand Klein took over the company and led it with his sons Carl and Wilhelm to a medium-sized factory with over a hundred workers.
In the last phase from 1896 to 1928, the Reichraming brass factory was owned by Anton and Ludwig Sommer, two brothers of a Jewish hop merchant family from Bohemia.
The workers remained rather faceless until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only then did they step into the limelight with clubs and the strikes of 1908 and 1911. The loss of sales markets after the First World War, together with other factors such as the end of the brass cartel, the aging of the workers, a lack of innovation, etc., was the reason for the end of the factory on May 5, 1928.
Owners list
The brass works or the Reichraming brass factory
Year of owner or owner
- 1569 - 1593 Wernhard / Bernhard / Werner Manstein
- 1593 - 1615 Leonhard Manstein
- 1615 - 1623 Hans Köberer
- 1623 - 1628 iron company, plant closed
- 1628 - 1651 Hans Egger von Marbach
- 1651 - 1656 Mathias / Matthäus Rieser von Riesenfels
- 1656 - 1704 Franz Matthäus Rieser von Riesenfels
- 1704 - 1705 Franz Philipp Rieser von Riesenfels
- 1705 - 1706 copper and brass company
- 1706 -? Franz Leopold von Ziernfeld
- ? -? New copper company
- 1730 -? Franz Joseph Pold (copper company?)
- ? - 1741 copper company
- 1741 - 1743 copper company, managed by Abbot Paul de Vitsch
- 1743 - 1842 Seitenstetten Abbey
- 1842 - 1868 Karl Ferdinand Klein
- 1868 - 1889 Carl Klein
- 1889 - 1892 Wilhelm Klein
- 1892 - 1896 plant shut down
- 1896 - 1927 Anton and Ludwig Sommer
- 1927 - 1928 Anton Sommer, DI Josef Sommer, Dr. Franz Popper
literature
- Josef Aschauer: The brass factory in Reichraming. A contribution to Upper Austrian economic history . In: Oberösterreichische Heimatblätter 7 (1953) 3-4, pp. 313–326, online (PDF; 1.8 MB) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- Adolf Brunnthaler: Reichraming , with the house chronicle by Helmut Begsteiger, Verlag Weishaupt, Gnas 2000
- Adolf Brunnthaler: The brass factory Reichraming , dissertation at the Institute for Economic and Social History of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2005