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MOLDAN Baustoffe GmbH & Co KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 2000 (first mentioned in 1613)
Seat Kuchl , Austria
management Josef Eder jun., Managing director
Number of employees approx. 180 (2006)
sales approx. 124 million EUR (2006)
Branch Building material manufacturer
Website www.moldan-baustoffe.at

The MOLDAN Materials GmbH & Co KG is a Austrian manufacturer of building materials in Kuchl near Hallein, Salzburg. The mining area is the largest Austrian gypsum deposit.

history

The gypsum deposit on Schwarzerberg has been mentioned in a document since 1613, a Georg Streitfelder supplied the prince-archbishop's court buildings.

In 1794, Mathias Struber received permission "to build a mill on a high princely Frey am Kertererbach in Strubau because of the long and difficult transport conditions ." It was used to grind plaster of paris as well as grain.

A family member as a partner, Christian Moldan, first appeared in 1835, on August 7, 1853, he bought the entire property of the plant and deposit. The Kuchl – Scheffau area was one of the most important in the Northern Alps at the time; the total production of gypsum here was around 700,000 quintals around 1870. In 1916 Josef and Christian Moldan founded the First Salzburg Gypsum Works Company from the mill .

In 1955 Karl-Eberhard Moldan took over the company as managing partner and expanded it further. From 1971 onwards, in addition to the traditional extraction of raw gypsum as a raw material basis, gypsum, gypsum products and other building materials were also produced in the factory. In 1972, Heidelberger Zement  AG took over large shares of the company and, through this substantial injection of capital, helped the company to become a large company in Austria.

In 2000 HeidelbergCement brought together all dry mortar producers in its group of companies in the maxit group . Since January 1st 2001 the name was Moldan-maxit Austria . With the takeover of the maxit group in 2007, the company also became part of the French Compagnie de Saint-Gobain group. In 2009 the company name was changed back to MOLDAN Baustoffe  GmbH & Co KG.

In 2010 it was taken over by the Salzburger Sand und Kieswerke  (SSK).

Company premises and gypsum mine

The plant (gypsum works) is located near Strubau in Kellau , a village in the Kuchl municipality, in the valley of the Kertererbach , a side valley of the Salzach north of the Lammer .

The mining area, the Grubbach – Moosegg gypsum mine , in the area of ​​the places Grubach (municipality of Sankt Koloman ) and Voregg-Moosegg ( municipality of Scheffau ), is 900 m above sea level, on one of the Schwarzerberg  ( 1584  m above sea level , a foothill of the Tennengebirge) ) upstream Riedl.

The Riedl is partly made entirely of gypsum and is the largest Austrian deposit. In the Saulochbruch there are blocks of diabase and serpentine in the gypsum , in the northern boiler breach a massive anhydrite gypsum body.
The occurrence that emerges in the area of ​​the fault zone Gosau Basin - Abtenau Basin here as cover floe (Weitenauer Unterkreidemulde) , Haselgebirge , which was pushed onto the Roßfeld layers , belongs to the Hallstatt cover floe . The whole system belongs to the Tirolikum of the Osterhorn group .

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Profile through the Hallstatt cover block east of Kuchl:
 Haselgebirge  Obere / Untere Roßfeldschichten  limestone  recent sediments

literature

  • Wilhelm Günther: From "Ybsbrockern" and "Ybssamblern" to the First Salzburg Gypsum Works Society Christian Moldan KG. History of gypsum mining, gypsum processing and gypsum trade in the Salzburg area. In: Communications from the Salzburg Society for Regional Studies. 127, 1987.
  • K. Lauth: 200 years of the trade - 100 years of Moldan plaster. Salzburg 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History quote , www.moldan-baustoffe.at
  2. ^ Heinz Dopsch , Hans Spatzenegger, Oswald Reiche: History of Salzburg: City and Country. Volume 2, 1991, p. 2623.
  3. ↑ Of the twelve mines that produced more than 600,000 t of gypsum and around 100,000 t of anhydrite in 1975, Moosegg is the most important, followed by the Viennese near Grundlsee (Styria) and near Puchberg am Schneeberg (Lower Austria), both today from Rigips Austria . Information in R. Oberhauser, FK Bauer: The geological structure of Austria . 1980, p. 540.
  4. ↑ Benno Plöchinger: The Hallstätter decking plaice east of Kuchl / Salzburg and its Roßfeldschichten underlay extending into the Aptia. In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute. 1968, pp. 80-86 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 55 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 5 ″  E