Guntramsdorf roller engraving museum
The Museum Walzengravieranstalt Guntramsdorf is an industrial museum in Guntramsdorf in Lower Austria. The museum is set up in what was once the only roller engraving facility in Austria, which closed in 1986 and opened as a museum in 1989.
History of the company
Johann Endler, who immigrated from Warnsdorf in what is now the Czech Republic , bought himself into the engraving facility, which had already existed for a few years . The exact age of the institution is not known. Endler was a trained engraver and already ran an engraving company in Warnsdorf. He paid off the two German partners in the following two decades.
Customers of the engraving company were the neighboring printing factory as well as the numerous textile or paper factories. The production of metal foils or the beginning plastics industry also required these hand-engraved rollers. The manufacture of the printing rollers, which are up to two meters long, required high precision in all work steps, because even minor inaccuracies could destroy the work of several days. In the interwar period, 20 to 25 people were employed, supplying customers throughout Europe.
During the Second World War , Endler refused to convert the business to the manufacture of war materials and so he had to lease the business to a German company.
Johann Endler ran the business until the 1950s, when his son-in-law Eduard Keschmann, who had worked before the war, continued to run it.
However, new engraving techniques and large-scale, fashion-related textile prints led to a slow end of the company, as hand engraving was no longer competitive. The financial resources were too high for the conversion to photo engraving . The only thing left was the production of embossing rollers. The last engraver leased the business for the past ten years. In 1986 he had to close the company.
Operation as a museum
The whole operation was placed under monument protection and was opened in 1989 as a museum in the museum network adventure INDUSTRY. On the one hand, the museum shows the working conditions of old lathes and transmissions , on the other hand, the museum also offers artistic installations and performances .
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1. A to L. Guntramsdorf. Steinfeldgasse No. 2 factory owner's villa and No. 4 roller engraving institute. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 628.
Web links
- Guntramsdorf roller engraving museum
- Invitation to travel back in time
- A place of activity of the labor aristocracy Article in the "Wiener Zeitung" of July 8, 2010, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7.
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 42.4 ″ N , 16 ° 18 ′ 30.6 ″ E