Sewing machine parts AG

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The sewing machine parts AG (also sewing machine parts AG, sewing matag, founded in 1918) was the largest employer in today's city of Radebeul in 1935 . At that time, the Kötzschenbrodaer factory on Kötitzer Strasse 17-23 had around 1000 employees. Another 200 worked in the Dresden factory.

Typewriter parts production at G. Schmidt (around 1913)

The sewing machine parts AG was created through the merger of the companies Würker & Knirsch and G. Schmidt .

G. Schmidt

The mechanic Gustav Schmidt founded a company for the manufacture of sewing machine boats in Dresden in 1868. In 1896 the G. Schmidt company acquired the area of ​​the Höppner brickworks in Kötzschenbroda , whereupon the company headquarters of the Schiffchenfabrik was relocated there by its owner Julius Scheffler in 1897. The newly constructed factory buildings could be used from 1898. About 300 modern machine tools were installed there as well as two friction presses . In addition to the manufacture of sewing machine shuttles, the “world-famous specialist company” specialized in the manufacture of “components for all systems of household, commercial and industrial sewing machines on the market”. Within a decade, the company developed into what was at times the largest industrial operation in the Lößnitz towns .

Würker & Knirsch

Share over 1000 marks in Würker & Knirsch AG from October 1, 1912

Würker & Knirsch AG was founded in Dresden in 1912 . Sewing machine boats were also manufactured on Barbarastraße 43 in Pieschen .

After the merger

Share of over 1,000 marks in the sewing machine parts company from July 1, 1920

The sewing machine parts company Dresden , which was merged in 1918 from Würker & Knirsch and G. Schmidt , was listed on the stock exchange in Dresden and later in Leipzig . The abbreviation sewing tag GS served as a trademark . The company's production was mainly exported.

After forced administration and dismantling in 1945, a new beginning followed in 1946 with initially 106 employees.

In 1953 the company headquarters were relocated to Aachen . In 1955 this part of the company was renamed Nämatag Sewing Machine Parts GmbH, Aachen.

The East German part concentrated as Plant 2 of the Dresden sewing machine parts works (colloquially "Schiffchenfabrik", "Schiffelbude") on parts for industrial sewing machines. This part was shut down by the Treuhandanstalt in 1990; the buildings in Radebeul-Kötzschenbroda fell into disrepair. It was planned to build apartments on the 7000 square meter area through conversion . In 2007, the decision was made to draw up a project-related development plan for the "conversion of the former sewing machine factory". The project could not be carried out due to the fact that the old building was deteriorating. In 2012 the area was therefore sold on and then cleared by the new owner. This also included blowing up the associated industrial chimney on January 18, 2013. In 2014, the planned seven detached apartment buildings will be ready. The planning decision has since been revoked, as there is no longer any old industrial architecture to be converted at that point.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 139 f .
  • Peter Redlich: Ruins on Fabrikstrasse should fall, Sächsische Zeitung, Radebeuler Edition, p. 17, from March 8, 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 139 f .
  2. ↑ Radebeuler Official Journal, 01/2008, p. 12 (with the representation of the area).
  3. ↑ Radebeuler Official Journal, 01/2014, p. 11.