NL Chrestenen
| NL Chriesteren Erfurt seed and plant breeding GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1867 |
| Seat | Erfurt |
| management | Frederick Niels Chriesteren |
| Number of employees | 120 |
| Branch | Plant breeding |
| Website | www.chrestensen.de |
NL Chriester is a seed and plant breeding company founded in Erfurt in 1867 by the Danish horticulturist Niels Lund Chrestenen . The company stands in the tradition of Erfurt horticulture. In downtown Erfurt, Chriester operates what it claims is the oldest Fleurop store in Germany.
history
In the early years, the company was primarily a “bouquet factory” that made arrangements from dried flowers . The company's headquarters were at Marktstrasse 16 in Erfurt. When the company published its first mail order catalog with “vegetable, field, grass, forest and flower seeds” in 1872, it also referred to itself as “flower, grass and moss dyeing”. At the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 the Chriesteren company received the "Great Columbus Medal". In the same year the company headquarters was moved to Marktstrasse 38. From 1883 on, Chrestenen owned acreage for seed production in the "Aue". In 1896 the company opened a sales office in London. Seed cultivation was relocated to the Borntal near Erfurt in 1906, where Chriester farms around 20 hectares to this day . In 1908 he was one of the founders of Fleurop .
In 1953 the managing directors were arrested and the company was placed under trust administration from February to June . In 1959 the state took a share in the company, and in 1977 it was completely nationalized under the name of the mail order company seeds and plants of the VEB Erfurter Blumensamen. Niels Chriesteren (1907–1990) and his two sons were able to remain in leading positions.
The company was re- privatized in 1990 . Since 1994, the company has been located in a newly built warehouse and logistics center in the Borntal. Today the company has around 120 employees and sells over 1,000 different plant species and varieties worldwide, including more than 200 of its own varieties.
swell
- ↑ Kathrin Schanze, Susanne Kay: Gardens in Erfurt . René Burckhardt Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-937981-13-6
literature
- Wolf-Dieter Blüthner: The company NL Chrifthen . In: Martin Baumann / Steffen Raßloff (eds.): City of flowers Erfurt. Waid - Horticulture - iga / egapark. Erfurt 2011 ( publications of the association for the history and archeology of Erfurt . Vol. 8). Pp. 177-202. ISBN 978-3-86680-812-6 .
- Steffen Raßloff: Out into the world. The myth of the city of flowers (6): the horticultural company Chriester . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from April 28, 2007.
- 1867 - 2007 140 years of NL Chriesteren, Erfurt - At the cradle of beautiful gardens! Self-published in Erfurt 2007