Neckarwerke electricity supply
| Neckarwerke Elektrizitätsversorgungs-AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | August 1, 1899 |
| resolution | December 31, 1996 |
| Reason for dissolution | fusion |
| Seat | Esslingen am Neckar , Germany |
| Branch | power supply |
The Neckar works electricity supply AG , shortly Neckar works called (NW), was a power company based in Esslingen am Neckar .
history
The foundation stone of the company was laid on August 1, 1899 by the gas lamp manufacturer and co-founder of the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG Heinrich Mayer (1850–1911), who initiated the groundbreaking for a power center in the Neckar valley near Altbach . The plan was to build an overland plant based on a hydropower plant on the Neckar, which would provide all interested parties with electrical energy for lighting, power and heating purposes within a radius of 35 km. In order to be able to start delivering electricity before the power plant was completed, Mayer purchased a steam locomotive with 140 hp in 1899 . The first municipality to be supplied was not the municipality of Altbach, where the power plant was built, but, since May 1900, the later Stuttgart district of Obertürkheim . From August 1, 1900, a steam engine that Heinrich Mayer had bought at the Paris World Exhibition, in conjunction with an 800 kW three-phase generator, provided enough power to power the local networks in Hedelfingen, Hohenheim, Ebersbach, Altbach itself, and Berkheim in the course of 1900 , Deizisau, Nellingen, Ruit, Uhlbach and the city of Göppingen - with its own steam center - to be connected. In 1904 Esslingen was entered in the commercial register as the company's headquarters. In the same year, the Altbach-Deizisau power station went into regular operation with three water turbines and a steam engine with three-phase generators. In November 1905, the company supplied electricity to 37 towns with a total of 155,000 inhabitants.
The further expansion of the transmission network, the supply of electricity to other municipalities and the takeover and development of the Göppingen and Ludwigsburg electricity companies exceeded the financial possibilities of a partnership. The need for capital made it necessary to convert the company into a stock corporation in 1905. Heinrich Mayer took one of three seats on the supervisory board, his son Richard Mayer took over the commercial management, and engineer Richard Pilz the technical one. Until April 1908, the company founder remained involved, initially as a majority and then as a minority shareholder. By 1914, the company for electrical companies (Gesfürel) in Berlin, a holding company controlled by AEG, took over the entire share package. Pilz was the sole director of the company until 1938.
In 1930, Gesfürel controlled almost half of the shares, and the Neckar-Enzwerke (BNEW) district association founded in 1920, a municipal association for the municipalities supplied, took over a quarter of the shares. With this entry of public-law owners, the Neckarwerke changed from a private to a mixed-economy company. In 1935 the BNEW merged with a neighboring municipal association to form the Neckar Electricity Association (NEV). In 1942 the Gesfürel became part of the AEG, which was the main shareholder in Neckarwerke. Numerous capital increases since the company was founded, the purchase and construction of further local electricity plants, including in Bissingen, Böblingen, Metzingen, Urach and Kirchheim unter Teck, as well as the repeated increase in power plant capacity, especially in Altbach-Deizisau, transformed the NWE with its closed supply area north and east of Stuttgart the Neckar and Filstal valleys to one of the four (besides Badenwerk, EVS and TWS) large electricity companies in the south-west of Germany. After several changes in the shareholding ratio, NEV bought the AEG shares at the end of 1966 and thus the full ownership rights, which were virtually unaffected by some of the remaining small shareholders. The number of employees leveled off at around 1900 in the last few years before the merger; Neckarwerke AG's assets came to a good three billion DM in the end.
On January 1, 1997, the Neckarwerke merged with the Technical Works of the City of Stuttgart AG (TWS) in Stuttgart to form Neckarwerke Stuttgart AG (NWS), which was taken over by Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (EnBW) on October 1, 2003 .
swell
Economic archive Baden-Württemberg, inventory B 74 Neckarwerke Esslingen, scope 59 shelf meters, running from 1850–1997.
literature
- Marlis Prinzing: Electricity for the Neckarland. The history of the Neckarwerke from 1900 to 1945. (= contributions to the south-west German economic and social history. 25). St. Katharinen 2000, ISBN 3-89590-097-4 .
- Chronicle of Neckarwerke Elektrizitätsversorgungs-AG 1905–1955. created on the occasion of the 50th anniversary as an AG. 1955, OCLC 798972979 .
- Chronicle 1955–1990, ed. from the press and information department, editor Axel Pfrommer, Esslingen 1990.
- Eberhard Fredeke: Electricity for the Neckarland. History of Neckarwerke Elektrizitätsversorgungs-AG 1945–1997. Esslingen 1998, DNB 963215477 .
