New Augsburg calico factory
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | January 12, 1885 |
| resolution | Late June 1996 |
| Seat | Augsburg , Germany |
| Number of employees | last around 500 (1996) |
| Branch | Textile industry |
The Neue Augsburger Kattunfabrik ( NAK for short ) was a German textile printing company based in Augsburg .
history
The company was founded in 1885 as a stock corporation and developed from the traditional calico printing company Schöppler & Hartmann. In the factory, fabrics made of cotton and rayon, rayon and synthetic materials for clothes of all kinds were printed and exported to all continents. In 1938 the shares of the Jewish textile manufacturers Arnold and Kahn were “Aryanized” and their “ spinning and weaving mills at Sparrenlech Kahn & Arnold ” were merged with the NAK. After the Second World War, operations in the destroyed halls were quickly resumed and in 1950 there were around 950 workers and employees in the company. The number of employees could be increased until the 1970s (around 1200) until the decline of the textile industry in Augsburg began. Despite attempts at renovation, the losses could not be compensated, so that the factory had to be closed in 1996. The production halls on the former factory premises at Vogeltor were demolished in 1999. Today the City-Galerie (shopping center with multiplex cinema) is located here.
The sample books and sample drawings that have been collected by the company over a long period of time have been preserved to this day . Distinguished as a national cultural asset, they represent a valuable testimony to textile production and are exhibited in the Textile Museum.
Web links
- Information about the new Augsburg calico factory
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the New Augsburger Kattunfabrik in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 56 ″ N , 10 ° 54 ′ 20 ″ E