New cotton spinning mill in Bayreuth

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Preserved E-building of the new cotton spinning mill

The New Cotton Spinning Mill Bayreuth (NSB) was one of the three large spinning mills in Bayreuth .

The corporation was founded on January 19, 1889 by Carl Schüller and Otto Rose. The first director was Carl Schüller. Soon the New Cotton Spinning Mill was the city's largest employer.

The spinning mill set up an in-house allotment garden colony for the workers in the immediate vicinity of the factory buildings . Exemplary changing rooms and washrooms should contribute to educating the workforce in cleanliness and order. In December 1921 a chimney was erected, which at 97 m was the highest in Bavaria at the time. The number of spindles, the measure of the size of a spinning mill, was up to 157,000.

On January 13, 1941, Bayreuth was the target of a first bomb attack by the Royal Air Force . One or two multi-engine aircraft flew low over the city's three spinning mills between 3.17 a.m. and 4.56 a.m. Two flare bombs , three explosive bombs and around 33 incendiary bombs were dropped from a height of 200-300 m . The dust filter system and a battery light system of the new cotton spinning mill were destroyed or buried. People were not injured, although the fire fighting teams were repeatedly exposed to machine gun fire due to the lack of flak units . The damage to the new cotton spinning mill amounted to around 100,000 Reichsmarks , and operations could continue without interruption.

In June 1944, a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp was set up in the former twisting mill of the plant under the name “Physikalische Forschungsanstalt” . On the afternoon of April 11, 1945, the factory - and with it the twisting mill - was badly damaged by an American bomb attack. The concentration camp subcamp was closed in the following hours.

A first guest worker arrived from Pakistan in September 1956 . During weddings, the NSB employed up to 1,600 people (in 1960). At the beginning of 1991 she installed new machines and the machine park in the spinning mill became the most modern in Europe. However, they were only in operation for around six months in Bayreuth.

In September 1991 the remaining 180 employees waited in vain for their wages for the first time. The company was therefore on strike for the first time on October 7th. During a works meeting in the middle of that month, the preliminary settlement administrator announced the bankruptcy of the company. The last shift at the beginning of February 1992 consisted of only "a handful" of people.

On February 7, 1992 the company was shut down. On February 25, it became known that an entrepreneur from Lower Bavaria had bought up the claims of the creditor banks in the amount of 36.5 million DM. The devices with which 16 different yarns could be processed side by side were subsequently dismantled.

On January 19, 1994, the first parts of the area for the new testing and office of the Technical Inspection Association fell victim to the wrecking ball. In February 1996 the B-building was canceled. The E-building, which was completed in 1913 (today usually referred to as “C”), was the company's largest building. It is a listed building and, like the rest of the site, has been given a new use.

Web links

Commons : New cotton spinning mill Bayreuth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Neue Spinnerei Bayreuth at nsb-bayreuth.com, accessed on February 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Work and live in Bayreuth . Sutton, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-745-7 , p. 31 .
  3. ↑ Manufacturers and festival sponsors in: Nordbayerischer Kurier of August 17, 2017, p. 13.
  4. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth , p. 32.
  5. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth , p. 31.
  6. ↑ Bernd Mayer : Bayreuth in the twentieth century . Nordbayerischer Kurier, Bayreuth 1999, p. 52 .
  7. ^ New cotton spinning mill NBS, Bayreuth at sammleraktien-online.de, accessed on February 12, 2017
  8. ↑ Christoph Kuhl: Air protection and aerial warfare in Upper Franconia 1933-1945 . In: Historischer Verein für Oberfranken (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of Upper Franconia 88th volume . Ellwanger, 2008, ISSN  0066-6335 , p. 347 .
  9. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 76 u. 86.
  10. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth , p. 29.
  11. ↑ Bernd and Gerda Mayer: Working and living in Bayreuth , p. 35.
  12. ↑ a b Nordbayerischer Kurier dated February 9, 2017, p. 10.
  13. ↑ a b c Stephan-H. Fuchs: Bayreuth Chronicle 1992 . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3-8112-0793-8 , p. 46 f .
  14. ↑ Bernd Mayer, Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 172.
  15. ↑ 25 years ago: Demolition on NSB premises in: Nordbayerischer Kurier from 19./20. January 2019, p. 12.
  16. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Bayreuth in the twentieth century , p. 158.
  17. ^ Herbert Popp: Bayreuth - rediscovered . Ellwanger, Bayreuth 2007, ISBN 978-3-925361-60-9 , pp. 124 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 4 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 10"  E