O. Lindholm

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Lindholm harmonium
Lettering with an imprint of the medal of the "District Exhibition for Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Borna 1896", as well as " Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung Dresden MCMVI "

O. Lindholm , also called Harmoniumfabrik Lindholm and Harmoniumfabrik Olof Lindholm , was a former harmonium - and later harpsichord manufacturer. The location of the company founded in the 19th century in the city of Borna near Leipzig in Saxony was a factory building influenced by Art Nouveau at Breite Straße 7-9 .

history

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The name of the harmonium factory goes back to the company founder of the same name: The Swede Olof Lindholm (* 1866 in Trönö near Söderhamn ; † 1949 in Borna ) learned to build harmonies from Johan Petter Nyström in the Swedish city of Karlstad . In 1892, the entrepreneur Theodor Mannborg, who worked in Borna, managed to win Lindholm as an employee for his Borna suction wind harmonium company in order to promote production there. After the man Borger company was moved about two years later to Leipzig, located Lindholm made on July 1, 1894 self-employed: For the production of its own harmonies he rented the rooms and the engine of the former steam - Lohmühle Jacob in Broad Street 7 at about whose Entrance soon the company name O. Lindholm was attached.

On May 1, 1911, the piano and harmonium maker Gustav Weischet, who came from the Ruhr area, took over the Lindholm factory while retaining the established name. Most of the company's products were exported overseas.

Olof Lindholm himself stayed in Borna, where he lived until his death in 1949 in what was then Stofenstraße 20 , today's Sachsenallee.

In 1972 Joachim Weischet was expropriated and the Lindholm company was transferred to a state-owned company . At the same time, the production for the construction of harpsichords was changed.

Web links

Commons : Lindholm Harmoniumfabrik  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Lindholm Harmoniumfabrik on the website borna.de [ undated , 2014?], Last accessed on July 9, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Sandra Zydek:  Lindholm. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, subject part, volume 5 (Kassel - Meiningen). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7618-1106-3  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)

Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 29 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 3.5 ″  E