Upper Austrian construction company

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The Upper Austrian Construction Company was a construction company founded in Linz in 1871 , which was merged with the construction company Pirkl & Eysert to form the United Construction Company Pirkl & Eysert in 1928 . The company was liquidated in 1934, but continued to perform before and after the war. In 1972 the company was re-established, which no longer exists today.

history

Until the founding period, individual master builders and masons were predominant in Linz. It was not until the Upper Austrian Construction Company was founded in 1871 as a stock corporation and the first large construction company in Upper Austria that the construction industry developed into the construction industry. The establishment of the company was carried out by the large-scale industry in Linz. Major shareholders were the Industrie- und Commerzial-Bank, Allgemeine Sparkasse, Grillmayr & Sons and Löwenfeld & Hofmann. The OÖ Baugesellschaft soon became the leader in the province of Upper Austria, despite the fact that some construction companies from Vienna had branches in Linz.

Ignaz Scheck was the head of the Upper Austrian construction company for many years from 1873 until his death in 1903, who, alongside Michael Lettmayr and Gustav Steinberger , designed numerous public and private buildings in Upper Austria. So were of the Upper Austria building company z. B. the Francisco Carolinum , the management of the Allgemeine Sparkasse Linz Promenade, the Petrinum Linz and the AKh Linz ; later the Steyrer Waffenfabrik and the Linz locomotive factory Krauss & Comp. built.

The Upper Austrian construction company had its own brickworks in Linz (Froschberg, today Linz Stadium ).

The company was also closely linked to the cement industry. The art mill owner Adolf Hofmann and Emil Dierzer von Traunthal , owner of the Kirchdorfer cement works, were on the board of directors of the construction company. After 1921 the order situation gradually worsened and in 1928 the company finally merged with the construction company Pirkl & Eysert , with whom it had been cooperating for a long time on larger orders.

Pirkl & Eysert

The construction company Pirkl & Eysert was founded in 1919 by the engineers Josef Pirkl and Georg Eysert in Linz. It was mainly active in factory, railway and bridge construction.

United construction company Pirkl & Eysert

In 1928 the Upper Austrian Construction Company and Pirkl & Eysert merged to form the United Construction Company Pirkl & Eysert . In addition to the headquarters in Linz, there were branches in Steyr and Salzburg . There were construction projects such. B. the Kanzelbahn at Ossiacher See or the Diesterwegschule in Linz built.

The company was liquidated in 1934 and deleted in 1937, but it continued to act as a construction manager both before and after World War II, e.g. B. 1950/52 during the establishment of the Hauserhof (official building of the Upper Austrian state government in Linz). In 1972 the company was re-established, which was later dissolved.

Realizations (selection)

Oö. Construction company
United construction company Pirkl & Eysert

literature

  • Bernd Kreuzer: A branch of the economy that is often overlooked: the Upper Austrian construction industry in the interwar period. in Upper Austria 1918–1938. Volume II. , Upper Austrian Provincial Archives, Linz 2015. ISBN 978-3-902801-22-7 . ( digital )