Obstland AG

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Obstland Dürrweitzschen AG

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legal form Corporation
founding December 20, 1990
Seat Grimma - Dürrweitzschen
management Jan Kalbitz, Mathias Möbius (Board of Directors)
Number of employees 359 (annual average 2016)
sales 68 million EUR (2016)
Branch Agriculture, food industry
Website www.obstland.de , www.sachsenobst.de

The fruit Dürrweitzschen AG is a primarily agricultural-based conglomerate in Saxony. The central business area is ecologically oriented and organic fruit growing as well as the processing and marketing of the fresh and liquid fruit produced here. In addition to the six agricultural subsidiaries (including four regular and one organic fruit growing and one arable, one fruit marketing and one fruit processing) subsidiaries, the group also includes two craft businesses and a housing management company. The company has received several awards for its sustainable development work in the Grand Prize for SMEs .

society

Obstland Dürrweitzschen AG was created in 1990 when the cooperative property was re-privatized from LPG fruit production Dürrweitzschen. The 400,000 registered shares with restricted transferability (share capital 10.4 million euros) are in free float , mainly with the former LPG members. The AG is not listed .

Company data (as of December 31, 2016)

The group's total assets were EUR 60.1 million, and annual sales EUR 66.5 million. The group employed 359 people on the reporting date.

Fruit growing

The fruit is grown on approx. 1,500 hectares in the Saxon hill country ( Grimma / Döbeln / Oschatz area ). An average of 40,000 tons of fruit are produced each year, mainly apples (85%), sour cherries (5%), pears (5%) and strawberries (2%), but also sweet cherries, currants, raspberries and plums as well as special crops since 2011 Hazelnuts and since 2014 goji berries.

The fruit-growing tradition goes back to the 12th century, when nuns and monks of the Cistercian order laid out monastery gardens in the monasteries [Buch Monastery, Sornzig Monastery, Nimbschen Monastery, Altzella Monastery] and planted the first fruit trees in them. Later it was the Saxon electors who promoted the planting of fruit trees by state decree. During this time, not only were a particularly large number of stone and pome trees planted on the edges of the Saxon state roads, but also those willing to marry in Saxony were encouraged to plant four each, and later even six fruit trees.

The Leisniger tier fruit growing went down in the history of fruit growing as the first intensification attempt to harvest the fruits of several types of fruit in one and the same area in model gardens. In the same year, plant communities of soil cultures , shrubs and tall trees were planted in a sophisticated system of mixed cultures .

At the beginning of the 1970s, agriculture around Dürrweitzschen, Ablaß, Sornzig and Leisnig was converted to intensive fruit growing and the entire area was declared one of the five main fruit growing areas of the GDR (Havelobst, Saaleobst, Elbeobst, Fahner Obst, Sachsenobst) under the name "Sachsenobst" and expanded.

marketing

Most of the fruits grown and ripened in the "fruit country in the middle of Saxony" are marketed under the umbrella product brand "Sachsenobst" via Sachsenobst Vermarktungsgesellschaft mbH and in four farm-gate sales outlets. A comparatively small part of the "fruits from the fruit country" is refined in the Kelterei Sachsenobst GmbH at Döbeln into fruit juices and nectars as well as fruit wines (e.g. the traditional "deer blood").

further activities

In addition to the eight companies in the core business area, the Obstland Group includes two craft businesses and a service provider:

  • Mildensteiner Baugilde GmbH Leisnig, head office Grimma - Dürrweitzschen
  • Elektro GmbH Mutzschen
  • Housing and management company ltd. Ablaß, seat Grimma - Dürrweitzschen

The latter currently manages more than 620 apartments in Dürrweitzschen, Sornzig, Ablaß and Leisnig with over 38,000 m² of living space, 392 of which belong to Obstland AG.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Patzelt Foundation: Laudation "Great price for medium-sized companies". Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Konrad Keipert: Soft fruit - Cultivated types and wild fruits . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1981 ( ISBN 3-8001-5517-6 ).

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