PKZ Keramika Poštorná

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Church of the Archangel Michael in Ladná, 250 types of shaped stones from Unterthemenau were used for its construction
Nicholas Cathedral in Vienna
Elisabeth Church in Mistelbach
Roof of St. Stephen's Cathedral

The PKZ Keramika Poštorná as is an enterprise of the ceramic industry based in Poštorná ( Unterthemenau ), Czech Republic. It emerged from the Princely Liechtenstein clay and brick ware factory , whose colored clinker and roof tiles still shape the appearance of numerous buildings in South Moravia and Lower Austria.

history

In 1867, Prince Johann II had a brick oven built by K. Homp on the edge of the Theimwald . In 1869 and 1872 the clay ware factory Johann Fürst von Liechtenstein a . a. expanded to include an enamel oven and a four-chamber oven. In 1873 60 workers were employed. The production of drainage stones started in 1876. At the end of the 19th century, the product range of the Princely Liechtenstein clay and brick ware factory was extensively expanded; the princely building director Carl Weinbrenner used Unterthemenauer bricks for almost all of his buildings. In 1890 the company had 500 employees, who had a factory restoration, a bathhouse and company residential building at their disposal. In particular, the so-called salted clinker ( solené zvonivky ) was also used outside the Austro-Hungarian monarchy because of its quality. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Princely Liechtenstein'sche Thon- und Ziegelwaarenfabrik had grown to the largest company in the branch in Austria-Hungary and employed 13 civil servants, 14 engineers and between 700 and 800 workers. In 1907 the Rakonitz fireclay factory was purchased , making the company one of the market leaders in the pottery industry in Bohemia and Moravia. In addition to numerous buildings in the vicinity (Unterthemenau, Eisgrub , Lundenburg , Feldsberg , Rampersdorf , Katzelsdorf , Jedenspeigen and Mistelbach ), the themed bricks were also used in Vienna for the construction of the Russian Orthodox cathedral . Glazed roof tiles from Themaauer production are u. a. on the parish church Schottwien . After Unterthemenau became part of Czechoslovakia, Prince Johann II sold the company to Živnostenská banka in 1920 . The decline of the company began; the range of ceramics was reduced and the production of tiles was completely discontinued. The workforce shrank to 15 civil servants and around 250 workers. The only prestige object at this time was the construction of the Morava Palace in Brno . During the German occupation, both plants were placed under German administration; between 1944 and February 1945 there was a forced labor camp for Hungarian Jews. After the Second World War, the company was nationalized. For the reconstruction of St. Stephen's Cathedral , around 250,000 different colored beaver tails were burned in Poštorná between 1948 and 1950. In 1950 the plant in Rakovník was separated , and the Poštorná plant has been operating as Poštorenské keramické závody (PKZ) since then . In the years 1965 - 1966 brick production was discontinued; the new focus was shifted to stoneware for sewers and chemically resistant ceramics, where the PKZ advanced to become the market leader in the ČSSR. After the Velvet Revolution, the company was privatized into a stock corporation in 1990 . The collapse of the market led to a restructuring of the PKZ in 1998 and the conversion of the production from utility ceramics to technologically and qualitatively sophisticated earthenware products. At the same time, the Poštorná plant was spun off from PKZ as and converted into PKZ Keramika Poštorná as .

Buildings built with colored clinker bricks and roof tiles from Poštorná / Unterthemenau

  • Horticultural Directorate in Lednice (1886–1887)
  • Rosenkranzweg in Katzelsdorf (1888-1893)
  • Cemetery chapel in Lednice (1892)
  • Chapel of St. Rochus in Břeclav (1892)
  • Russian Orthodox St. Nicholas Cathedral in Vienna (1893–1899)
  • Chapel of the dead at the hospital in Valtice (1894)
  • Weather house in the city park of Mistelbach (1895)
  • Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Poštorná (1895–1898)
  • Hegerhaus in the Saugarten ( Kančí obora ) near Břeclav (1897)
  • Reception building of the Poštorná station (1901)
  • Lednice station reception building (1901)
  • Red School in Poštorná (1902–1906)
  • Evangelical Hospital Church of St. Elisabeth in Mistelbach (1904–1905)
  • Parish Church of St. Bartholomäus in Katzelsdorf (1905–1908)
  • Rectory in Poštorná (1909)
  • Church of the Archangel Michael in Ladná (1911–1914)
  • Morava Palace in Brno (1926–1929)
  • Roof tiles for St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna (1948–1950)

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