Dillingen paper mill
The Dillingen paper mill was a paper mill in Dillingen in Saarland that existed from 1757 to 1864 .
18th century
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The Metz Baron Charles Francouis Dieudonné de Tailfumyr, Seigneur de Cussigny received permission from King Stanislaus of Poland to build a paper mill and a glassworks in Dillingen in 1755 . Tailfumyr built the paper mill in 1757 after the Dillinger Hütte was sold . The baptized Jew also sponsored the construction of the Jewish cemetery .
He expanded the mill, which was made up of three handmade paper from 1757 to 1759 , to include a printer. After moderate success, he sold the mill in 1762 to the Saarlouis merchant Michel Leistenschneider, under whose expertise the mill became widely known. The sale took place as far as the distant Königsberg and Cracow . Successful exhibitions and medals earned the mill recognition. The Codex Egberti was shot through with Dillinger paper .
The war years after 1790 affected the mill operations. Before the arrival of the Austrian troops in 1792, Michel Leistenschneider's son Jakob brought the mill to Saarlouis fortress. What the Austrians couldn't take with them, they smashed. The Leistenschneider family did not resume business and emigrated to France.
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19th century
In 1803 Messrs. Souty, Bemat and Co. bought the mill. From these, in turn, Jean Louis Piette , who came from an old papermaking family and immigrated from Vielsalm , bought the mill in 1811. Although he ran the business in a patriarchal manner, he tried to shape the social conditions. For example, he introduced health insurance funds, savings and support funds. The workers paid a silver groschen per thaler into the relief fund; the company contributed half of this amount. Jean Louis Piette transferred more and more tasks to his sons Louis Piette and Prosper Joseph Maria Piette . Louis took over the commercial part, Prosper worked as a technician and inventor. They led the company to an upswing, so that in 1826 it was operated with 30 people and three vats. They produced packaging, printing and writing paper as well as cardboard . Prosper further developed the production process, for example by replacing the expensive rags with other raw materials. 160 different types of straw paper were developed in a separate test department. In 1837 a patent was granted for a machine for making cardboard. Sales to Cologne took place with three of its own ships. The commemorative coin received in 1838 by the Association for the Promotion of Industry and Industry in Prussia and the gold medal presented at the Mainz industrial exhibition in 1842, as well as the fourth class eagle order awarded by the King of Prussia, documented their success.
After the company had been enlarged several times, the transition to machine production took place around 1838. This was followed by the purchase of two machines for the production of “paper without end” and the conversion to a stock corporation with 27 shareholders and 85 capital shares. The capital consisted of 170,000 Reichstalers. The steam power came with a machine of 106 hp. Industry on the Saar was very innovative during this time. The paper industry used steam engines before the iron, ceramics and glass industries, which made them leaders in Europe. 300 workers and ten civil servants were employed. A patent for a knot cleaning machine was granted by the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Public Works in 1848. A decline began in the middle of the 19th century, which led to the sale of the mill to J. Weidner & Co. The Piettes migrated.
The water from the Prims , which was needed by both the Dillinger Hütte and the paper mill, gave rise to a dispute between the two companies over water rights in 1860. The mill owners accused the hut of spoiling the water that is essential for a paper mill. In 1864 the smelter bought the mill, which was being liquidated, and ceased operations. 42 of the 60 workers were taken over by the hut. The management building was now used as a sleeping quarters for the ironworkers. During the Franco-Prussian War , the former mill buildings served as a hospital. The director's house now lived in the director's house, including Paul Desfossez, after the street in front of the director's house is named. Today the building is used as a day care center for the Dillinger Hütte.
literature
- Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968, p. 432-442 .
Individual evidence
- ^ AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (ed.): "325 Years of Dillinger Hütte", volume "Menschen", Dillingen 2010, p. 186.
- ^ Piette, L .: About paper manufacture by means of rag surrogates in France. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 150, 1858, pp. 310-313.
- ^ Piette, L .: About the manufacture of straw paper. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 64, 1837, pp. 358-372.
- ↑ Association for the promotion of industry: meeting reports of the association for the promotion of industry . 1836, p. 230-IA2 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Piette, L .: Description of a machine for manufacturing the cardboard cover. In: Polytechnisches Journal . 90, 1843, pp. 101-104.
- ↑ General organ for trade and commerce and related items . Bachem, 1837, p. 96 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Ralf Banken: The industrialization of the Saar region 1815-1914 . Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-515-07324-8 , pp. 314 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ www.openstreetmap.org
- ↑ www.dillinger.de ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
