Peters Tire Renova
The Peters Pneu Renova KG was the largest company for tire retreading in Europe, based in Bad Homburg . The name Peters-Pneu-Kreuzung still reminds of the company today .
History of the company
In 1930 the Frankfurt tire manufacturer Peters Union AG was taken over by Continental Gummiwerke AG . The previous director of Peters Union AG, Heinrich Peter (1882–1965), his nephew Christian Engelmann (1898–1989) and his son-in-law, Emil Pauly, then founded Peters Pneu Renova KG in 1927/28 as a provider of tire retreading.
The company used the former Henry Pauly rusk factory in Saalburgstrasse 151–159 in Bad Homburg ( Dornholzhausen district ) as a company building. The United Friedrichsdorfer Zwiebackwerke Henry and JF Pauly will only use the company premises in Kirdorfer Bachstraße in future. The building on Saalburgstrasse was completely rebuilt for this purpose. The factory's 65 m high chimney was visible from afar.
The company grew rapidly with increasing motorization. When 12 skilled workers were taken over from the Frankfurt company when it was founded, in 1938 the company already had 220 employees. After the end of the war in 1945, only 30 workers were employed in the plant. The economic miracle brought about a strong expansion: in 1952 400 people were employed, in 1956 already 600 and 1959 already 700 people. The plant reached its peak in 1971 with 1,000 employees. This made the company the second largest industrial company in Bad Homburg. In 1957, almost 2,000 car tires were refurbished every day in three shifts. The plant alone consumed twelve tons of coal a day. In 1971 the daily production had grown to 6,000 tires.
The expansion of the factory went hand in hand with the expansion. In the end, the entire area between Hohemarkstrasse, Kälberstücksweg, Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Strasse and Saalburgstrasse was built on. In 1956 the neighboring "Haus Elim", a housekeeping and cooking school, was acquired by the Marburg Blue Sisters and used as an administration building.
On June 20, 1973, the company filed a settlement at the Bad Homburg district court vd Höhe . The cause was a drop in prices for new tires, which led to a sharp drop in sales. The company's sales negotiations failed and bankruptcy proceedings had to be filed on June 28th.
The machine park was bought by the Italian company Marangoni Meccanica from Rovereto . Their plan to set up a successor company with 300 skilled workers in neighboring Wehrheim failed because the Wehrheim municipal council refused to settle on September 20, 1973 because of the associated environmental pollution.
The 50,000 m² site was put up for foreclosure on September 28, 1978 with an estimated value of DM 12.6 million. The only bidder, Fresenius , only offered DM 4.1 million and did not win. It was not until 1980 that the site was sold to Eli Lilly and Company . On June 12, 1982 the factory's 65 m high chimney was blown up. By 1988, Eli Lilly's German headquarters and the Bad Homburg office park as well as apartment buildings were built on the site . After Eli Lilly moved to a new office complex, the office buildings were demolished in 2014 and additional apartment buildings were built on the former company premises.
Peters-Pneu intersection
The Peters-Pneu intersection is the intersection of Bundesstrasse 456 and Saalburgstrasse. See Bundesstraße 456 # Peters-Pneu-Renova-Kreuzung, Bad Homburg .
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