Poschacher natural stone works

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The Poschacher Natursteinwerke are an Austrian family company based in Mauthausen , the 1839 Anton Poschacher (industrialist, 1812) as A. Poschacher granite works was founded and developed systematically through acquisitions. The owner and manager is Anton Helbich-Poschacher .

Development of the company

Together with suppliers, Anton Poschacher produced and delivered large quantities of paving stones and stone carvings from the Mauthausen quarries for large cities such as Bratislava , Budapest and Vienna in the middle of the 19th century . The company was also involved in hydraulic engineering on the Danube and Traun.

The company was in the last quarter of the 19th and early 20th century, after buying the Actiengesellschaft for roads and bridges by Anton Poschacher (industrialist, 1841) in 1876 with the industrial mining , industrial processing and delivery of Mauthausnerstraße granite of the leading company the Mauthausen stone industry and with more than a thousand employees the largest granite-producing company in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Anton Poschacher (industrialist, 1889) headed the company from 1913 to 1954 .

During the Second World War , Spanish slave laborers were used to work in the quarries from the Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camps located in the immediate vicinity . Today some of the company's premises are located on or in the immediate vicinity of the former concentration camps.

From 1954 Leopold Helbich revised the company's range of services together with his wife Wilburg Helbich-Poschacher , began to develop the building materials trade in 1974 and at the same time sold the roof tile production that had only begun in 1954 . The disversification was continued in 1978 with the establishment of a roofing shop and in 1981 the addition of a plumber .

Division of the company

On the occasion of the handover to the sons Anton Helbich-Poschacher and Leonhard Helbich-Poschacher in the mid-1980s , Leopold Helbich and Wilburg Helbich-Poschacher completely separated the natural stone factory from the other company divisions.

Company expansions resulted from the acquisition of quarries and granite works in the Upper Waldviertel . In 2010 the Poschacher natural stone factory owned eight quarries, operates processing plants for natural stone and with 200 employees, around 25 million euros were turned over. Declines in sales, outdated machinery and competition from the Far East were given as the reasons for the self-administration restructuring process that began on October 9, 2012. The debt level is stated at € 25.6 million, 46 salaried employees and 63 manual workers, 14 temporary workers and 360 or 500 creditors are affected. The company is to be restructured and continued. As part of the restructuring process, which was completed at the end of January 2013, the company was also reorganized from a business point of view and will be continued by the owner family.

Locations

  • Gusen, municipality of Langenstein (commercial sales, delivery, collection, production plant, central office)
  • Neuhaus an der Donau , municipality of Sankt Martin im Mühlkreis (quarry, delivery and collection of throwing stones, gravel, rough blocks, fission products)
  • Perg (quarry, collection of throwing stones, banquet material, gravel)
  • Heidlbrunn , municipality of Schlägl (quarry, collection of banquet material, gravel)
  • Mauthausen (private sale)
  • Schrems (quarries, production plant, delivery and collection of products manufactured in the factory such as raw blocks, bulk goods, solid parts)
  • Langenstein Granitwelten (sales advice for private customers)
  • Amstetten Granitwelten (sales advice for private customers)

literature

  • Josef Stummer: GRANIT - building block from Pulgarn to Gloxwald , manuscript of a lecture, held on March 17, 2010 in Perg ( PDF ( Memento from August 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Josef Stummer: The history of the Perger granite quarries , in: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg, publisher: Heimatverein Perg, Stadtgemeinde Perg, 1st edition, March 2009, page 426ff
  • Franz Mathis: Poschacher , in: Big Business in Austria. Austrian large companies in brief presentations . Oldenbourg, Munich / Publishing House for History and Politics, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-486-53771-7
  • Andreas Resch:  Poschacher, Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 648 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mauthausen memorial (PDF, 338 kB; echo36.de)
  2. ↑ Young people in Mauthausen, ( Memento of April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on mauthausen-memorial.at.
  3. ↑ Memorial circular 160, pp. 11–20 (on gedenkstaettenforum.de).
  4. ↑ Poschacher family - indestructible like granite
  5. ↑ Poschacher Natursteinwerke heavily over-indebted: in OÖN of October 9, 2012
  6. ↑ New start in the quarry, in: Bezirksrundschau online from May 28, 2013