Pottendorfer spinning mill
The Pottendorfer spinning mill was the first machine spinning mill in Austria.
history
The Pottendorfer cotton spinning mill was built in 1801 in Pottendorf , Lower Austria . The idea came from the two directors of the imposed commercial, lending and exchange bank in Vienna, Franz Gundacker Fürst von Colloredo-Mannsfeld and Josef Fürst von Schwarzenberg . The company was financed by a group of nobles and wholesalers.
The decisive factor for the choice of location was the presence of numerous textile craftsmen on site so that experts could be used. In addition, the two rivers Fischa and Leitha provided the necessary water power to drive the three water wheels for the time being. Finally, Prince Esterházy was able to provide Grund, as he owned the grounds in Pottendorf and also joined the founding group. He also made his lock available for the construction of the factory.
Due to the export ban on spinning machines from England, it was difficult to implement the plans that included mechanical engineering. The Englishman Johann Thornton from Yorkshire , who was already in Hamburg to build a spinning mill there based on the English model, was hired. After this contract he had to build new spindles, but also to take care of the construction of the factory buildings. He was then to head this factory for 24 years. Soon after it was founded, over 1,000 people were employed , including the 500 home workers . The factory remained the largest spinning mill on today's national territory until the First World War . Outside the old town of Pottendorf, a factory settlement was also built .
In 1856 the company bought the neighboring flax spinning mill from Baron von Reyer and Georg Simon von Sina . The construction of the Pottendorfer line in the 1870s was also important for further development . In 1873 the company was converted into a stock corporation by the Simon G. Sina bank . In 1882 the ownership of the Sina bank was transferred to the Wiener Bankverein . In 1888 the company bought a spinning mill in Rohrbach near Neunkirchen, making the company the sixth largest in Austria-Hungary with 105,376 spindles and 1,100 employees .
In 1916 the spinning and twisting mill came into the possession of the Mautner family , who already owned numerous textile companies throughout the monarchy. In the 1920s, the majority of the shares became the property of the Bodencreditanstalt and Živnostenská banka in Prague. Due to the collapse of the Bodencreditanstalt, the Pottendorfer was re-established as an independent company. With around 1,000 employees at that time, it was merged with Felixdorfer weaving and finishing . The Pottendorfer Spinnerei and Felixdorfer Weberei AG were now the main company of the Mautner Group in Austria.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Part 1. A to L. Pottendorf. Former cotton mill. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Berger, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85028-365-8 , page 1718.
- Big Business in Austria page 235f.
- Rudolf Hertzka: Chronicle of the large community Pottendorf , Pottendorf 1989
- Austrian Biographical Lexicon , various volumes
- Helga Seifert: The beginning of big industry. The beginnings of the "KK privileged Pottendorfer Garnmanufaktur-Gesellschaft" , Dipl. Arb., Vienna 1983
- Josef Szoldatits - Claudia Harn: KK privileged yarn manufacturing company Pottendorf. Foundation - fire reconstruction. War destruction and closure , Pottendorf 1993.
- Constant Wurzbach: Biographical Lexicon of the Empire of Austria , various vol.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Matis, Die Schwarzenberg-Bank on oeaw.ac.at
- ↑ The establishment of the KK privileged Pottendorfer yarn manufactory by Claudia Ham from the booklet of the special exhibition in the Rothen Hof, accessed on January 6, 2017
- ↑ Manfred Wehdorn, Ute Georgeacopol-Winischofer: Monuments of technology and industry in Austria: Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland , Böhlau Verlag Vienna, 1984, ISBN 3205072022 , page 154 ( preview in Google book search)