Radebeuler machine factory August Koebig

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The Radebeuler machine factory August Koebig was a "factory for the manufacture of paper processing machines " . It is a forerunner of Koenig & Bauer AG Werk Radebeul . The ruinous factory buildings are located in the Radebeul industrial area, at Meißner Strasse 17.

Administration building on Meißner Straße, status 2019
Operation halls and the chimney, which was shortened for structural reasons, as it was on the Open Monument Day 2019

The factory halls were open to the public on Open Monument Day 2019. It became known that the property was being fundamentally renovated by a resident entrepreneurial family so that the family business across the street could move from its too small site to the larger halls of the factory last known as ZERMA.

history

Radebeuler machine factory August Koebig

The company was founded in Dresden in 1890 by August Ferdinand Koebig (* March 11, 1855 - November 22, 1944) as a "factory for the manufacture of paper processing machines" . In 1894, the company with 16 employees moved to the Radebeul industrial area at today's Meißner Straße 17. Machines for paper processing and finishing, aniline and gravure printing machines , special systems for the film, rubber and textile finishing industries, as well as exposure machines and development systems for the photo industry were manufactured. in addition machines for the production of powder paper . In 1939 290 employees worked there.

After the Second World War, the factory was dismantled and brought back to life as VEB RAMASCH . In 1961 the company moved to a new factory building at Friedrich-List-Straße 2. Machines for paper finishing and painting were made. In 1967 and 1968, RAMASCH was then integrated into the Planeta printing machine plant , today a Koenig & Bauer plant.

"ZERMA" shredding machines

ZERMA factory gate with company emblem, view of the state of the building in 2012
Koebig's company building on Meißner Strasse, factory buildings, 2008

The company Zerkleinerungsmaschinenbau E. Günzel KG (Güma), which was founded in 1941 (or 1943), was forced to take a state stake in GDR times, was nationalized in April 1972 and converted into VEB Zerkleinerungsmaschinen "ZERMA". The company, which was the only GDR company to build shredding machines for the plastics industry for the production of plastic granules , relocated its headquarters from Sidonienstraße to the former RAMASCH factory building at Meißner Straße 17 after the name change.

In the 1980s, 120 employees worked there. After the name was changed to a GmbH in 1990, the company went bankrupt in 1994 . The company AMIS Maschinen-Vertriebs GmbH, newly founded in Baden-Württemberg in 1994, took over parts of ZERMA; Today's sales office ZERMA Europe in Zuzenhausen refers to over 50 years of product experience in its company brochure. At the end of 1995 the company in Radebeul was closed. In 1999, ZERMA Machinery & Recycling Technology Co., Ltd. the new company headquarters as well as the current production site were founded in Shanghai . Today the company is one of the world's leading manufacturers of plastic grinding granulators .

The efforts of the association ZERR-MA-MIT , founded in October 1995, to transform the factory halls into a cultural center were in vain .

description

Koebig's company building on Meißner Strasse, after a fire in 2008
(top left: Unionbrücke on BAB 4 )

The building permit for the two-storey, right-hand head building as a residential and office building was granted in October 1895. Facing the street, it shows a central projection , which is elevated with a gable in order to cover a flat hipped roof . The flat, two-story production halls behind it were built in 1900.

On the left side of the street, another building with a mansard roof and a dwelling was built in 1910 by the construction company FW Eisold . Both plastered buildings on Meißner Straße have rubble stone bases and window frames in sandstone. The outer arches of the windows and the pilaster strips are made of bricks.

The listed buildings, which have been vacant since 1995, are in a ruinous condition, the two residential and administrative buildings on Meißner Strasse were destroyed after a fire. The halls at the back are secured in 2019 and will be converted into rooms for a local family business.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Friedrich Engel, Gerhard Kuper, Frank Bell, Joachim Polzer (eds.): Zeitschichten. Magnetic tape technology as a culture carrier. Inventor biographies and inventions. Chronology of magnetic tape technology and its use in radio, music, film and video production. Polzer Media Group, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 3-934535-27-5 .
  • Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .

Web links

Commons : Radebeuler Maschinenfabrik August Koebig  - Collection of images
  • 100 years of sound recording with a photo of a tape factory 1938: A combined film drawing and tape casting machine, built by the Koebig company in Radebeul near Dresden
  • Photo gallery with many exterior and interior views from around 2010

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 40 years of Radebeul machine factory Aug. Koebig. In: paper newspaper. 55.1930, p. 2696.
  2. ↑ Koebig's advertising brochure from around 1939
  3. ↑ powder paper. In: Fred Winter: The modern perfumery. 6th edition, Springer, Vienna 1949, p. 304.
  4. ^ KBA history homepage
  5. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 159 .
  6. ^ ZERMA - The Home of Size Reduction
  7. ↑ About ZERMA
  8. ↑ The Radebeul city lexicon gives a different indication at the beginning of the 1950s.
  9. ↑ a b Artifacts - Radebeul: VEB ZERMA
  10. ↑ PDF company brochure ( Memento of the original from March 13, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labotek.com
  11. ^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 225 .
  12. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 25 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 40 "  N , 13 ° 41 ′ 47"  E