Wernigerode rice miracle

The Reiswunderwerk Wernigerode was a company that dealt with the production of puffed rice and puffed corn and their further processing as puffed rice chocolate. It was founded in the 1930s and was located at Frankenfeldstrasse 6 in the Hasserode district of the city of Wernigerode . His logo was a grain of rice on which the letters RWWW were arranged one below the other. In 1970 this company was incorporated into the VEB Argenta Wernigerode as part of the plant II. The puffed ice cannon used in production reached a measured 120 dB in the production process and led to considerable noise pollution for the residents. In 1981 the Reiswunderwerk, trading as Werk II, was finally closed. The factory buildings were demolished and residential houses were built on the site at the end of the 20th century.

The predecessor of the rice miracle was a royal paper mill, called Obermühle. Its origin is believed to be at the beginning of the 17th century. The line of tenants and owners is long. The last paper millers who made hand-made paper in this place were Johann Heinrich Leunig and his son-in-law Theodor Schneider. After Leunig's death, his heirs sold the paper mill to the felt cloth manufacturer Ferdinand Waldheim from Quedlinburg, who moved his business to Hasserode in 1853. Using the old building, he had a new factory built, which he operated until his death in 1869. The heirs initially continued production, but sold the plant in 1885 to their related brothers Gustav and Wilhelm Marschhausen.

literature

• Otmar Groß: The miracle of rice Otto FC Bertram in memories from Wernigerode , Papierflieger Verlag GmbH, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 10 ″  E