Saxon bronze goods factory
The Sächsische Bronzewarenfabrik (1972–1990 VEB Spezialuchtenbau Wurzen ) was originally a company based in Wurzen for the production of ceiling and wall lights as well as special lighting fixtures . The successor company today is SBF Spezialuchten GmbH , based in Leipzig, and Leuchten Manufactur since 1862 i. SA. GmbH based in Wurzen.
Company history
Saxon bronze goods factory
The company was founded on May 24th, 1862 by the master belt maker Karl A. Seyffert in Wurzen as a haberdashery and haberdashery store, but soon devoted itself to the manufacture of candelabras , chandeliers and similar lighting fixtures. In a catalog for the trade and industrial exhibition in Wurzen in 1880, the company name K. Seifert, Metall- und Broncewaaren-Fabrik can be found , which in an advertisement “Lighting objects for gas u. Petroleum - as crowns, candelabra, etc. ”offers. The advent of gas lighting and the production of the first electrically operated outdoor lights led to economic success and, on May 27, 1889, to conversion into a stock corporation. At that time the company already employed around 500 people. Management was the responsibility of the company's founder's son, Karl Max Seifert.
Mainly lighting fixtures for gas, electric and acetylene lighting were manufactured , which were used in numerous buildings. The public buildings that were equipped with the company's products included a. the Reichstag building in Berlin , the imperial court building and the university in Leipzig, numerous town halls and administrative buildings, but also the Mariinsky Theater and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg and the Imperial Hall of the Ascension Church in Jerusalem . There were also private contracts for hotels and cafes. The lighting fixtures still preserved in the historic Pfunds Molkerei shop in Dresden also come from Wurzen. The sale took place via sample catalogs and presentations at exhibitions, for example at the electrical exhibition in Karlsruhe in 1896 and at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . There were large sample exhibitions in Berlin's Ritterstrasse and during the Leipzig trade fair in the municipal department store .
After the First World War, the Sächsische Bronzewarenfabrik AG increasingly devoted itself to the production of lighting fixtures for ships. At the end of the 1920s, for example, the company supplied light carriers and metal music stands for the famous Lloyd steamer Bremen . In 1934, the company was converted into a partnership and, after the Second World War, operated as Sächsische Bronzewarenfabrik Neidhard & Zimmermann KG until 1972 .
VEB special lighting construction
From 1968 the company specialized in the production of lighting systems in rail vehicles. As part of the nationalization of the last private companies in the GDR, the Sächsische Bronzewarenfabrik was converted into a state- owned company (VEB) in 1972 with around 140 employees . From then on, the company traded as VEB Spezialuchtenbau Wurzen . VEB Wohnraumuchten was added as a branch in 1974, then VEB Kunstschmiede in 1975 and VEB Elektromechanik in 1978. In 1981 the VEB Regulatorbau followed as well as two Leipzig companies with a total of 490 employees. In addition to special lights for rail vehicles and ships, custom-made products for representative interior fittings continued to be produced. One of the most important creations of this period was the production of over 350 chandeliers based on historical models for the Dresden Semperoper , including the large chandelier in the auditorium.
Successor company after 1990
| SBF special lights GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1862 |
| Seat | Leipzig , Germany |
| management | Lars Jörges (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 140 (2014) |
| Branch | Rail vehicle construction |
| Website | www.sbf-germany.com |
In 1990 VEB Spezialuchtenbau was converted into a GmbH and re-privatized. Initially, the company operated under its traditional name Sächsische Broncewarenfabrik GmbH , but was renamed SBF Spezialuchten Wurzen GmbH in 1994 . On June 9, 2011, Corona Equity Partner GmbH first took a 50 and then 100 percent stake in the company. A year later, in May, the company moved to the Baalsdorf industrial park in Leipzig.
The production program mainly includes ceiling and lighting systems for the rail vehicle industry. The indoor and outdoor lighting and ceiling systems from SBF are used in trams , underground trains , regional trains , long-distance trains and high-speed trains , among others. a. used in the Transrapid . In 2007, the production of LED-based lighting for rail vehicles began. In addition to German manufacturers, customers in China, India, the USA, Japan and France are also supplied.
The spin-off company LMW Manufaktur for decorative lights has been dedicated to traditional lighting fixture construction since 2002 (since 2012 Leuchten Manufactur since 1862 in SA).
literature
- Richard Klinkhardt: Die Wurzener Industrie 1797 - 2002. Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2005, ISBN 3-934544-48-7 , p. 135.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sächsischer Pestalozzi-Verein (Ed.): Colorful pictures from the Sachsenlande: for youth and people , Volume 2, J. Klinkhardt, 1908, p. 457.
- ↑ Georg Malkowsky: The Paris World Exhibition in Word and Image , Kirchhoff, Berlin 1900.
- ^ Karl H. Bröhan: Art from Art Nouveau to Modernism (1889-1939). Volume 4, Bröhan-Museum, 1990, p. 446.
- ↑ Ulrich Hess (Ed.): Entrepreneurs in Saxony: Rise - Crisis - Fall - New Beginning. Volume 4 of Leipzig studies for the research of regional identification processes, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-933240-21-7 , p. 297 f.
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung of February 11, 1981, p. 3.
- ↑ Company: Career. SBF Spezialuchten GmbH, accessed on December 19, 2014.
- ↑ Corona takes a stake in SBf Spezialuchten Wurzen GmbH. ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2014 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. News - CORONA EQUITY Partner AG, accessed on December 19, 2014.
- ↑ Official Journal of the City of Leipzig, November 24, 2012, p. 3.
