Bad Friedrichshall salt works
The Saline Bad Friedrichshall (1817-1820 Saline Friedrichshall , 1820-1900 Royal Wuerttemberg Saline Friedrichshall , 1900 State Saline Friedrichshall ) is a 1817 founded Saline of the South-West German salt works AG in Baden-Württemberg town of Bad Friedrichshall .
history
Finding the salt store and founding the salt works
The history of salt production in Bad Friedrichshall began in 1816 when, in what is now Bad Friedrichshall-Jagstfeld, Bergrat Bilfinger first drilled a solid rock salt deposit in Central Europe at a depth of 150 meters. This demonstrated a wealth of salt that was unique for the time. In the following year, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg granted the building permit for the Friedrichshall saltworks as well as a permit to sink a shaft. The salt works went into operation in the same year. In 1820 the Königlich Württembergische Saline Friedrichshall finally became . The name Friedrichshall is a memory of the king's father, Friedrich . Because of a water inrush, it was initially limited to extraction through brine evaporation.
Development of the saltworks
From 1828 to 1936 , Friedrichshall and the Clemenshall saltworks in the neighboring town of Offenau , Ludwig ( Bad Rappenau ) and Ludwigshall ( Bad Wimpfen ) formed the salt sales skartell Neckarsalinenverein , the oldest and longest active German business cartel , to protect against their respective competitors .
In 1848 Friedrichshall took over the administration and the treasury of Clemenshall, in 1859 the mining of salt was started under the direction of the geologist and salinist Friedrich von Alberti .
After rock salt production was given up in 1895 due to the breakage of some salt pillars and a flood (" drowning ") , a new mine was opened in 1899 in what is now Bad Friedrichshall-Kochendorf, since the evaporated salt plants alone could not meet the demand. The King Wilhelm II shaft reaches the salt store with a thickness of 25 meters at a depth of 180 meters.
In 1900 Clemenshall , Wilhelmshall in Rottweil and Friedrichshall were merged to form a new company, the Staatliche Saline Friedrichshall . In 1901 the company achieved a higher rock salt production than the highest ever in Friedrichshall.
In 1944 a concentration camp was set up in Bad Friedrichshall , the Kochendorf concentration camp , whose prisoners were supposed to set up an armaments factory in the salt mine. Today the permanent exhibition of the Kochendorf Memorial in the visitor mine reminds of this.
In 1965 the Südwestdeutsche Salinen GmbH was founded as an operating and sales company for the United Badische Staatssalinen Dürrheim-Rappenau AG and the Staatliche Saline Friedrichshall .
In 1968 the Südwestdeutsche Salinen GmbH and the United Badische Staatssalinen Dürrheim-Rappenau AG merged to form the Südwestdeutsche Salz AG , based in Bad Friedrichshall . In 1971 the Südwestsalz-Vertriebs GmbH was established, also based in Bad Friedrichshall, as a sales company between Salzwerk Heilbronn AG and Südwestdeutsche Salz AG . Also in 1971, Salzwerk Heilbronn AG merged with Südwestdeutsche Salz AG to form Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG , based in Heilbronn .
In 1984 the rock salt mines Heilbronn and Bad Friedrichshall were connected underground; the König Wilhelm II shaft was renovated between 1986 and 1988 and equipped with a new conveyor system.
In 1991 “175 years of salt from Bad Friedrichshall” could be celebrated.
The Südsalz GmbH was founded in 1995 : This includes the Berchtesgaden salt mine , the Bad Reichenhall saltworks , the previous Bad Reichenhaller Salz sales company as well as the Bad Friedrichshall saltworks and the previous Südwestsalz Vertriebs GmbH in Bad Friedrichshall.
In 2012 the newly designed and modernly designed visitor mine in Bad Friedrichshall was reopened.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum in the Franconian Court , Bad Rappenau City Museum, Bürgerhaus
- ↑ salzwerke.de: History Southwest German salt works AG
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 9.1 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 35.1 ″ E