Frey rope factory

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The Seilerei Frey in Ettenheim heard as rope-making among the oldest and most traditional craft of the village. The rope mill has been run by the Frey family since the times of Franz Josef Frey (1780–1835). At times, up to three members of the Freys family operated the town's distinctive cable cars at the same time. The Frey rope works has been the only rope works in Ettenheim since 1930; its owner at the time, Aloys Frey, was guild chairman in the Freiburg administrative region after the Second World War.

history

The rope making has a long tradition in Ettenheim and has been documented since 1759. The fiber plants hemp and flax served as raw materials for the rope mill in Ettenheim . Until the middle of the 20th century, the 50 to 60 meter long, covered cable cars on the road to Altdorf were a defining feature of the town. In addition to the Seiler companies were also in Ettenheim and suppliers where required to break the fiber plants Panting and Hechelzähne were manufactured.

The Frey family of rope makers in Ettenheim goes back to Franz Josef Frey (1780–1835), who had an agricultural business and also ran rope and hackling. His son Josef Frey (1805–1868), the grandson Josef Frey (1836–1915) and then the great-grandchildren Max and Adolf Frey, who both operated the Ettenheimer Seilerbahnen, followed him as ropers. August Frey, another relative, also ran a cable car. An endless drive rope, which was connected to the drive wheel of a spindle, ran over pulleys attached to posts rammed into the earth. The ropers, connected to the endless rope with a line, ran backwards along the cableway, each time using their hands to form a fiber strand from a hemp braid that they had carried with them, which was then twisted over the spindle. The Ettenheimer Seiler manufactured pull ropes and carriage ropes in particular on these systems. Her other products included grass nets, twine, string, clotheslines, etc.

Until 1930, Max Frey's rope factory was the last rope factory in Ettenheim. Before the Second World War, the business was passed to his son Aloys Frey (* 1907), who built a weather-independent cable car in Gewann Bienle in 1941 . After the Second World War, Aloys Frey became guild steward in the Freiburg administrative region . In 1958, Bienle became a new development area, so that the company had to move to the western Fürstenfeld , where a 250-meter-long property offered space for a new cable car. The cable car was shortened later after the production of wire ropes had started in 1974.

On January 1, 1977, Peter Frey, the owner's son, became the sole owner of the company. He concentrated primarily on the production of nets for living and working areas, including above all sports and safety nets, and built a new production hall in 1978.

literature

  • Robert Furtwängler: From handicraft to automatic operation - the Frey rope factory in Ettenheim, an old family property ; in: Geroldsecker Land, ed. vom Ortenaukreis, issue 22, 1980

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