Spessarthütte
The Spessarthütte was one of the eight glassworks in Ilmenau in the Thuringian Forest . The company was actually called Möller, Jungwirth and Griebel , but for historical reasons the people of Ilmenau called the hut the Spessarthütte . It was in operation from 1904 to 1950.
history
The entrepreneurs Möller, Jungwirth and Griebel founded the glassworks under their name in 1904 on Schlachthofstraße directly north of the Ilmenau train station . The site of the smelter was quite impressive: in addition to two hut buildings, it also included many outbuildings in which the glassblowers worked, as well as direct access to the Ilmenau freight yard.
Mainly hollow glass , tubular glass and various industrial glass were produced . The hut was also known for its high-quality feeding bottles , teapots and coffee machines , which were made with a special material called Vitrex glass . In the 1930s, the hut with its 300 employees at the time was taken over by the Spessarter Hohlglaswerke Lohr , which is where the name Spessarthütte comes from. Today this Lower Franconian company belongs to the Gerresheimer Holding, which operated what was at times the largest glassworks in Germany in Düsseldorf and has belonged to the US Owens-Illinois group since 2005 .
After the Second World War , the hut was nationalized as a state-owned company and separated from the Lower Franconian parent company. Production continued until 1950, before the Spessarthütte was then closed by the GDR's state planning commission . The approximately 250 employees found a new job in the other glassworks in the city and the surrounding area.
Although it was closed in 1950, the Spessarthütte stood as an industrial ruin north of the train station until 2001. After the buildings were demolished by 2002, the residential area "An der Spessarthütte" has been located on the old area of the glassworks since 2004. In contrast to the Sophienhütte or the Altshütte , for example , there was no soil remediation here (removal / searching of the soil for environmentally harmful industrial waste and residues).
Glassworks : Sophienhütte (1852–1991) | Langshütte (1900–1968) | Spessarthütte (1904–1950) | Fischerhütte (1910–1976) | Altshütte (1922–1975)
Technical glass processing: Thüringische Glasinstrumentenfabrik Alt, Eberhardt & Jäger (1872–1976 / 1991) | VEB factory for technical glass Ilmenau (1976–1994) | Technische Glaswerke Ilmenau (1994–2014) | Ilmaborglass GmbH (2014-2015)
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 14 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 27" E