Brändlin spinning mill
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The Brändlin spinning mill (formerly the Brändlin brothers spinning mill ) is a former spinning mill in Jona , a district of the Swiss municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen .
location
The building complex is located at Holzwiesenstrasse 33, 35 and 37 on the Jona , a river in the Swiss cantons of Zurich and St. Gallen , after which the district of Rapperswil-Jona of the same name is named. The factory site of the factory closed down in 1993 has been partially used by commercial operations, but has mainly been used as living space since 2003.
history
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In 1803, the cotton merchant Christian Näf from Wattwil acquired the hammer mill at Spinnereistrasse 40, which was built in 1563, including the water rights to the Stadtbach Rapperswil and expanded it with his son-in-law Jakob Braendlin-Näf into one of the first mechanical cotton mills in Switzerland. In 1808 Brändlin-Näf rented the neighboring paper mill, built in 1695, and operated some spinning machines on his own account. In 1811, he and his brothers Heinrich, Rudolf and Johannes founded the “ Braendlin Brothers Collective Society ” in order to run a spinning mill in Rapperswil and the Sonne inn in Stäfa , which belonged to their parents. The building and the water concession from 1563 passed to Johannes Hürlimann-Burkhard in 1817. Until 1819 the water power of the Stadtbach provided enough energy to operate 4,000 spindles ; from 1826 onwards there were already 8,000 mechanically operated spindles for which additional energy was required. For this purpose, a water pipe was built from the Lattenbach to the still existing water house in 1826 , with a water wheel on its east side, in the newly built west wing on the left bank of the Jona. In 1832 the brothers took a 50% stake in the newly founded Uznaberg spinning mill . In 1838, with the development of further water resources, the spinning mill could be enlarged to 18,000 spindles, around 1856 it was expanded to 20,000 mechanically operated spindles by replacing the 11 meter diameter water wheel built in 1850 with two Jonval turbines from the André Koechlin company. Together with the plants in neighboring Ermenswil and Uznaberg, the Brändlin brothers owned the second largest spinning company in Switzerland.
With the constant expansion of the company and the associated influx of numerous workers and their families, the former court community of Rapperswil , which has been independent since 1802, reached a larger population than the former manor town around 1837 . With increasing industrialization, the majority of the factory owners who settled in Rapperswil became citizens of Jona, where they could still purchase enough land, and so the generously laid out factory owners' villa Grünstels was built as early as 1822 , built on behalf of Jakob Braendlin-Näf in the immediate vicinity of the factory premises . Around 1850, the company employed around 300 people, including around 90 women and 150 children and young people between the ages of 12 and 18 - see also child labor in Switzerland - each 13 hours on six working days per week.
After decades of continuous growth, there was a significant decline in orders in the early 1980s due to the outsourcing of the textile industry to so-called low - wage countries , and in 1993 the family company ceased operations after five generations. By 2003, most of the historical industrial facilities were converted into living space.
Stadtbach and Brändlin Canal
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At the “ Hackennest ” in Jona, the Brändlin brothers had a weir built in the Jona around 1838, which diverted part of the water into a canal and crossed under the Aspwald by means of a tunnel. Here the tunnel led into the Brändlinweiher near the Tägernau and was led via another canal to the spinning mill. In the 19th century, a large water wheel supplied the energy for the spinning mill and the water by means of another canal over the Jona to a weir near the building of the Rapperswil-Jona electricity works, where the Stadtbach and the factory canal unite and return excess water to the River arrives. Under Johannes Hürlimann's eldest son, Johannes Hürlimann-Brändlin, the Jona Canal was relocated to the western side of the Spinnereistrasse in 1845. With this structural measure, the Stadtbach and the Brändlin Canal received their current routing along the Spinnereistrasse.
literature
- Peter Röllin: Rapperswil-Jona cultural building set: 36 museums without a roof . Rapperswil-Jona 2005, ISBN 3-033-00478-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Rapperswil-Jona water supply: History of the old Rapperswil fountains ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 14, 2013.
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '6.5 " N , 8 ° 50' 16.8" E ; CH1903: 705,960 / 232524