Spinning mill on the Lorze

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Obligation of the spinning mill on the Lorze dated September 30, 1895
Spinning mill building on the Lorze in 2012

From 1854, when the spinning mill was put into operation on the Lorze on the eastern edge of the village of Baar on the new road to Sihlbrugg, a new industrial area was created. Wolfgang Henggeler was one of the co-founders of the spinning mill. The spinning mill temporarily became the largest cotton mill in Switzerland. Industrialization completely changed economic, social and denominational coexistence in Baar within a few decades.

history

With the influx of workers for the spinning mill, the number of Protestants (12 in 1850, 209 in 1860) rose, which is why the Reformed parish of the canton of Zug was founded in 1863 with the help of the spinning mill, which in 1867 built the first Reformed church in the Canton could inaugurate. Since the spinning mill built food houses for the working class families and houses for the cadre in its vicinity, a new district was formed away from the old village center of Baar. By 1919, other wood processing operations, some directly related to the spinning mill, followed (wooden textile bobbins 1869, wood goods factory 1913, which was continued as a furniture factory in 1938), food and luxury goods production ( brewery 1862, mill 1905), metal (1900 ) and apparatus construction (water management apparatus 1919) as well as energy generation (Baar electricity works 1896, operated by the spinning mill from 1897–1992), which made Baar an industrial community.

At the end of the 1920s, the spinning mill got into a prolonged sales crisis that led to major job losses. In 1993 the spinning mill on the Lorze was stopped.

literature

  • Dr. Werner Ammann: 100 years of spinning on the Lorze Baar 1854-1954 , anniversary publication of the spinning on the Lorze Baar / Switzerland

Web links

Commons : Spinnerei an der Lorze, Baar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "History of the community of Baar". Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
  2. ^ Renato Morosoli: Baar (ZG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 9, 2009 , accessed April 9, 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '45 "  N , 8 ° 32' 14.9"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred sixty-seven  /  227791