Lace factory Anton Gottschald & Comp.
| Anton Gottschald & Comp. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | probably 1780 |
| Seat | Neudek , Bohemia |
| Number of employees | 8,561 people (1820) |
| Branch | textiles |
The kk privileged lace factory Anton Gottschald & Comp. was the oldest and most important company producing lace in the Austrian Empire . The company was also involved in the Breitfeld und Comp. involved in Prague, which manufactured bobbinetware and was involved in mechanical engineering.
history
The company was probably founded in 1780 (according to other sources as early as 1750) by a Gottschald family in Hirschenstand , who produced and sold lace in their home work. Before 1812 it was owned by the top retailer Franz Anton Gottschald , who also gave the company its name. In 1812, Gottschald's sister-in-law, the lace dealer Joseph Kunzmann Sen. from Sauersack and the master miller Anton Karl Korb from Breitenbach took over the business. Both companies merged under the name Anton Gottschald & Compagnie . After Kunzmann's death, the partner, wholesaler and owner of the blue paint factory, Felix Kerl from Platten, took part in the company.
In 1820 the company already had 8,561 homeworkers from the neighboring towns of St. Joachimsthal, Graslitz, Neudek , Sauersack etc. In the following decades, the company rose to become the most important company for the production of lace nationwide, with lace being sold to Vienna, Graz, Pest and other places of the Imperial and Royal Monarchy beyond the borders of Saxony. In the beginning there were factories in Sauersack and Platten next to the head office in Hirschenstand. When modern tulle sewing came up around 1830 and paralyzed lace making, the company set up bobbinet chairs in Hirschenstand. In 1843 the company brought a quantity of 1400 quintals of linen lace into circulation. The company headquarters were relocated to Neudek in 1846. The company has been completely modernized under the company owners Karl Kunzmann , Kamillo Kunzmann and Julius Korb Sen. The factory in Neudek was expanded and a shop was set up in Frühbuss . With increasing sales, a branch was founded in Vienna, which developed into the center of the entire business.
After the breakup of Austria / Hungary and the establishment of Czechoslovakia , the company owned the two locations Neudek (export - Saxony and overseas) and Vienna (white and haberdashery trade, 1st district, Hoher Markt 12 and customs warehouse, Wipplinger Str. 20). In 1923 a branch in Plauen was founded by Heinrich Leo Kunzmann , a great-grandson of Joseph Kunzmann Sen. In 1926 the Viennese company was separated from the one in Neudek and continued to be run by relatives as a sales point for fashion items. In 1930 insolvency proceedings were opened against Anton Gottschald & Co., Hoher Markt 12, in Vienna. The proceedings were ended in 1931: Rudolf Kamillo Kunzmann leaves the company and Julius Kolb , the company's former authorized signatory in Vienna, is now the sole owner. The company moves to Neutorgasse 1–3 in Vienna and operates as Anton Gottschald . In 1934 the branch in Plauen became independent for financial reasons. Its owners are Heinrich Leo and Josef Kunzmann . After the Second World War , the company was relocated from Plauen to Krefeld and curtains were sold there.
Products
The purpose of the company was the manufacture and trade of
- Black and white silk lace goods , bobbin lace, silk lace
- Tulle goods
- Bobinetware
- Gauze embroidery
- Fashion items
- White goods and haberdashery
- Curtains
- Handgeklöppelter twist
Awards (selection)
- Silver medal at the trade exhibition in Vienna in 1845
- Silver Chamber Prize at the German Bohemian Exhibition in Reichenberg 1906, as well as the recognition of Emperor Franz Joseph I during a visit to the exhibition
Individual evidence
- ^ Art and trade sheet of the Polytechnic Association for the Kingdom of Bavaria . Fleischmann, 1825 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Association for the history of the Germans in the Sudentenländer Prague: Mitteilungen . 1872 ( google.de [accessed on July 10, 2017]).
- ^ Albert Gieseler: Breitfeld, Gottschald & Comp. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
- ^ Report on the first general Austrian trade product exhibition in 1835 . Gerold, January 1, 1835 ( google.de [accessed May 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Stephan von Keess: Representation of the factory and trade in its current state, especially in technical, mercantilian and statistical relation: according to the latest and most reliable sources and after many years of own observations ... edited. Appendix and subject index . Mörschner and Jasper, 1824 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Johann Joseph “von” Prechtl: Yearbooks of the Kaiser. royal polytechnic institute in Vienna ... ed. by Johann Joseph Prechtl . Gerold, 1822 ( google.de [accessed on February 6, 2019]).
- ^ Association for the history of the Germans in the Sudentenländer Prague: Mitteilungen . 1872 ( books.google.de ).
- ^ Journal of the Austrian Lloyd . May 25, 1845 ( anno.onb.ac.at [accessed on February 26, 2017]).
- ^ "Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung", # 107, p. 14, "Central Anzeiger für Handel und Gewerbe" . Wiener Zeitung, May 5, 1868 ( anno.onb.ac.at [accessed February 24, 2017]).
- ^ Wiener Zeitung . No. 190 , July 12, 1845, p. 1486 ( anno.onb.ac.at [accessed on February 26, 2017]).
- ↑ Prager Tagblatt . No. 228 , August 19, 1906, p. 18 ( anno.onb.ac.at [accessed on February 26, 2017]).
- ^ About the tour of the emperor through the exhibition . In: New Free Press . No. 15027 . Neue Freie Presse, June 24, 1906, p. 12 ( anno.onb.ac.at [accessed on February 26, 2017]).