Steel construction Lavis
| Steel construction Lavis | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1897 |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Seat | Offenbach am Main, Germany |
| Branch | steel construction |
Stahlbau Lavis was founded by Michael Lavis (1842–1906) as a boiler forge in 1897 and produced steel components for structural, bridge and industrial construction from 1907 to the mid-1990s at the Offenbach am Main location .
Company history 1897–1945
Boilermaker and steel maker Michael Lavis founded a boiler forge in 1897, which expanded in the following decade to such an extent that, from 1907, production began on a 7.5 hectare site at what is now the Odenwaldring in Offenbach am Main. The new company was named after the company founder Stahlbau Lavis, who had died a year earlier. The factory consisted of production halls, warehouses, administration and social buildings, of which nothing is preserved today. The company developed into a major player in the field of structural engineering and bridge construction by the mid-1920s. Numerous examples attest to the company's market position from this time. In 1913 the Deutschherrnbrücke in Frankfurt am Main and in 1934 the Offenbach-Fechenheimer Mainbrücke in Offenbach am Main (later replaced by the Carl-Ulrich-Brücke ) were largely built by the Lavis company.
The company had a connection to the Hanau – Frankfurt railway line via the industrial railway .
Company history from 1946
After the Second World War , the war-torn bridges in Germany were rebuilt and new ones were built. Lavis was involved in this development activity to a large extent, although the company had to pay reparations to the victorious Allied powers. For example, the steel structure of the Hanau- Steinheim Main Bridge was built by Lavis. Stahlbau Lavis produced large capital goods from steel such as B. pipelines, containers and cranes for customers at home and abroad. In the 1970s, the company concentrated on structural steel construction and was involved in many major construction projects at home and abroad. In the following years Lavis was involved in the construction of large power plants in Germany and in the construction of the test section of the Transrapid .
In 1990 the company was sold to Philipp Holzmann AG and in 1996 production relocated to Aschaffenburg . In the course of the insolvency of the Holzmann construction company, operations there were shut down. Stahlbau Lavis has now merged with the Züblin Group and the company name (company) is no longer used. The former company site in Offenbach-Lauterborn has been converted into a commercial space for retailers - the so-called ring center - and is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Local route guide No. 13 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 686 kB) (No longer available online.) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, August 2006, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
