Steinzeugwerke Bitterfeld
The VEB stoneware works bitter field was in 1953 formed from the long-established enterprises C. Kelsch and Heinrich August Piltz, whose owners in the same year after West Germany relocated. On January 1, 1959 , the Bitterfeld stoneware works were transformed into the VEB Baustoffkombinat Bitterfeld , which included three stoneware factories , several brickworks and gravel pits. The VEB Baustoffkombinat Bitterfeld was transferred to the VEB Steinzeugwerk Bad Schmiedeberg in 1968 . The Bitterfeld operations were gradually closed. After German reunification in 1990 , the 130-year-old tradition of Bitterfeld stoneware production, which before the Second World War was one of the most important in the German Reich , ended with the closure of the Piltz branch .
production
The main product of the stoneware works were stoneware pipes for sewer systems . From 1953, VEB Steinzeugwerke had a production capacity of 15,000 tonnes per year of ceramic products, which were manufactured in 42 briquette-heated single chamber ovens . These were shut down in 1983 . A gas-fired tunnel kiln was in operation from 1960 .
Bitterfeld brickworks and clay pipe factories
- Polko - 1861/1863 clay pipes factory
- Master builders and sons - two steam brick factories as early as 1885
- Kelsch (Schoof) - 1863 (clay pipe factory)
- Rühl (Paasch) - 1863 (?) Or 1870 (clay pipe factory)
- Munzing (Jahn) - 1872 (clay pipe factory)
- Polko 2 - 1872 (clay pipe factory)
- Schirmer. Piltz & Co. - (clay pipe factory)
- Thon pipes and chamotte factory Richter & Co. - 1873 (Thon pipe factory)
- CH Kühle (paper factory) - a brick factory as early as 1885
- A. Dietze brickworks - mentioned as early as 1885
- E. Krüger - a steam brick factory as early as 1885
- Weiland brickworks - mentioned as early as 1885
- Liesche brickworks - mentioned as early as 1885
- Brickworks at Altschloß - mentioned as early as 1885
literature
- Winfried Feja: The ceramic industrial history of the Bitterfeld region. In: On the industrial history of the Bitterfeld region. 3 / no year. Self-published, pp. 8–35.