Glassworks settlement (Arnsdorf)

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Upper glassworks settlement

The glassworks settlement is a locality in the Saxon community of Arnsdorf . The settlement was built from 1901 to provide living space for the workers of the Arnsdorf sheet glass works , which produced from 1902 to 1927, and their families.

Table glass works in Arnsdorf

After the Arnsdorf train station opened in 1875, various branches of industry began to establish themselves in the town. The Hirsch family of glassmakers , who operated several glassworks in neighboring Radeberg , applied for the establishment of a glass factory in Arnsdorf in 1900. The construction was approved and in 1902 the A. Georg Hirsch Arnsdorf i. Sa. , on the road to Radeberg and right next to the railway line to Kamenz . The factory got its own siding for the delivery and removal of raw materials and finished products. At first one, from 1903 two and from 1907 three harbor furnaces were operated in the Arnsdorf factory . Further factory buildings such as warehouses, generator systems and a boiler house were built. There were also buildings for the social needs of the workers, such as changing rooms and lounges.

Factory view 1910

In December 1902, sheet glass production began in Arnsdorf. The company became a member of the Sächsische Tafelglas GmbH and the German Tafelglashütten Association . Over 100 workers were employed in the glassworks. After A. Georg Hirsch's death, his descendants took over the factory. After the First World War , the development in the glass industry was to manufacture sheet glass by machine. These modernizations and the economic effects of the war brought many manual glassworks like the Arnsdorf family into financial difficulties. The Arnsdorf branch of the Hirsch entrepreneurial family filed for bankruptcy in 1927 and closed the plant. All factory buildings were demolished between 1937 and 1951. The siding was also dismantled, only the houses of the workers remained.

Glassworks settlement

The glass factory made it necessary to build new housing for the workers and their families. In order to get workers from other factories already specialized in the manual production of sheet glass to work in Arnsdorf, several two-family houses and multi-family houses that were considered comfortable for the time were built right next to the factory. The glassworks settlement is divided into an upper and a lower part, accordingly the streets leading through were named Glashüttenstraße , Obere Glashüttensiedlung (previously Obere Glashütte ) and Untere Glashüttensiedlung (previously Untere Glashütte ).

Upper glassworks settlement

Upper glassworks settlement and sheet glass works in Arnsdorf around 1911; The Glasfabrik restaurant is on the hill to the left of the street

The construction of the first eight two-family houses for the workers in the glassworks began in 1901. These were built between the glassworks and the road to Radeberg. The first houses in the Upper Glassworks Estate were ready for occupancy when the plant opened in 1902. After the first eight, two more houses were built in the settlement, these in the form of row houses for three families each. After the glassworks went bankrupt in 1927, the buildings in the housing estate initially came into the possession of the municipality or the railway company, and later they were sold to private owners. When the factory buildings were finally demolished in 1950/51, recovered building materials were used to build another residential building for several families on the site of a former functional building for the glassworks.

Restaurant glass factory

The innkeeper Gustav Krüger applied for the construction of an inn with an attached shop in 1906. Approval was granted and in 1908 the building on the road to Radeberg, opposite the Upper Glassworks Estate, was completed and opened. In addition to the restaurant glass factory Kruger ran a grocery store . After the bankruptcy of the glass factory, the restaurant and shop continued to operate for several decades before the building was converted into a purely apartment building.

Lower glassworks settlement

Below the glassworks, the Hirsch family had four more semi-detached houses built between 1903 and 1907 , which were called the Lower Glassworks Estate. A former gardener's residential building, popularly known as the “Jagdschlösschen”, was also converted into a residential building for the glassworks and integrated into the settlement. After the closure of the factory, the buildings of the Lower Glassworks Estate came into the possession of the heirs of the Hirsch entrepreneurial family, who sold them to private owners, mostly to the residents of the time, during the Second World War .

literature

  • Dietrich Mauerhoff: The former sheet glass steelworks A. Georg Hirsch, Arnsdorf i. Saxony . In: Pressed Glass Correspondence . No. 2010-2 , p. 217-236 .

Web links

Commons : Glashüttensiedlung  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Müller's Large German Local Book 2012 . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027806-4 , p. 437 ( Google Books ).
  2. ^ Radeberger Zeitung - Das Echo, edition of July 21, 1900; and Arnsdorf municipal archive, building file 367.
  3. ↑ Mauerhoff / Pressglas-Korrespondenz, p. 220ff.
  4. ^ Hirsch, Georg A., sheet glass works in Arnsdorf i. Sa . In: Address book of the glass industry 1911 . Verlag Müller u. Schmidt, Coburg 1911, p. 103 .
  5. ↑ Mauerhoff / Pressglas-Korrespondenz, p. 223f.
  6. ↑ Mauerhoff / Pressglas-Korrespondenz, p. 227.
  7. ↑ Arnsdorf municipal archive, building files 363, 364, 367 and 371.
  8. ↑ a b Mauerhoff / Pressglas-Korrespondenz, p. 227ff.
  9. ↑ Mauerhoff / Pressglas-Korrespondenz, p. 234f.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '12.7 "  N , 13 ° 58' 35.8"  E