Terlinden textile care
| Terlinden Textile Care AG Terlinden Management AG |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1868 |
| Seat |
Küsnacht Switzerland
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| management | Max Viktor Terlinden ( CEO and Chairman ) |
| Number of employees | 120 (2010) |
| Branch | Service, real estate |
| Website | www.terlinden.ch |
The Terlinden Textilpflege AG , headquartered in Küsnacht is a Swiss textile care chain.
company
The company was founded in Küsnacht in 1868 as a silk hand printing company and in the 20th century developed into the most important service company for textile finishing (1925), carpet care (1918) and textile cleaning (1877) in Switzerland. It operates more than 30 branches mainly in Zurich and the surrounding area, making it the industry leader in German-speaking Switzerland . Its business activities include the cleaning of clothes, shirts, linen and leather goods as well as curtains, duvets, other home textiles and carpets. In addition, the company also offers various related services such as impregnation and fiber protection, repairs, shirt ironing service and its own sewing studios. The family company is now in the 5th and 6th generation and employs 120 people.
In addition, "Terlinden Management AG" manages the converted industrial area of the former silk hand printing company Terlinden & Co. in Küsnacht. Together with Jelmoli , the company founded a joint textile care company in addition to its previous activity, in which the two companies held a 50 percent stake. In 1999 Jelmoli sold its share to "Terlinden Management AG".
history
The founder of Terlinden was Hermann Hintermeister-Forster (1838–1901). Hintermeister was born in Zurich- Schwamendingen . He met the dyer Jakob Forster († 1871) in the Schmid foulard printing works in Thalwil , where Hintermeister had completed an apprenticeship as a colorist .
In 1862 the two men emigrated to Aeschbach near Lindau in Bavaria, where they worked together in the textile industry. In 1867 they returned to Lake Zurich with the intention of founding their own company. In Goldbach in Küsnacht possessed Henry Forster, the brother of Jacob Forster, on the Goldbacherstrasse a property. They found accommodation in this building, which later became the orphanage. The history of the Terlinden began in the wash house, where the Goldbach still flowed openly at that time: the company was founded in 1868.
After Hintermeister and Forster had operated a hand printing company for foulards , Hintermeister opened a clothes dye factory in 1870. The clothes were washed in the dammed Goldbach, the coals for the boilers were brought across the lake from the Käpfnach mine in a Ledischiff . Jakob Forster died in 1871, one year after the clothes dyeing factory was opened.
The good development of business made it necessary to expand the facilities. In 1873 Hintermeister acquired the former Nägely inn and bakery, in which the dye works was set up. In 1874 the first branch was opened on Oberdorfstrasse in Zurich, under the management of the backmaster's wife Berta. A second store followed in 1878 on Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, one in Bern in 1881 and later others in Lausanne, Geneva, Winterthur and St. Gallen.
As an excellent shooter, Hintermeister attended the 4th German Federal Shooting in Frankfurt am Main in 1877 . During a visit to a dye works there, he met 19-year-old Heinrich Terlinden and hired him as a dyer for his company in Küsnacht. Terlinden was primarily responsible for the area of dry cleaning , which Hintermeister was the first to introduce in Switzerland in 1878. In October 1880 Terlinden married his boss's daughter, Bertha Hintermeister, who had worked in the Zurich branch. He also took over the technical management of the company.
Bertha Hintermeister and Heinrich Terlinden 1880
Hermann Hintermeister
Jakob Forster
Heinrich Terlinden, 1926
Workforce around 1900. Heinrich Terlinden with his hand on his lapel on the left
The company grew every year and became more and more a household name in the industry. At the Swiss national exhibitions in Zurich in 1883 and in Geneva in 1896, the dyed clothes caused a sensation.
Hintermeister repeatedly acquired land until 1899 in order to be able to expand his business. For the journeymen and dyers from Austria, southern Germany and northern states, a so-called food house was set up on Seestrasse. Around 1895 he had the «Villa Hintermeister» built next to the factory site, which is still standing today.
In 1899 Hintermeister retired from the management and left it to his son-in-law Heinrich Terlinden. When he said goodbye, he donated 5,000 francs to the community for the orphanage. In 1900 the company had 200 employees and operated nine shops throughout Switzerland. There were also 50 depots in all of the larger towns.
Heinrich Hintermeister died on June 10, 1901 of a heart condition. “A corpse escort, as Küsnacht had seldom seen, gave the well-deserved and popular man his last respects. Everyone left the church feeling that Küsnacht had lost one of its best citizens ”. In the necrology his friendly relationship between him and his employees was emphasized.
Heinrich Terlinden managed the company until 1926, followed by his sons, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
1867: The wash house
The former Nägely bakery
Hintermeister factory around 1885
Factory around 1900
Idealized representation of the factory around 1910
Modern times
As a result of the far-reaching structural change in the textile industry , textile finishing at the Küsnacht location was shut down in 1998, the carpet care facility was sold, the central textile cleaning facility relocated to other locations and the administration relocated to Zurich Witikon . This made the 11,000 m 2 area in Küsnacht free for conversion. As a result, various old buildings were demolished and replaced by new buildings, and the remaining old buildings were modernized. The area now known as the Goldbach Center houses office, shopping and commercial space. The boiler house with the high chimney from 1927, located directly on Lake Zurich, was converted into an office building in 2003. The high chimney with 42 meters is a landmark of Goldbach.
literature
- Amalie Staubmann-Rothlin: Two successful founders of industry in Küsnacht. In: Küsnachter Jahrheft 1968, p. 43.
- Barbara Schindler: The Terlinden company in Küsnacht. In: Küsnachter annual booklet 2017, p. 55.
- Martin Illi: Hintermeister, Hermann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Terlinden-Bote, 1968, issue 2.
- Franz Schoch: History of the community Küsnacht. Küsnacht 1951.
- Necrology about Hermann Hintermeister. In: Meilen district weekly paper, June 11, 1901.
Web links
Christian Baertschi: Terlinden. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .