Sebnitz hoist plant
| VEB lifting tool factory in Sebnitz
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| legal form | publicly-owned business |
| founding | 1948 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Seat | Sebnitz , Germany |
| Branch | Mechanical engineering , automobile manufacturer |
The VEB hoist service Sebnitz was a manufacturer of mobile cranes in the GDR . The company was located in Sebnitz in today's district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains , Saxony . Its best-known product was the auto slewing cranes (ADK) .
history
The state-owned company VEB Hebezeugwerk Sebnitz emerged in 1948 from Georg Kirsten GmbH , which was then based in Sebnitz . This company, founded in 1909, produced lifting and towing equipment for the Wehrmacht during the Second World War (license production of Bilstein cranes ). After the referendum in Saxony on June 30, 1946 , he was expropriated. At that time, more than 180 employees were manufacturing tow trucks , gantry cranes and various other lifting equipment. After the expropriation, the previous owners rebuilt their company in Kell am See in Rhineland-Palatinate , where it still exists today.
After the Soviet Union had dismantled the inventory of the Sebnitzer paper factory as a repair , VEB Hebezeugwerk Sebnitz moved into the vacant premises in 1950. At that time, the hoist factory belonged to VVB ABUS (" Equipment for Mining and Heavy Industry") and therefore later also to the VVB TAKRAF ("Opencast mining equipment, cranes and conveyor systems") that emerged from it . A feeder line connected it with at the Bautzen-Bad Schandau railway located station Sebnitz (Sachs) .
From 1952 to 1955, the hoist factory produced the Brigadefreund tractor slewing crane . In the meantime, it was developing a faster slewing car crane as early as 1953. This ADK I / 5 "Panther" was presented in 1954, produced until 1962 and was the basis for numerous further developments. Other crane trucks during this period were the ADK III / 3 "Puma" and the ADK IV / 1.6 . Car slewing cranes were manufactured in Sebnitz until 1970.
Crane construction in Sebnitz was ended by a political decision. Starting in 1968, a change in course in energy policy resulted in a drastic decrease in the need for open-pit mining equipment, so that VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Georgi Dimitroff" Magdeburg had plenty of free capacities and was supposed to produce cranes. Initially, the Magdeburg plant manufactured the ADK 63 from 1969 to 1971. Crane construction in Sebnitz was continued for a transition period of two years. From 1969 to 1971 the Sebnitz hoist plant built the ADK 63-2, the production of which then continued in Magdeburg until 1976.
From 1952 to 1971 the Sebnitz plant had built around 5,000 cranes. Many of them were intended for export. Also the first functional prototype of ADK 100 , which is the basis for the later also in Magdeburg, and in 1974 the VEB Maschinenbau Karl Marx Babelsberg built ADK 125 formed, as well as other prototypes were developed in Sebnitz.
As a result of the relocation of the hoist production to Magdeburg, the hoist plant was assigned to the combine progress agricultural machinery in 1971 . As part of VEB Progress Erntemaschinen Neustadt , it produced, among other things, the swather E 301 and its successor until the fall of the Wall . The factory buildings, in which first paper, then hoists and finally harvesting machines were produced, were demolished in 1993.
On the occasion of the city's 60th anniversary of crane construction, a special exhibition was held in Sebnitz in 2008.
literature
- Saxon predators: cranes from Sebnitz - a socialist success story. In: Historischer Kraftverkehr (2001), 1, pp. 6–11.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Kirsten GmbH & Co KG. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Sebnitz (Sa.). Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ From Kirsten to ABUS - 60 years of crane construction in Sebnitz :. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .