United ice cream factories and cold stores in Vienna

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Vereinigte Eisfabriken und Kühlhallen in Vienna, registered cooperative with limited liability

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legal form Limited Liability Cooperative
founding 1898
Seat Vienna
management Roland Pointed Brain
Branch Food and luxury food industry (food industry)
Website www.Eisfabrik-Wien.at

The Vereinigte Eisfabriken and Kühlhallen in Vienna are the oldest still existing ice cream factories in Vienna . The factory is located at Pasettistraße  76 in the 20th district of Brigittenau in Vienna (originally: Vienna II., Leopoldstadt ).

history

Because of the warm winters, the immense increase in ice cream prices and, last but not least, the monopoly of the Krystall-Eis-Fabrik in Vienna, which had existed since 1884 , the Viennese businesses, which were responsible for the city's food supply (approval), founded their own ice cream factory in 1898. The ice factory of the approval trade in Vienna, a registered cooperative with limited liability , was initiated on March 28, 1898 in the Volkshalle of the Vienna City Hall in front of 2,000 interested parties to supply butchers, smokers and innkeepers with natural and artificial ice ( crystal ice ). The six members of the board of directors of the cooperative, which was recorded on May 13, 1898, had to be the following trade representatives: two innkeepers, each with a hotelier, butcher , coffee maker and meat elector, the three substitutes innkeeper, confectioner and poultry or venison traders .

The keystone of the ice factory ( carbonic acid cooling machine system Riedinger ) was laid on December 1, 1898 (occasion: 50 years of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I ), and full operation (daily delivery to 1,600 members of the cooperative) began on April 24, 1899.

Due to the close networking with the commercial enterprises, the ice cream factory quickly became successful and was even able to take over the Viennese Krystall ice cream factory in 1917.

The First World War and the collapse of Austria-Hungary brought difficult times for the company, from which it was able to recover: in the early 1930s, the production of artificial ice reached its peak. In 1931 the production of carbon dioxide and dry ice could also be started.

The first cold store was built between 1939 and 1941, rebuilt, expanded and modernized several times. It is still in operation today. With the entry into the frozen food industry, the company opened a completely new and successful business field, which developed into the most important one for the company.

With the introduction of the electric refrigerator in households and restaurants in the post-war period, the ice cream factory increasingly lost its importance. Ice cream production was therefore scaled back and the focus was finally shifted entirely to storage with the construction of further cold stores and cold stores with high racks. The company thus changed from a production to a service company.

In 2004 a cold store was rebuilt and the storage capacity increased again.

In 2015/16, an extension was built for a new ammonia machine house, a workshop and warehouse, as well as office and social areas. The execution was carried out according to the latest technical and economic standards and offers a high degree of reliability. All pipes and valves were renewed and made of stainless steel. This significantly reduced the energy requirement.

In 2020 one of the largest inner-city photovoltaic systems went into operation. On a roof area of ​​2,250 m², 1,340 modules generate an output of around 425 kWp per year. This means that a substantial part of the energy required can be generated by the user.

Major fire

On the morning of February 28, 1964, a fire broke out in the main building (deep-freeze store) that was being renovated, which ate its way through the cork insulation layer attached to the brickwork of the cold storage rooms and killed two employees trapped on the fourth floor. The fire, which could only be reported as having been extinguished after two days, was the worst in Vienna to date after the fire in the stock exchange building (April 13, 1956).

That of the fourth story of the fire brigade to rescue the trapped people in the outside wall drilled as blasted opening was indeed walled up after the fire event and plastered , but remained until the took place only after 1970 Facade renovation for passengers of passing increased at a distance of 25 meters train as it clearly perceptible as memento mori .

gallery

  • The deep-freeze hall 5

  • The western part of the plant

  • In the center of the facility

  • Double-headed eagle on the administration building

  • Memorial plaque on the administration building

  • Hall in the facility

  • The cold store on the main S-Bahn line

literature

  • 30 years of the United Ice Cream Factory of the Approvisioning Industry in Vienna 1898–1928 . Sn, Vienna 1928, OBV .
  • 1898-1973. 75 years of the United Ice Cream Factory and Kuehlhallen in Vienna reg GenmbH. 1898-1973 . (Festschrift). United ice cream factories and cold stores in Vienna, Vienna 1974, OBV .

Web links

Commons : Vereinigte Eisfabriken und Kühlhallen in Vienna  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Construction news. Vienna. Construction of an ice cream factory for the approval trade. In:  Der Bautechniker , No. 23/1898 (18th year), June 10, 1898, p. 460. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / construction.
  2. ↑ Association news. Assembly of the Approvisioning Trade. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 12068/1898, March 29, 1898, p. 6, column 1 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  3. ^ Company protocols. (...) In the register for cooperatives: (...) Ice factory of the Approvisionirungs-Gewerbe in Vienna, registered cooperative with limited liability. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , No. 114/1898, May 18, 1898, p. 621, column 4 below. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. ↑ Ice factory of the approval trade in Vienna. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , No. 1982/1899 (Volume VII), April 30, 1899, p. 6, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj.
  5. ↑ Not until Monday: fire out. The bodies of the victims of the cold store fire recovered. - You already died unconscious . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 1, 1964, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ The biggest fire in eleven years: The stock exchange - a smoking heap of rubble. Fires and danger of collapse still remain - hundreds are left without a living . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 14, 1956, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  7. ↑ Hannes Baumann, Günther Poidinger , Erwin Rauscher: Large fire: two people locked in after a long struggle given up. Firefighters drilled and blew up the entrance, but the unfortunate could not be helped. - Despite the detonation: The rescuers couldn't get through . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 29, 1964, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ ordeal of witnessing: Earnest B .

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 56.8 ″  N , 16 ° 23 ′ 13.9 ″  E