Vesta sewing machine works
The Vesta sewing machine works were an open trading company for the production of sewing machines , which was founded by Leopold Oskar Dietrich in Altenburg ( Thuringia ) in 1875 .
history
On July 1, 1871, the three journeyman locksmiths Leopold Oskar Dietrich, Hermann Köhler and Gustav Winselmann founded a workshop for the production of sewing machines in Altenburg under the name Dietrich & Co. On January 6, 1872 the first sewing machine was completed under the name Allemannia , At the end of the same year there were already 300 pieces.
In 1873, two years after the workshop was founded, Dietrich resigned and opened a sewing machine shop with rental on Sporenstrasse. The company was renamed Köhler und Winselmann and moved to larger premises in 1877.
In 1891, Winselmann also became independent, who set up his own factory in 1892 and, since 1902, has operated as Gustav Winselmann GmbH , where Titan was produced. The company expanded in 1900, 1914 and 1925/26 until it employed 233 people in 1927. After the Second World War, Winselmann's company was closed and first a food manufacturer moved in, followed by the Leipzig Construction Combine in the mid-1950s.
The Hermann Köhler AG expanded in the years 1897/98 and provided sewing machines under the name Kohler ago. In 1922 a joinery was bought in Pößneck , and in 1923 an iron foundry in Zeulenroda was incorporated . In 1927 the number of employees was 800.
LO Dietrich founded the Vesta sewing machine works in 1875 and relocated production in 1880 to the new building that had started a year earlier. Extensions were built in 1908 and 1912/13. In 1927, 1252 people were employed. The company was nationalized after the end of the Second World War and in 1948 incorporated into the VEB Sewing Machine Works Altenburg (sewing machine factory Köhler), which had been in existence since 1947 .
Locations
The workshop of the three locksmiths, which was set up in 1871, was located in the Meuschke brush factory . Köhler and Winselmann moved to Kotteritzerstraße (today's Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße ) in 1877 , where a new one was built opposite the old plant in 1897/98, which was torn away in 2011.
The location of Gustav Winselmann GmbH was the Zwickau road, built in a former hat factory in 1880 for the 1,892th Today it is home to the commercial center financed by the Altenburger Land district , the MHW Karree .
LO Dietrich moved to Wilhelmstrasse (today's Dostojewskistrasse ) in 1875 . Five years later, production was moved to Ziegelstrasse (today's Franz-Mehring-Strasse / corner of Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse ). The area is home to the Alte Fabrik business park , which includes the Gumpert sports car manufacturer .
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The production output in 1872 was 400, in 1900 it was 111,900.
By 1940 more than 2 million Vesta sewing machines had already been produced. At that time the production possibilities were around 500 sewing machines a day. The plant had its own iron foundry, a cabinet maker and its own power plant with 1700 hp. It had an area of 135,000 m².
Web links and literature
- History of the Altenburg sewing machine industry on geo.viaregia.org
- Heinrich Mock: The economic development of the city of Altenburg. Stephan Geibel Verlag, Altenburg 1929
- Fritz Sagel: The Altenburg sewing machine industry. Inaugural dissertation of the high philosophical faculty of the University of Jena to obtain the doctorate, Altenburg 1911
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief information on sewing machine production at http://geo.viaregia.org
- ^ State Archive Leipzig ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Project by Sieghardt Rydzewski on altenburg.tv ( memento of the original from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ MHW-Karree on altenburg.tv ( Memento of the original from December 7th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Altenburg history sheets Altenburg art and culture in the 19th century Lindenau Museum Altenburg 1992
- ↑ Textbook on the use of the Centralschiff sewing machine for the “Vesta ZZ 302” model, in the period 1938–1940
- ↑ Advertising brochure Dream becomes reality for the "Vesta ZZ 302" model and its variants, in the period 1938–1940
