Volkswagen factory in Zwickau

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Volkswagen factory in Zwickau

The Volkswagen plant in Zwickau is a Saxon automobile plant that was founded on September 26, 1990 in what is now the Moselle district of Zwickau and, together with the Chemnitz engine plant and the Dresden Transparent Factory, belongs to Volkswagen-Sachsen GmbH based in Zwickau. In spring 2019, the Zwickau plant had around 8,000 employees. Since June 27, 2020, the plant has stopped producing vehicles with internal combustion engines.

history

Helmut Kohl and Carl H. Hahn (left) laying the foundation stone of the VW Mosel plant on September 26, 1990

With the founding of the Horch and Audi plants in 1904 and 1909, Zwickau became the cradle of the Saxon automotive industry . Because of the tradition of automobile construction in the region and because of the potential of skilled workers, Volkswagen was the first large company in Germany to decide to build a new plant in Saxony and invested large sums in it. As a result, more companies settled in the region.

As early as the end of the GDR , the Trabant 1.1 was built in the northern Zwickau suburb of Mosel from 1989 onwards with a four-cylinder four-stroke engine manufactured under a VW license. Production was discontinued in 1991, as series production of the VW Polo II had already started on May 21, 1990 at the Mosel plant. On February 15, 1991, parallel to Polo production, production of the Golf II began , the successor of which was produced in the Zwickau plant until mid-2020. The suburb of Moselle was incorporated into Zwickau in 1999. In 2007, the new factory name Volkswagen-Fahrzeugwerk Zwickau was officially introduced .

A total of around 3.7 million Volkswagens have been delivered since production started in 1990. In 2010, 1,350 vehicles from the VW Golf and Passat model series left the VW plant every day . A record result was achieved in 2010 with 250,000 vehicles. In addition, there are the bodies for the luxury class vehicles Phaeton and Bentley Continental GT , which were completely painted with special transporters and delivered to the “ Gläserne Manufaktur ” Dresden or Crewe in Great Britain . A total of around 100,000 bodies have been manufactured for the VW Phaeton and the Bentley Continental series (50,000 each) since 2001 . The Zwickau plant has also been producing bodies for the Bentley Bentayga since 2017 and bodies for the Lamborghini Urus since 2018 .

On May 11, 2004, the celebratory event for the 100th anniversary of the founding of A. Horch & Cie. Motorwagenwerke AG Zwickau . High-ranking people from politics and business paid tribute to the scientific and technical achievements of the automobile manufacturers in Southwest Saxony in their greetings.

A factory of the supplier GKN Driveline is located directly adjacent .

In 2019, work began on converting the plant entirely to the production of electric cars . The VW ID.3 has been in series production at the plant since the end of 2019 . On June 26, 2020 after 116 years rolled the last vehicle with internal combustion engine , a golf, from the band . After the conversion of the production lines, the VW ID.3 (with an increased number of items), VW ID. 4 and the Audi Q4 e-tron are produced.

Current products

  • VW ID.3

  • Lamborghini Urus (body)

  • Bentley Bentayga (body)

literature

  • Philipp Hessinger u. a .: focus and balance. Establishment and growth of industrial networks. Using the example of VW / Zwickau, Jenoptik / Jena and rail vehicle construction / Saxony-Anhalt. Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000, ISBN 3-531-13517-1 .

Web links

Commons : Volkswagenwerk Zwickau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.volkswagen-sachsen.de: Overview of facts and figures. (Accessed March 12, 2019)
  2. ↑ The last combustion engine rolled off the production line in Zwickau
  3. ↑ Broadcast of the MDR from the festive event "100 Years of Automobile Construction in Zwickau" on May 11, 2004 in Zwickau
  4. ↑ Press release from Volkswagen AG , accessed on February 17, 2016
  5. ↑ Saxon Ministry of Economics and Labor  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.smwa.sachsen.de  
  6. ↑ Zwickau has been the cradle of the Saxon automotive industry for 114 years. By 2020, Volkswagen will develop the location into Europe's largest competence center for electromobility. A chronicle. volkswagen-newsroom.com, accessed on November 14, 2018
  7. ↑ Full of electricity (er): VW turns its plant in Zwickau inside out. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 13.9 ″  E