Württemberg linen industry

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Württembergische Leinenindustrie AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1560
resolution October 18, 2012
Reason for dissolution merger
Seat Blaubeuren , Germany
Branch Holdings
Website wuerttembergische-leinenindustrie.de

The Württembergische linen industry AG (WLI), headquartered in Blaubeuren is a former textile company . Since 1975 the business activity has been limited to the tax-efficient asset management of real estate and financial investments of the Merckle family .

history

The manufacture of linen in the room Blaubeuren occupied since 1560th The company goes back to several predecessor companies. The Blaubeurer Bleich Sozietät , founded in 1726, received an unrestricted canvas trading privilege from Duke Eberhard Ludwig in 1729 . The brothers Johannes and Andreas Lang and other partners ran the Blaubeurer Bleiche as a canvas publisher for the Bleichsozietät. In 1748 Andreas Lang became the sole owner, in 1760 his son Johannes Lang. His son Andreas Friedrich Lang renamed the company AF Lang . In 1864, Carl and Eduard Lang set up the mechanical linen weaving mill in Blaubeuren for the production of bed sheets, table linen and towels. From the merger of the three companies Blaubeurer Bleiche , Mechanische Leinenweberei Blaubeuren and Württembergische Leinenweberei Hoffmann & Co in Laichingen (the latter founded at the beginning of the 1850s), the Württembergische Leinenindustrie AG was created in 1882 .

Production ended in 1975. Since then, income has been generated from the renting or leasing of commercial properties, rental residential properties, a fishing lake and agricultural land, as well as the sale of electricity from a small hydropower plant in the former linen factory.

With effect from October 17, 2012, the merger with VEM Vermögensverwaltung Aktiengesellschaft took place. In the same breath, the minority shareholders were excluded in exchange for cash compensation. The company no longer exists and has been deleted from the commercial register.

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  1. ↑ Baden-Württemberg - A local and regional history . Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-12-281200-2
  2. ↑ pantel-web.de: History BW - trade, commerce and industry , access 10 July 2010
  3. ↑ The “Kompagniebuch” of the bleaching society from 1726 is available in the main state archive in Stuttgart ( inventory E 221 I Bü 4198 ).
  4. ↑ More about the AF Lang company can be found in the treatise by Ludwig Vischer: The industrial development in the Kingdom of Württemberg and the work of its central office for trade and commerce in its first 25 years . Stuttgart: Grüninger, 1875. (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  5. ↑ Further information on the history of weaving mills in Laichingen can be found in the Laichingen Weaving and Local History Museum and from Günther Mayer: Linen Industry and Agriculture in Laichingen, Münsingen district (Württemberg) . Würzburg-Aumühle, 1939 (both political and economic dissertation, Heidelberg University, 1940).
  6. ↑ Half-yearly financial report as of June 30, 2008
  7. ↑ Württembergische Leinenindustrie AG: Ad-hoc announcement: Exclusion of minority shareholders and merger of Württembergische Leinenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft with VEM Vermögensverwaltung Aktiengesellschaft effective. (PDF) October 17, 2012, accessed January 21, 2013 .
  8. ↑ www.handelsregister.de , accessed on March 18, 2013