Waggonfabrik Lüttgens

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Waggonfabrik Gebr. Lüttgens (around 1911)
Grave site of the Lüttgens family in the Burbach forest cemetery

The Waggonfabrik Lüttgens was founded on October 6, 1860 by the brothers Leonhard, Andreas and Theodor Lüttgens in Saarbrücken-Burbach in the immediate vicinity of the Burbacher Hütte . The area of ​​the factory site was around 50,000 m².

history

In the first years after the establishment were turnouts and turnout frogs and pits Tram, Erdtransportwagen, drawbridges for the fortification, iron roof structures u. Ä. Manufactured. In 1874, the construction of railway wagons was added, which later developed into the core business of the plant. The plant had a railway connection and direct access to the Saar . The material was transported in the plant itself via a narrow-gauge railway. In 1911 60 to 70 freight wagons could be produced per month . The number of employees at that time was 200 to 250. At the beginning of the 1930s, 80 to 100 freight wagons could be produced per month with 300 employees.

In October 1904 Theodor Lüttgens financed a home for orphans, the Theresienheim in Saarbrücken, in memory of his youngest daughter Theresia, who died at the age of 20. He also donated an amount of 60,000 marks, the interest of which was used to cover current expenses. After Theodor Lüttgen's death, the last surviving company founder, the heirs transformed the company into an open trading company in 1906 and into a GmbH . The company was then called Waggonfabrik Gebrüder Lüttgens GmbH.

During the Third Reich , the plant employed 185 Eastern workers, 51 French (40 prisoners of war and 11 civilian workers) as well as a dozen Dutch and Poles.

In the 1950s, type VT 95 rail buses were built under license for the Saarland Railways (EdS) . In contrast to the original Uerdinger rail bus , the vehicles were equipped with engines from the French manufacturer Berliet instead of Büssing .

In 1969 the last member of the family left the company. The company then went to ARBED SA, Luxembourg and traded as ARBED Gebr. Lüttgens Burbacher Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH . In addition to railroad cars, other steel construction products such as bridges, containers and pipelines were manufactured.

As a result of restructuring and changes of ownership, the company was renamed several times

  • 1971: Röchling-Burbach Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH
  • 1982: Burbacher Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH
  • 1986: Burbach-Homburger Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH
  • 1994: BHSW Burbacher Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH

In 1998 BHSW Burbacher Stahl- und Waggonbau GmbH went bankrupt. In January 2010 the company was renamed Saar Stahlbau GmbH with the mechanical workshops, crane and vehicle workshops and transport operations. Since then, the wagon construction and maintenance, locomotive repair division has been just one of many business areas of Saar Stahlbau.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Company history of Saar Stahlbau GmbH (SSG) on the homepage of Saar Stahlbau GmbH, Saarbrücken
  2. ↑ a b Waggonfabrik Gerüder Lüttgens in: Hoff, Wilhelm (Ed.): The German Railway System of the Present; Part: Vol. 2, p. 271 f. Verlag R. Hobbing, Berlin 1911 Online on the server of the ULB Darmstadt
  3. ^ W. Tesmar: The influence of industry on the development of the city of Saarbrücken. In: Heinrich Kruekemeyer (Hrsg.): 25 years city of Saarbrücken, Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag AG, Saarbrücken 1934; P. 226
  4. ↑ Julius Roth: Daten zur Burbacher Chronik, 2002, online ( Memento from May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Fabian Lemmes: Forced labor in Saarbrücken: City Council, local economy and the use of foreign civilian workers and prisoners of war 1940-1945, Roehrig University Press, 2004, ISBN 9783861103585 . P. 117
  6. ^ Karl Presser and Rainer Freyer: Railways in the Saar State, page 1: SEB / EdS on the Saar nostalgia pages
  7. ↑ a b List of railcar manufacturers

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 16.2 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 47.2 ″  E