Anton Merz weaving mill

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The Anton Merz weaving mill was a wool weaving mill in Greiz , Thuringia .

history

The Anton Merz company was founded in Greiz in 1836 by Anton Merz (1806–1872) as a trading post, which later, under his son Carl Anton Merz (1831–1891), focused on the production of pure wool women’s clothing, costume and men’s fabrics. In 1855 the company is listed in a source instruction on the purchase and sale of commercial goods with special consideration of the patriotic industry as a handbook and adviser for merchants, manufacturers and traders as a Thibet and woolen goods manufacturer by Anton Merz in Greiz in Voigtlande with the naming of the exhibition stand in Leipzig and Braunschweig.

Merz was an important person for Greiz and held a number of offices, including a. he was a member of the German Reichstag for three years. In 1892 the company had 160 employees. The company was continued by Albin Merz and his wife Jenny, who was entered in the address book as a businessman in 1892, and their son Anton Gustav Albin Armin Merz (1873–1932). The company went bankrupt in 1929.

Corporate and residential buildings

The company's factory, which was built later, is located at Zeulenrodaer Straße 42-44 (previously No. 16) in Greiz.

After the bankruptcy, the company Heyer & Co. took over the area. This turned the weaving mill into a "luxury card factory" (address book 1930). In 1932, however, the paper processing Johannes Förster in the buildings can already be proven. From 1953 the VEB Buch- und Stahlstichdruck was located in the building, the successor of which is now in Pohlitz.

The company buildings are under monument protection.

Anton Merz's villa is located on von-Westernhagen-Platz 5, then Marienplatz, and was later used for various purposes. A younger villa is located high above the mouth of the Göltzsch near the "Schönsicht" on Frauenlobstraße 1; other family members lived in a house very close (Haus Schönsicht).

  • Entry in 1855 in the trade manual

present

The factory of the former company has been renovated and is largely preserved. Today it houses the Textile Research Institute Thuringia-Vogtland eV

literature

  • Dietfried Köhler: The historical-geographical development of the industry of the Greiz district - with special consideration of the development of the city of Greiz. Inaugural dissertation: Greiz, 1968. Greiz City and District Library
  • District of Greiz (publisher District Office District of Greiz): Villas, town houses and commercial buildings in the district of Greiz Druckerei Tischendorf, Greiz, 2011
  • “The history of the Greiz textile industry: bloom and decline” - developed by Günter Kanis, Ursula Frosch and Monika Bucksch. Greiz 1992/93, published in 3 issues of the "Heimatbote" 1994/1995

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference to sources on reference and sales ... , Leipzig, Literatur-Bureau, 1855
  2. ↑ http://www.reichstag-abuellerdatenbank.de/selectmaske.html?pnd=133979210&recherche=ja database Reichstag
  3. ^ Anita Waldmann in Greizer Bilderbogen , Greizer Heimatkalender
  4. ↑ Greiz Monument List March 1, 2002. (No longer available online.) In: Official Journal Greiz No. 6 2002. June 7, 2002, formerly in the original ; accessed on August 28, 2015 .  ( 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 / reussischefuerstenstrasse.de  
  5. ↑ http://www.titv-greiz.de/ Textilforschungsinstitut Thüringen-Vogtland eV