Weaving mill Gebr. Albert
The Gebr. Albert KG was a wool and silk weaving in Greiz , Thuringia .
history
The Gebr. Albert company was founded in 1860 by Carl (or Karl) Heinrich Albert (1817–1864) in Greiz as a wool and silk weaving mill specializing in the production of high-quality costume and clothing fabrics. Since 1865 it traded under the name of Gebr. Albert KG with Ernst Louis Albert (1843–1915) and Wilhelm Otto Albert sen. (1850–1932) as owner. In 1886 the company had 110 and in 1920 240 employees. The company's successors were Otto Albert jun. (1873-1953) and Curt (Kurt) Albert.
The company owned three tubular boilers from Sulzberger, Flöha and two steam engines from Zwickauer Maschinenfabrik with 140 and 210 hp. Around 1900 around 1000 looms were in use. Later, new looms from the Greizer companies Otto and Werler & Steinert were purchased, the steam engines were used to generate (rotary) electricity so that the weaving machines, which had meanwhile been converted to individual drives, could be operated independently.
In 1939 the company got into trouble because of a "racial problem" of Otto Alberts' son-in-law, and the exclusion could not compensate for the entry of another, probably "Aryan" son-in-law, so that outside companies were assigned to the building. In 1945, when the Americans marched in, the weaving hall burned down from a shell hit. With 140 rescued looms, a new beginning was attempted, which succeeded more badly than well. In 1947 Otto Albert's son-in-law died.
Between 1947 and 1955, the premises of Ing. K. Weiß (later "Feutron") and the Förster company, paper processing, were used. Albert was expropriated in 1949 , the last of the general partners left the GDR in 1952 and the company was transferred to the newly founded VEB Novotex on January 1, 1953 and named "Werk V". During this time, the road traffic in Adelheidstr. The corner of the web hall that was lying on the other side was demolished and an additional trolleybus garage was built there. In 1970, operations in the VEB Greika opened as "Plant VI / 4" as a central prefabricated warehouse.
Corporate and residential buildings
The company was located at Idastraße 59-61 (today August-Bebel-Straße) in Greiz. After applications, persistent negotiations and disappointments (see Greika ) that had taken place since 1990, the building and property were returned to the descendants. The ensemble is a listed building. The majority of the factory (first, probably older company building and weaving hall) is no longer preserved after fires and demolitions. The only remaining building shown below was built in 1889.
Ernst Albert acquired the Villa Carl Kermann at Carolinenstrasse 55 in Greizer Neustadt in 1885. In 1960 the building was blown up , allegedly because of sponge infestation .
Otto Albert senior's villa is located at Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 58 in Greizer Neustadt. In 1937 Kurt Albert, the weaver's owner, is registered as a resident.
Otto Albert jun. is located at Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 10. The very representative building was built in 1909 by the famous architects Lossow & Kühne from Dresden . B. also constructed the Leipzig main station . After the expropriation, the building was the seat of the Soviet military command, then a retirement home . The building is a historical monument.
present
The existing factory building including company premises is used as an antique trade, GDR museum and antiquarian bookshop as well as an authorized car workshop (as of 2015). In August 2015, another fire destroyed large parts of the roof structure and the second floor of the only remaining building.
The Villa Otto Albert jr. was restored and has been the headquarters of a company for IT services since 2013 .
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
- "The history of the Greiz textile industry: flowering and decay" - developed by Günter Kanis, Ursula Frosch and Monika Bucksch. Greiz 1992/93, published in 3 issues of the "Heimatbote" 1994/1995
- District of Greiz (publisher District Office District of Greiz): Villas, town houses and commercial buildings in the district of Greiz, Druckerei Tischendorf, Greiz, 2011
- Greizer Heimatkalender 2002, p. 151–153: On the history of Gebr. Albert KG in Greiz by Christian Pfeifer, Druckerei Tischendorf, Greiz, 2001
Web links
- Museums Greiz
- www.greiz-gruenderzeit.de
- Textile demonstration workshop
- Historical address book city of Greiz
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b List of monuments Greiz 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.
- ↑ The story goes up in flames: Major fire in the former Greika building in Greiz. In: OTZ . August 4, 2015, accessed August 15, 2015 .
