Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Coal Works AG
| Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerk Aktiengesellschaft | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1856 (as Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerks- und Eisenbahngesellschaft AG ) |
| resolution | 1996 |
| Seat | Vienna / Linz , Wolfsegg am Hausruck |
| Branch | Coal mining |
The Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerks AG (WTK) was a mining company in Hausruck , Upper Austria, which operated the mining of lignite .
Company history
At the end of the 18th century, the mining of brown coal began in Hausruck. By merging the mine holdings of Alois Miesbach , Rothschild and Count Julien-Wallsee, the Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerks- und Eisenbahngesellschaft AG was created in 1856, with its headquarters in Vienna and a factory in Wolfsegg am Hausruck . In 1870 the WTK acquired the mining of Count Arco ( Windischhub , Hausruckedt and Eberschwang ) and thus de facto the entire mining in Hausruck was in the hands of the WTK. After several changes of ownership, the State of Upper Austria and the State of Austria took a stake in WTK AG in 1919, and in 1946 it was nationalized .
In 1955, 1963 and 1964 over a million tons of brown coal were mined each. From the mid-1920s, most of the lignite in the municipality of Ampflwang in the Hausruckwald was mined and burned in the newly built Timelkam power plant 18 kilometers away .
After decommissioning was decided in 1992, mining was stopped in 1995. In 1996 the company was sold to private companies, which mined small quantities of house coal (3.5 t) and processed it into briquettes. This company filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and in 2007 it went bankrupt with EUR 9.1 million.
Today, for example, the facilities in Wolfsegg- Kohlgrube are used as an industrial monument and event location. At the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition in 2006 with the theme of coal and steam , the former central sorting and other buildings on the site were adapted to display objects.
literature
- Hannes Koch: Ampflwang in the Hausruckwald and the operation of Wolfsegg Traunthaler Kohlenwerk AG . Graduate degree Univ. Ed .: Kepler University. Linz 2000 (coal mining and coal mine 1807–2000).
- Dagmar Ulm: The history of the Wolfsegg-Traunthaler-Kohlenwerks-Aktiengesellschaft. An analysis of the business reports 1945–1985 . Thesis. Ed .: Kepler University. Linz 2003 (Affects, inter alia, Wolfsegg am Hausruck, Ottnang am Hausruck and Geboltskirchen, but also Linz company headquarters).
- oA: The lignite mines of the Wolfsegg-Traunthaler coal works and railway company in the Hausruck Mountains in Upper Austria . To explain the overview map of the storage and operating conditions exposed at the Vienna World Exhibition. In: Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Berg- und Hüttenwesen . tape XXI. , a) Topographical and geological conditions p. 248–250, b) Characteristics of coal and use , c) History of mining p. 256–257, d) Mining p. 264–266, e) Transport conditions p. 272–273, S. 248-273 (about 1873).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst-Werner Dumjahn: History of the Hausruck coal mining . ( dumjahn.de [PDF] excerpt from Dumjahn's manual of railway literature ).
- ↑ Josef Binder: Brown coal from the house jerk. 100 years of Wolfsegg-Traunthaler coal works . In: Good luck! Works magazine d. Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Coal Works AG. No. 39 . Linz 1955, p. 4-6 .
- ^ Community Wolfsegg: The coal mining in Hausruck.
- ↑ Edith Konrad u. a., WTK-Coal Education and Support Association (Ed.): 10 Years of the WTK- Coal Foundation 1989–1999 . Documentation about successful crisis management. 1st edition. Ampflwang 1999.
- ↑ KSV : Corporate Insolvencies 1st Quarter 2007 ( Memento from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
- ↑ Sandra Tretter: Cultural use of industrial monuments in rural areas based on the model Kunstraum Kohlgrube in Wolfsegg am Hausruck . Master thesis Univ. for ang. Art. Ed .: University of Applied Arts. Vienna 2004.