Zeisser, Habiger & Comp.
Zeisser, Habiger & Comp. was a chandelier and art bronze factory in Vienna .
history
The beginnings of the factory go back to the year 1892, when the production of chandeliers and bronzes was started under the Anton Zeisser company in Vienna. The increasing popularity of the products and the resulting increase in sales from year to year made it appear advisable to undertake a thorough remodeling and enlargement of the factory rooms and the entire business.
For this purpose the company Zeisser, Habiger & Comp. founded (later: Society for lighting fixtures, formerly Zeisser, Habiger & Comp. ). The factory was relocated to Neustiftgasse 72 in the 7th district and equipped with the most modern facilities. The operating power was taken from the cable network of the Wiener Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (WEG) and fed to numerous electric motors , the work rooms were electrically illuminated. A fire alarm system was also installed in order to provide rapid assistance in the event of a fire hazard.
The factory that we moved into in 1894 fully justified our expectations, as 300 people were already working there by the middle of 1898 and the sales area for the products expanded from year to year.
The workplaces included the sculptor and drawing studio , where the contemporary and artistically appropriate designs were created for the work, which secured the company a place in the Austrian art industry. The rest of the workrooms were workshops for the various trades that were used in manufacturing . The factory's products were primarily lighting fixtures and chandeliers for electric and gas light , as well as candle lighting, as well as artificial bronze, English brass bedsteads and luxury bronze furniture .
The lighting fixtures for electric light in particular enjoyed a world-wide reputation, and the company had a not insignificant export to Germany , England , Russia , Romania , North America , Spain , Japan , Transvaal and Manila . Among the larger deliveries of lighting fixtures for electric light were the installations for several archducal palaces , embassies and ministries in Vienna, as well as for large hotel complexes such as the Grand Hotel and Hotel Krantz in Vienna, the Central Hotel in Baden near Vienna , and Hotel Austria in Gries , the Grand Hotel in Brno , Hotel Metropole in Budapest and others.
The Austrian delegation building and the Hungarian Chamber of Lawyers in Budapest, the Bohemian Sparcassa in Prague, the town halls in Friedland and Sarajevo , the University of Graz , the Sparcassa in Graz, the train station in Stanislau , the Maican Theater in Bucharest , the Kurhaus in Meran , the City of Vienna's pavilion in the 1898 anniversary exhibition and many others.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Zeisser, Habiger & Comp. In: Presented by the industrialists of Austria under the high protectorate of His K. and K. Highness of the Most Serene Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Hrsg.): Die Groß-Industrie Oesterreichs . Festival ceremony for the glorious fiftieth anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I. Volume 2 . Leopold Weiss, Vienna 1898, III. Metal industry, p. 396 .
- ↑ working order of the Society of Lighting formerly Zeisser, Habiger & Comp. Vienna VII. Neustiftgasse 72. Valid from July 15, 1910 onwards . Chr (istoph) Reisser's Sons , Vienna 1910.