Lägern cement factory

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Portland cement factory Lägern
legal form Corporation
founding 1894
resolution 1902
Reason for dissolution bankruptcy
Seat Oberehrendingen , SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
Number of employees 400
Branch Building material

The cement factory warehouses was a company in Ehrendingen in the Swiss canton of Aargau , which the lime - and clay marl occur the warehouses degraded and from cement produced.

history

Lägern cement factory, in the background the cable car to Niederweningen
Niederweningen loading station for the Lägern cement factory cable car
Location map of the Lägern cement factory and its cable car, map background 2017

The gypsum deposits on the Lägern have been mined since the Middle Ages and ground in the mills in the village and in the Tiefenwaag. With the increase in demand for building materials at the end of the 19th century, Reinhard Frei & Co. was founded in 1892/93 to produce cement on an industrial scale. The company was converted into a public limited company in 1894. A factory was built employing up to 400 workers, around 250 of whom were foreign workers.

In 1896, a 3.8 kilometer long electrically operated Lorenseilbahn between the factory and the Niederweningen station of the Wehntalbahn was put into operation. This station was renamed Niederweningen Dorf when the Wehntalbahn was extended in 1938 . The cable car served on the one hand to bring the coal for the cement kilns to the factory and on the other hand to carry away the finished products. A trolley from the cable car carried around 300 kg of material. The cable car was built by Fritz Marti in Winterthur , who represented the German J. Pohlig AG for Switzerland and Italy. The bicable ropeway used weight lever couplings to connect the trolleys to the haul rope . In this system, the screw clamp that connects the trolley to the rope is operated by a weight lever. The lever was overturned in the end stations by guide rails. In 1897 there was an electrical accident in the drive motor of the cable car, killing two workers.

The cement factory in Lägern was already heavily in debt in 1899 and had to file for bankruptcy in 1902 . The whole plant was bought up by the Jura-Cement-Fabriken , a competitor of the Lägern cement factory, and production was discontinued. In 1904 the entire factory area was sold to the Bertschinger brothers  in Wallisellen, whereby the area was burdened with a servitude that it could no longer be used for the production of cement, lime or other binding agents.

In 1909 the building of the cement factory were a sapper blown Kompagnie; only the administration building remained. The material ropeway was sold to Gottlieb Spühler's cement factory in Rekingen and used there.

Preserved buildings and remains

In addition to the former administration building at Gipsstrasse 55, the buildings of the two former restaurants Eintracht (Gipsstrasse 53) and Frohsinn (Gipsstrasse 60) have been preserved. There is also a workers' house at Gipsstrasse 44, which was popularly known as the Windleburg because of the large families and the resulting large number of cloth diapers that were hung up to dry .

Web links

Commons : Lägern cement factory  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Cyprian Schnoz: The cable car from Niederweningen - a short piece of industrial history . In: Zürcher Unterländer . February 4, 2016 ( zuonline.ch [accessed December 26, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Advertisement: Opportunity purchase: Lägern cement factory . In: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Ed.): Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt . tape 20 , no. 341 , 1902, pp. 1363 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  4. ↑ Otto's cable cars . Listing. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 26 , no. October 14 , 5, 1895 ( ETH e-periodica ).
  5. ↑ Heinrich Aumund : Lifting and handling equipment: . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : General arrangement and use. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1926, ISBN 978-3-642-50697-0 , p. 157–158 ( Google Books [accessed December 27, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b Reinhard Frei & Co. cement factory. In: Database Industrial Culture. VAMUS, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Office building of the cement factory. In: Online inventory of the Aargau Cantonal Preservation of Monuments. Canton of Aargau, 2014, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Former Restaurant "Zur Frohburg". In: Online inventory of the Aargau Cantonal Preservation of Monuments. Canton of Aargau, 2014, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  9. ^ Workers' house in the cement factory (dismissed). In: Online inventory of the Aargau Cantonal Preservation of Monuments. Canton of Aargau, 2014, accessed December 26, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Jolanda Hasler: Did you still know? Where 44 children once lived . In: Ehrendinger . No. November 24 , 2009 ( pdf ).