Zinkweißhütte Bernsdorf

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Zinkweißhütte Bernsdorf
legal form AG , from 1946 VEB
founding 1870
resolution 1991
Seat Bernsdorf and (1911–1946) Blasewitz
Branch Mining industry

The Zinkweißhütte Bernsdorf was an industrial company in Bernsdorf . He was a large German manufacturer of zinc oxide , which produced from 1870 to 1991/93 and between 1911 and 1946 had its headquarters in Blasewitz (since 1921 part of Dresden ). There, powdery zinc oxide was produced from zinc ore. The zinc oxide sold was used, among other things, as a white pigment in paints, as an additive for the production of crystal glass and as a raw material for chemical products.

Company history

Company founder Josef Hermann Dudek (family crypt in the cemetery in Bernsdorf)
View of the Zinkweißhütte in Bernsdorf around 1910 (looking south)

After an inspection tour through Germany, the Upper Silesian metallurgical engineer Josef Hermann Dudek decided in 1869 to buy the former Ludwigshütte glass factory in Bernsdorf and convert it into a zinc and white smelter. He did this even though there were neither skilled workers nor good transport routes in Bernsdorf at the time. There were also no zinc ores to be found nearby. Bernsdorf was then in the district of Hoyerswerda in the Silesian and thus Prussian administrative district of Liegnitz . The company Zinkweiss-Fabrik Ludwigshütte was founded in 1870 and started production in the same year. The zinc ore initially came from Upper Silesia and had to be brought to Bernsdorf by horse and cart from Kamenz or Spremberg . It was not until 1874 that there was a rail connection to the neighboring Saxon town of Straßgräbchen , and later it was also integrated into the coal railroad built by the Saxonia briquette factory in 1884 from today's Zeißholz to Straßgräbchen (the railroad ran on the road through the center of Bernsdorf) and in 1911 its own track Zinkweißhütte (northeast parallel to today's federal highway 97 ). After all, there were open-cast mines nearby from which a supply of lignite could be ensured, including a pit near Zeißholz.

Former administration building in Bernsdorf (as of 2012)

In 1892 Josef Hermann Dudek retired and handed the factory over to his three sons Max, Hugo and Hermann Dudek. Hermann Dudek married the daughter Johanna Emilie (1876–1947) of the architect and mine owner Hermann Rudolph in Teplitz in January 1910 , but died that same year. Hugo Dudek also moved to Teplitz-Schönau in northern Bohemia , near the Settenz zinc-white smelter acquired by JH Dudek Söhne in 1895 (since 1942 incorporated into Teplitz-Schönau; today Řetenice, a district of Teplice). Hugo Dudek Settenz and Teplitz-Schönau left the company JH Dudek Sons in 1940 according to the commercial register of the city of Dresden. Both the Hugo Dudeks house in Teplitz (Forstgasse 15, today Čs. Dobrovolců) and the new factory building in Settenz were built by the Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. Original Teplitz architect Hermann Rudolph designed.

Company headquarters from 1911 until expropriation after the Second World War in Dresden-Blasewitz (status 2018)

In 1911 Max Dudek relocated the company headquarters to the Saxon town of Blasewitz near Dresden to the Villa Moltke, then Johannstrasse 35. The Villa Moltke, on the left at the northeast end of the street and directly on the old towpath of the Elbe, was previously owned by the couple Cäcilie and Heinrich Adolf Mohrhoff , the mayor a. D. von Hoya and founder of the Hoyaschen Provincial-Mobiliar-Feuer-Versicherungsgesellschaft Concordia .

Apparently the Villa Moltke was rebuilt in 1910/11. A demolition or even a new construction of the villa, as indicated in some sources, appears unlikely in view of the complete population. Villa Moltke, which was later also referred to as Villa Dudek, remained the company's headquarters until 1946. Since 1912, it has housed both the office of JH Dudek Söhne and the apartment of Max Dudek and his chauffeur. On April 1, 1921, Blasewitz was incorporated into Dresden . In this context, on July 1, 1926, Johannstrasse was renamed Regerstrasse. At the same time, a reciprocal plot numbering was introduced instead of the previously existing horseshoe numbering . This changed the address of the company villa in Dresden, Regerstraße 2. In the garden of the villa there was a bronze sculpture "Jungfrau mit Hirsch" created in 1918 by Arthur Ernst Berger . Incidentally, Berger also designed the Hermann Rudolph fountain in Oelsnitz. After Max Dudek's death in 1942, Dudek's villa continued to be occupied by his widow Adele.

In 1905, the metallurgical and electrical engineer Rudolf Krauße from the Rhineland zinc smelter Birkengang was hired as the technical director of the Bernsdorf Ludwigshütte. Thanks to him, the hut took off and new modern factory buildings were built. In a major fire in 1912, the old Ludwigshütte was completely destroyed, but the new buildings were spared. After Max Dudek, who was the head of the Bernsdorf office and community from 1896 to 1911, moved to Blasewitz, Krauße was put up as a candidate. He was elected to the local council in 1919 and 1929, but missed his seat in 1924. During the Weimar Republic, the Ludwigshütte in Bernsdorf employed an average of 80 workers.

Max Dudek was an honorary citizen of Bernsdorf and a member or honorary member of numerous local associations. In 1946 the Dudek family was expropriated and the zinc white smelter in Bernsdorf was converted into a state-owned company. At the time of the expropriation, the three widows Adele (from Max), Hildegard (from Hugo) and Johanna Emilie (from Hermann) were still living in Dresden. Until 1950 there was still a Max-Dudek-Straße in Bernsdorf.

Aerial photo (status a few months before the demolition in 2018/2019; view in north direction)

The state-owned company was dissolved in 1991 and the buildings fell into disrepair since the end of production in 1993. The factory buildings of the former zinc white works in Bernsdorf will be torn down from November 2018. The demolition is expected to last until September 2019 and was completed on schedule. The administration building at Hoyerswerdaer Straße 28, which dates from before 1900 and is a listed building (number 09278768), will be preserved, as will a former transformer house that served as a bat quarter.

Sections of JH Dudek Sons

  • Ludwigshütte Bernsdorf
Hermannstollen (start of development in 1900; bottom row, fourth from left: Max Dudek)
  • Hermann tunnel below today's Breitenkopfhütte in Tyrol (mining rights acquired in 1894, development began in 1900, mining ended in 1913)
  • Zinc paint factory Settenz
  • Settenz zinc works
  • Zinc rolling mill in Settenz
  • Ore processing Settenz
  • Settenz aluminum sulfate works
  • Ore roasting and sintering plant Aussig (today Ústí nad Labem )
  • Lignite mining Jaroslaw-Schacht Widobl (today Vidovle, a district of Bitozeves )
  • Lignite mining Hugo-Schacht Settenz with smoldering coking plant
  • Lead and zinc ore union Gabe Gottes Zeche zu Mährisch Karlsdorf (today Moravský Karlov, a district of Červená Voda ) (administrative headquarters Aussig)
    • with the gift of God Schacht Neudorf / Altvater (today Nová Ves, a district of Dolní Moravice )
  • Kutterschitz zinc smelter (today Chudeřice, a district of Bílina ) with the Kutterschitz plant zinc smelter joint venture and the Kutterschitz industrial plant

Web links

Commons : VEB Zinkweißhütte Bernsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Hermann Dudek (* November 17, 1833; † December 10, 1911)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Günter Meusel: History of the city of Bernsdorf. Volume I. Lausitz Printing and Publishing, Cottbus 2000.
  3. ↑ Max Hermann Georg Dudek (* February 28, 1861 in Schoppinitz, Upper Silesia (today Szopienice , a district of Katowice ); † November 2, 1942 in Dresden-Blasewitz)
  4. ↑ Full name Arthur Hugo Curt Dudek
  5. ^ A b c Günter Meusel: History of the city of Bernsdorf. Volume III. Lausitz Printing and Publishing, Cottbus 2005.
  6. ↑ Johanna Emilie Rudolph (born January 16, 1876 in Teplitz (Bohemia); † January 17, 1947 in Dresden) lived according to the Dresden address book from 1943 at Gautschweg 2; after the war until her death in Loschwitzer Straße 18 and died in Alttolkewitz 10.
  7. ↑ The chemical industry. Berlin 1940. 63 (48) page 706.
  8. ^ Entries in the address books of Teplitz-Schönau for the years 1910, 1912 and 1930
  9. ↑ Mareen Czekalla: Scientific historical and mineralogical investigations on the mineral collection of Dr. Richard Baldauf (1848-1931). Dissertation Technical University of Dresden 2011. Appendix volume page 14.
  10. ↑ Named after a previous owner of the villa who, according to the Blasewitz address books, lived there from 1884 to 1892 (then Johannstrasse 1, from 1892 Johannstrasse 33): Henry von Burt (born January 15, 1841) (Major z. D. ); a brother-in-law and nephew of Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke , because he was a son of Moltke's sister Auguste von Burt (1809-1883) and stepbrother of Moltke's wife Marie nee Burt (1826-1888).
  11. ↑ GND entry on Henry von Burt
  12. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1911. Page 31.
  13. ^ A b Barbara Bechter: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Part: Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin Munich 2005. Page 149. ISBN 978-3-422-03110-4
  14. ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1912. Page 31, as well as the address book issues of the following years.
  15. ^ Dispute over Villa Moltke. Dresdner Morgenpost 1996.
  16. ↑ Lars Herrmann: Streets and Squares in Blasewitz (accessed on July 31, 2018)
  17. ↑ Rudolphine Adele Dudek née Krauße (born November 8, 1867 in Plauen ; † February 17, 1947 in Dresden); last lived at Loschwitzer Strasse 21. Father: Post Director Friedrich Rudolph Krauße (Kamenz); Mother: Sidonie Thekla née Roßbach (Kamenz)
  18. ^ Address book of the district and state capital Dresden, Freital-Radebeul, with surrounding 6 cities 1943/44. Page 659.
  19. ^ A b c Günter Meusel: History of the city of Bernsdorf. Volume II. Lausitz Printing and Publishing, Cottbus 2003.
  20. ↑ Hildegard Dudek, née Müller, lived in Dresden in 1947, Barlachstrasse 11. She survived the other two widows who died in January and February 1947.
  21. ↑ Ralf Grunert: Zinkweißhütte is "an expendable property" . Sächsische Zeitung of June 23, 2018 (accessed July 25, 2018)
  22. ↑ Anja Hummel: zinc white fallow: ruins demolition in Bernsdorf . Lausitzer Rundschau online from November 2, 2018 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  23. ↑ Zinkweißbrache: first stage done (Lausitzer Rundschau online, accessed on September 29, 2019)
  24. ↑ Ralf Grunert: Start of demolition at the Zinkweißhütte . Sächsische Zeitung of October 20, 2018 (accessed November 8, 2018)
  25. ↑ Ralf Grunert: Zinkweißhütte in Bernsdorf is history. Sächsische Zeitung (accessed September 29, 2019)

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 48.8 "  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 41.6"  E