Heilbronn sugar factory

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Heilbronn, sugar factory on the Rosenberg
Plan from 1867 with drawing of a planned steam crane in 1894 (existing buildings before the major fire of the sugar factory in May 1913).
Painting of the Heilbronner Neckarpartie by Fritz Bergen around 1900, in the background you can see the chimneys of the sugar factory.

The Heilbronn sugar factory consisted of several generations of factory buildings that existed from 1853 to 1971. In its place is now the Rosenberg high-rise , which at 58 meters is the tallest residential building in Heilbronn (as of 2012). The company belonged to the Süddeutsche Zucker AG .

history

The building of the beet sugar factory was completed by the city of Heilbronn on October 15, 1853. The production of sugar began on January 15, 1855. In 1913, the Süddeutsche Zuckerfabriken merged to form a beet acquisition association with a joint purchase. In 1926, the Süddeutsche Zucker Aktiengesellschaft was formed, to which the Heilbronn sugar factory belonged. The building consisted of a main building about 125 meters long and almost 20 meters wide with two wings. Nine boilers operated six steam engines of 99 hp , which processed up to 400,000 quintals of beets. A 55 meter high chimney towered over the factory. A 1.4 kilometer long cable car ran across the Neckar to the freight station, which transported 30 wagons of beet to the factory every day. After the Bottwartalbahn was built, the Heilbronn sugar factory on the Rosenberg received its own siding and assumed a steep upward trend. The factory burned down on May 22, 1913, the damage amounted to 1.9 million marks. On September 22, 1913, the city decided to rebuild the sugar factory, architecturally more elaborate and much larger, on the old square on Rosenberg and with a connection to Heilbronn Südbahnhof and the indispensable Bottwartalbahn. The building showed various architectural details that were borrowed from the classical school of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Friedrich Weinbrenner :

"The core of the system with the pyramid roofs with steps, the two growing out assemblies with hip roof , the nave manner previously set transverse buildings which the roof brick facade under articulating pilasters and the lunette is on the Schinkel and wine burner succession of industrial buildings of the 19th century, which the functional structures Want to give something aesthetic in their outer style elements borrowed from the various art epochs, the entire complex in its artful structure from the outside to the inside forms a closed unit. "

A view of the Heilbronn sugar factory around 1865 was recorded in a pencil drawing by Johannes Läpple in ALBUM FROM HEILBRONN ... XII Views of Nature ... drawn by J. Läpple and lithographed by E. Emminger . The view of the sugar factory from Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke was also the subject of photographs and lithographs, for example by Fritz Bergen . The factory building was only slightly damaged in the Second World War and was able to continue its successful operation after reconstruction. In 1956 the large diffusion tower , also known as the leach tower, was built, where the juice was extracted from the beets. With a diameter of 4.5 meters, it was 24 meters high. In 1971 the sugar factory relocated its Heilbronn plant to Offenau . The factory buildings were demolished and a new residential town was built on the site. The high-rise near the Rosenberg housing estate was inaugurated on Friday, May 20, 1973 after a year and a half of construction.

Sugar factory directors (selection)

  • C. Schwanitz, technical director in 1853
  • Karl Mayer , agricultural director from 1891 to 1901 (previously agricultural inspector from 1869)
  • Adolf von Marchtaler (1840–1902), director

literature

  • Wolfgang Martin: About sugar and its production in the Heilbronn sugar factory . In: Not a beautiful country . No. 3 , March 23, 1957, p. 4 .

Web links

Commons : Zuckerfabrik Heilbronn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn with Böckingen, Neckargartach, Sontheim. The old city in words and pictures . Volume 2 (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . No. 15 ). Konrad, Weißenhorn 1967, OCLC 162217708 , p. 41 .
  2. Zuckerfabrik Heilbronn Akt.-Ges. at albert-gieseler.de (accessed on September 27, 2018)
  3. For him see the article in the German biography [1] .

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 7.4 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 48.6 ″  E