Jülich sugar factory

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The Jülich sugar factory is located in Jülich in the Düren district , in the north-west of the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Share over 1,000 marks in the Jülich sugar factory on November 23, 1923
Main entrance to the Jülich AG sugar factory during the beet campaign in autumn 1991

Alexander Paul Schoeller (1837-1892), son of the secret councilor Leopold Schoeller , founded a sugar factory in 1880 with his brother-in-law Julius Brockhoff . The company was named Alexander Schoeller & J. Brockhoff KG through the partnership agreement of March 25, 1880. The site chosen was a plot of land directly to the east of the Jülich train station that had been in operation seven years earlier . The first beet campaign began on November 17, 1880. The corporate form changed from KG to oHG to GmbH in 1895 and finally to AG on October 29, 1906. The AG was admitted to trading and listed on the Berlin Stock Exchange in April 1912.

In the 1891/92 campaign, 26,800 tons of sugar beets were processed. By 1913/14, processing increased to 45,350 tons. In 1934, the Süddeutsche Zucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim acquired the block of shares previously owned by the Rhenish beet farmers' association. This increased the share capital to 1.8 million Reichsmarks .

After it was completely destroyed in the bombardment on the afternoon of November 16, 1944 , the factory was rebuilt after the end of the war, but under the direction of the beet farmers' association. Südzucker AG then withdrew. As a result of the closures , the surrounding sugar factories merged with Jülich.

In 1958, a total of 400,000 tonnes of beet were delivered, i.e. around 4,000 tonnes on a daily average, around a quarter of which by rail. However, the share of railway beet sank continuously compared to the so-called trucked beet, until at the end of the 1970s, from now more than 5,000 tonnes per day, only around 200 tonnes per day came by rail (i.e. about 10 wagons), which corresponds to a 4 percent share of railway beets. When the 1979/1980 campaign was over, the Jülich sugar factory therefore stopped accepting beets by rail. In 1997/98 for the first time over a million tons of sugar beet were processed. About 160,000 tons of sugar were obtained from this.

Coal train of the Rurtalbahn with locomotive V 35 is unloaded in the siding of the sugar factory Jülich (Allerheiligen 2004)

In 2003, the construction of a state -of-the- art combined heat and power plant based on lignite began; After only 18 months of construction, it went into operation on September 23, 2004. In order to deliver the campaign's daily requirement of around 500 tons of lignite, the old siding was reactivated and a new coal unloading system was put into operation. From the 2011/2012 season, after the construction of a new white sugar silo with a capacity of 60,000 tonnes, 1.5 million tonnes of beet will be processed into 220,000 to 280,000 tonnes of sugar in Jülich every year. Around 240 people are employed all year round. There are also seasonal workers.

In 2006 the Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover by the Cologne company Pfeifer & Langen . The group thus acquired the majority of shares in Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG (Westzucker). Since then, the Jülich sugar factory has also been producing under the name Westzucker . At the same time, beet processing came to an end in the Elsdorf sugar factory, which stopped processing beet after the 2006 campaign. However, further processing of sugar products still takes place there. Beet processing was relocated to Jülich. The Jülich sugar factory is the last existing sugar factory in the Düren district. The factories in Düren and Ameln are closed. The next Pfeifer & Langen sugar factory in the region is in Euskirchen .

Since January 1, 2014, the sugar factory has been part of Pfeifer & Langen GmbH and Co. based in Cologne. The previous Zuckerfabrik Jülich GmbH is thus dissolved.

literature

Share in the Jülich sugar factory from 1929
  • Carl-Josef Virnich: Jülich sugar factory 1880-2006 . Ed .: Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG. Jülich 2007, p. 143 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zuckerfabrik Jülich 1880-1980 , publisher: Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG, Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf and Vienna, 1980, graphic on page 73
  2. ↑ Carl-Josef Virnich: Zuckerfabrik Jülich 1880-2006 , Ed .: Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG, Jülich 2007, page 109
  3. ↑ Carl-Josef Virnich: Zuckerfabrik Jülich 1880-2006 , Ed .: Zuckerfabrik Jülich AG, Jülich 2007, page 131

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 4.5 ″  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 16.6 ″  E