Sugar factory Stuttgart

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Building of the old sugar factory (Bottroper Strasse)

The Stuttgart sugar factory was a company based in Stuttgart-Münster on the border with Bad Cannstatt . It traded as the "Sugar Factory Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt".

history

The Stuttgart sugar factory was founded in 1851 by the Württembergische Hofbank , for which public interests were decisive. Due to considerable restrictions on the purchase, which were caused by the high price of imported sugar, the idea was to become independent of the import of foreign cane sugar . The main reasons for the high prices were customs barriers. Because of their equivalent sugar content, sugar beets should be used for sugar production. Although this had already been explored in 1747, it nevertheless took almost 100 years before the demand for sweets in the population created a greater need for sugar. The sugar factory was founded at a time when the Stuttgart chocolate industry was flourishing. There was high demand from the manufacturers Waldbaur , Moser-Roth and Eszet .

A second building

In 1868 the sugar factory was renamed an AG . In 1903 the company premises at the Stuttgart Nordbahnhof were sold and the company's headquarters were relocated to the then still independent Münster. There, a modern industrial plant with was refinery and railway siding built that for at Schuster track located Munster Station led. No architect, but a mechanical engineering company was commissioned to plan and build the production halls. A major fire destroyed the factory in 1906; there were two dead and several seriously injured. The factory was restored almost identically. In the period that followed, additions were continually made to expand and modernize the company. In 1907 the Böblinger sugar factory was bought. Their original operation was shut down except for beet production. Around 1910, due to the high order situation - including seasonal fluctuations - between 200 and 400 workers could be employed. In 1926 the Stuttgart sugar factory was merged into the Süddeutschen-Zucker-AG, later Südzucker AG (the largest sugar manufacturer in Europe). Five regional factories were merged (Zuckerfabrik Frankenthal AG, Frankenthal; Zuckerfabrik Heilbronn AG, Heilbronn; Badische Gesellschaft für Zuckerfabrikation, Mannheim; Zuckerfabrik Offstein AG, Offstein; Zuckerfabrik Stuttgart AG, Stuttgart-Münster). After further fires, the factory was closed in 1971.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the factory premises were used by the supraregional "Sugar Factory" recording studio, where many, sometimes well-known, productions were made. In 1972 the city of Stuttgart bought the disused company premises and began to renovate it in 1989.

Today Stuttgart no longer has a sugar factory. Operations in Münster were discontinued and most of the production facilities were demolished. Instead, modern business is operated on the former premises. Only parts of the administration and residential buildings of the former factory are left facing Bottroper Strasse. There u. a. the Free Art School Stuttgart their location. The former premises of the Lauster quarry border on the south .

Products

literature

  • Gabriele Kreuzberger, factory buildings in Stuttgart, their development from the middle of the 19th century to the First World War , Klett-Cotta 1993, ISBN 3-608-91629-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo from the sugar factory (1950) ( Memento from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Share in the Stuttgart sugar factory
  3. ↑ Company history
  4. ↑ Gabriele Kreuzberger, p. 377 ff. (See lit.)
  5. ↑ Recording studio in the sugar factory

Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 10 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 55 ″  E