Warburg sugar factory
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| legal form | Aktiengesellschaft (1882–1972), then part of Südzucker AG |
| founding | November 21, 1882 |
| resolution | 2019 |
| Seat | Bahnhofstrasse 80, 34414 Warburg |
| management | Stefan Mondel (since 2011) |
| Number of employees | 19th |
| Branch | Sugar manufacturing |
The Warburg sugar factory was a factory founded in 1882 for the production of sugar from sugar beet in Warburg , Westphalia. At last it belonged to Südzucker AG , was their northernmost plant in Germany and the last remaining sugar factory in Westphalia .
history
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In 1882 farmers from Warburg and Hofgeismar founded the Warburg AG sugar factory. At that time, 331 were vinkulierende registered shares à 1500 Mark drawn, creating a corporate capital convened by 496,500 marks. An area south of the Warburg train station , built in 1852–53, was developed, built on and provided with a direct rail connection . This enabled both the delivery of raw materials and coal and the transport of the finished products by rail. The transport within the factory premises took place among other things. a. by shunting locomotives , including a former Prussian steam locomotive of the T3 series with the number 896220 built by Henschel & Sohn , which was used until 1979. After that, a Köf was used as the factory locomotive , which was present on the factory premises until the end, but has not been used in recent years because freight traffic by rail had already ceased.
The nearby oyster mill was purchased to provide power and an extension was added.
The factory has also been producing white sugar since around 1900 , after initially only producing raw sugar , which was then processed into the end product in refineries.
In the 1950s, the competing Zuckerfabrik Franken GmbH in Ochsenfurt began to acquire parts of the shares listed on the Frankfurt Freiverkehr and finally took over the entire company in 1972. In 1977 the "United Sugar Corporation Obernjesa-Wabern-Warburg" (VZAG) was founded as a subsidiary of the Franken sugar factory. In 1988 the Süddeutsche Zucker-AG merged with the Franken sugar factory to form today's Südzucker-AG, based in Mannheim . Five years later, VZAG was also merged with Südzucker AG. Today Südzucker AG, which is listed in the MDax, is the largest sugar producer in the world.
On February 25, 2019, Südzucker announced that the factory in Warburg will be closed after the 2019 campaign. December 28, 2019 was the last day of operation. The operations manager and the 19 remaining employees will carry out the remaining work on the site until the end of 2020. Among other things, parts of the systems are to be dismantled and taken to other Südzucker plants for further use.
production
The plant was based on the close connection to agriculture : around 800 farmers have grown sugar beet for the Warburg plant in recent years. The catchment area had expanded steadily in the preceding decades and after the closure of the sugar factories included a. in Obernjesa (1977), Soest (1992) and Nörten-Hardenberg (1993) the area of East Westphalia with the Warburger Börde , the Soester Börde and parts of southern Lower Saxony and northern Hesse . During the campaign from September to December / January, the factory operated 24 hours a day without interruption. During that time, the daily beet processing volume was around 4,700 tons. The annual amount was between 350,000 and 450,000 tons.
Between 55,000 and 75,000 tons of sugar were produced annually. 21,000 tons of sugar could be stored in the silos . Until 2018, Warburg was the only plant in Germany to produce organic sugar with sugar beets from organic agriculture before the actual campaign . The system from the beet field to the sugar dispatch was bio-certified valid throughout Europe. Much of the organic sugar produced was used for further processing throughout Europe, for example in the area of baby food or organic baked goods. Brown sugar was marketed in 25-kilogram sacks and 1,000-kilogram big bags. Another special type of sugar from Warburg was Brillant Decor , a very coarse refined product that was sold in big bags to customers in the baked goods industry in other European countries. The valuable by-products of pressed pulp, dry pulp, carbolime and molasses in organic quality were also produced in Warburg during sugar production . Among other Warburg unpelletierte produced Melassetrockenschnitzel in 40-kilogram bags for customers throughout Germany.
At the end of February 2019, Südzucker's management announced that the Warburg sugar factory, together with the Brottewitz sugar factory in southern Brandenburg and three other plants, would be closed in order to stabilize sugar prices.
Directors / Plant Managers
- Andreas Harre (before 1914)
- Aloys Wand (1914-1939)
- Dr. Severidt (approx. 1939–1960)
- Siegfried Starke (approx. 1960–1968)
- Klaus Korn (approx. 1968–1982)
- Christian Voss (1985-2011)
- Stefan Mondel (since 2011)
Written sources
- Warburg sugar factory: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary. Warburg 1982.
- Simone Flörke: Four decades for a sweet passion. Neue Westfälische , Warburg, October 26, 2011
- Carolin Nieder-Entgelmeier: The beets are about the sugar. Neue Westfälische, Warburg, October 18, 2013
- Stefan Boes: The sugar factory is starting the new season. Neue Westfälische, Warburg, October 22, 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Benner: A farewell with sadness - the last campaign of the Warburger sugar factory ended. Westfalen-Blatt, December 29, 2019.
- ↑ Dieter Scholz, Hermann Ludwig: Definitely decided off for Warburger sugar factory. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Ralf Benner: A farewell with sadness. Retrieved January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Südzucker AG website, accessed on October 31, 2017
- ↑ Tobias Chmura, Veronika Scheidl: First organic sugar from Bavaria: processing of organic beets begins. In: br.de . September 9, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Südzucker AG website, accessed on October 31, 2017
- ↑ Warburger sugar factory will be closed wdr.de, February 25, 2019; accessed on March 26, 2019.
- ↑ Company: Südzucker announces the closure of five plants. In: Focus Online . February 25, 2019, accessed February 25, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 29.3 " N , 9 ° 9 ′ 47.6" E