Made in Weißenburg - Eine Auswahl bedeutender Weißenburger Firmen von Anselm bis ZBV
It is time again. Finally. After the Tante-Emma shops (2014), the small craft businesses (2015), and the breweries and restaurants (2016), there is now a continuation, or rather a conclusion, of the successful series after a longer break. This time, the former city archivist Reiner Kammerl has chosen the "Greats."
Made in Weißenburg - A selection of significant Weißenburg companies from Anselm to ZBV
is the title.
As supporters, Kammerl has chosen two well-known entrepreneurial personalities and experts in local industrial history: Dr. Karl-Friedrich Ossberger and Jörg Raab.
The three of them will take a tour through the history of Weißenburg companies, starting with the first real industrial enterprises of the Leonian industry. The history of this traditional Weißenburg sector has occupied Kammerl throughout his active career, especially as confusing ownership changes between different manufacturing families made a processing necessary.
With the economic upturn in the 19th century, more industrial sectors were added, which will be presented in chronological order: from metal processing and mechanical engineering, wood processing and shelving technology, clothing to plastic processing. The conclusion will be "particularities," i.e., companies that cannot be assigned to any of the mentioned spectra.
Even the title suggests that these are not "memories" of long-closed and more or less forgotten companies - like the cloth factory, enamel factory, oven factory, chocolate factory, or bicycle factory, to name just a few. Rather, a selection of active and still producing companies is mentioned. For the history of Weißenburg's economy is by no means a closed chapter, "but a living archive that wants to be continuously supplemented, researched, and told. Each generation leaves its own traces in workshop halls and offices, in shop windows, on construction sites, in innovation centers or in the quiet tinkerer’s basement."
A considerable number of the mentioned companies can already look back on a notably long history. They deserve all respect for the crises they have already overcome. This also gives hope that they will master the challenges that lie ahead and those in the future.
Due to the abundance of the companies studied, the lecture planned for March 25 cannot be all-encompassing. There will be a printed version, a robust 104-page edition, which will thankfully again appear in the publication series of the Frankenbund local group Weißenburg e.V. As anniversary issue 10, it will be available on the evening of the lecture.
It has proven effective to issue reserved seats or entrance tickets for the lecture in the freshly renovated Karmeliterkirche. You can obtain these for a fee of €3 at the Cultural Office of the City of Weißenburg, via reservix, and at the well-known ticket outlets in Weißenburg.
Reiner Kammerl – Dr. Karl-Friedrich Ossberger – Jörg Raab
Made in Weißenburg - A selection of significant Weißenburg companies from Anselm to ZBV, lecture and book presentation by Reiner Kammerl, Karl Friedrich Ossberger, and Jörg Raab, an event of the Frankenbund Group Weißenburg with the support of the City of Weißenburg i.Bay. on March 25 at 19:00 in the Cultural Center Karmeliterkirche, Luitpoldstraße 9, 91781 Weißenburg i. Bay.
Tickets may be available at the Cultural Office of Weißenburg or at the box office.
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