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Foundation of Leipzig’s cotton-spinning mill The Leipzig cotton-spinning mill's founding day is 21 June 1884. The idea was to design a major German spinning mill for yarn thicknesses in the numbers up to the 45ers. The imported size of these yar ... Lire la suite

 
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Foundation of Leipzig’s cotton-spinning mill The Leipzig cotton-spinning mill's founding day is 21 June 1884. The idea was to design a major German spinning mill for yarn thicknesses in the numbers up to the 45ers. The imported size of these yarns was so big that for their fabrication alone 500,000 mandrels would be needed. Finer yarn thicknesses in the numbers from 50ers upward would be thrown onto the European market by large English spinning mills at lower inch rates. In 1884 the company bought the 59,000 square metre area alongside the old salt street for an amount of 123,200 Mark from Dr Karl Heine, the developer of Leipzig's west. Production started in 1884 with its five spinning chairs, as early as in March 1885 spinning mill I with 30,000 mandrels was working. In 1888 the second spinning mill was constructed and started production with 50 spinning machines with a total amount of 74,000 mandrels. Since 1886 it had been affiliated to the Bremen cotton exchange. In the meantime the first office building and the first worker's tenement had been built. Spinning mill II was operated with a steam engine of 1000 HP. In 1889 the English and Swiss competition was challenged with the construction of spinning mill III for the production of top-quality combed yarn in fine numbers with a total of 76,000 mandrels and a large amount of combing machines. Shareholder The bonuses for the shareholders had doubled from 5% in the beginning to 10%. As of 1893 a dividend of 14% could be paid continually. The amount of people at the cotton mill grew with production. Working at the cotton mill finally meant living there, too. Men worked about 14 hours a day, women 11 hours. The closer environment of the cotton mill was called "Piependorf". Women wore aprons, long skirts and many combs in their hair. In the morning, after a number of fist fights, there were sick persons and casualties which served as a good reason for playing truant. Everything was so inexpensive anyway. During lunch break there was often dancing going on at Pfeifer-Louis, and after closing time there were hawkers standing at the cotton mill entrance offering oranges, bloater, but also plaster sculptures and textiles - everything was on sale. Friday was the big day. The women got their wage at noon, the men at closing time. Then people would "live". In the afternoon the baker and the fruit dealer got their share, at night the innkeepers. On Saturdays one went to the canteen. For a single Mark one got half the world. Production The Piependorf natives lived like a large family. No one was wealthier or poorer than the other. They proliferated, sometimes tussled and were under the influence of alcohol from Friday to Sunday. The area was infamous in Leipzig and therefore avoided. Only the graveyard visitors came and went. The ones who went out on a Sunday to the inner city ran the gauntlet. In Thueringer Strasse a thousand eyes lurked, from the daunting company health insurance fund man Scheer to the smallest housewife. One had to see what the passers-by were wearing. It was a poor world. Romance barely happened, poetry was wimpy. Yet the attentive saw and heard as much as he might need for a whole novel. It still was a reflection of the big world outside. Until 1899 a kindergarten and more workers' tenements had been established. A music band consisting of 21 men and the men's choir "Frohsinn" (Cheerfulness) had been created and were gladly consulted at working occasions. In 1903 a 10-hour working day was accomplished with a strike. In 1907 the ambitious enterprise started to produce its own cotton in German East Africa. Under the name of "Leipzig cotton-spinning mill plantations Cherhami near Sadami and Kissanke at the Wami" about 30,000 ha of cotton were planted there until the first world war. The year 1909 marks a quarter century of development at Leipzig's cotton mill. The management had succeeded in keeping pace with the stormy speed of industrial spread in the Wilhelminian time period and developed the factory into the continent's biggest cotton-spinning mill within 25 years.