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1875 - 1892
Nordvejstvej 11

In the spring of 1875 Niels August Wolff sought and obtained  permission to establish a cigarette and match factory in the estate on Nordvestvej 11 ( current Rantzausgade 11) , which he had bought from carpenter Jorgen Hansen. The match factory was located in the cellar and the cigar factory in the attic , while he had his office on the ground floor , where the carpenter also rented a couple of rooms. During the years he  currently improved factory , including he withdrew some of carpenters premises to furnish stock for approx. 100,000 (100 mille ) matchboxes .

In May 1876  Wolff sold the matchstick factory to Peter Andreas Andersen and Jens Johansen, although he continued to run his cigar factory and also devoted himself to a military career . The factory came to be called " Kronen by P. Andersen & Co " . Less than 1 year after Peter Andreas Andersen , however, withdraw from the company.

Already three years after , in 1879, the factory changed owner again since Jens Johansen soldit to Emil Gundestrup and the factory changed name again , this time to "E. Gundestrup & Co " . The following year was Gundestrup in partnership with Ferdinand Isaac Heymann (son of Isaac Wulff Heymann and nephew of Philip Wulff Heymann ), which like its predecessors received citizenship as match stick manufacturer. Together they changed the company name to " Nørrebros Tændstikfabrik , E. Gundestrup & Co ". .

Since E. Gundestrup died in June 1888  Heymann continued alone and now changed the name to " Nørrebros Tændstikfabrik " . Heymann searched the next few years on several alterations associated with expanding production , so there was waxing and sulfuring in the basement , offices and box manufacturing on the ground floor and packing in association with storage in the attic. In the late 1880s  Heymann was employing approx. 50 employees , most of whom were women and children .

The 28th of January 1892 at 9:00 in the morning a disaster occurred as a boy should take a frame with match sticks out of the oven in a dry room. The boy droped the frame on the floor and it broke immediately on fire and ignited very fast the rest of the factory. As the fire hose was in disarray , it was impossible to make first aid and when the fire department arrived  the whole factory was ablaze . Nothing was to save .

Heymann hoped to restart relatively short after and paid the employees in two weeks' pay , but when HE Gosch offered him to buy the remaining wood and chemicals Heymann accepted although the conditions (for a fee of 15,000 dollars) was that he  the next 8 years not in any way may establish , operate or have interests in the manufacture of matches and not negotiate other than Gosch 's brands.

Heymann rebuilt the property on Nordvestvej and established workshops , since he also bought himself a part of the chemical company P. Sørensen & Co., which was owned by Thorvald Peter Rich and Oscar Hjalmar William. Heymann retained , perhaps to annoy Gosch, the company name" Nørrebros Match Factory " changing the purpose from " manufacture of matches " to simply " fabrication " .

The company name Nørrebros Tændstikfabrik was deleted by the company registration the 3rd of march 1896.


1838 - Benjamin Hellmann
1840 - Rohmell´s fabrikker
1841 - Ramsing & Stonor
1842 - Hans Andreas Reuter
1842 - Anne Marie Granberg
1843 - Hans Diderich Schmilau
1843 - Frederik Georg Kølbel
1843 - Carl Axel Hörner
1843 - Carl Peter Rolff
1843 - Christian Peter Beck
1843 - Christophersen og Nielsen
1843 - Johan Carl Müller
1844 - Svovlstikkefabrikken Møllegade
1844 - Arnold Theofilus Müllertz
1844 - Carl Ferdinand Gundorph

1844 - Hassing og Smith
1844 - Carl Frederik Kryger
1844 - Peter Conradsen
1844 - Philip Åkermann
1845 - Niels Thuesen
1846 - Niels Sørensen
1847 - Rasmus Rasmussen
1847 - Søren og Jørgen Brummer
1848 - Frederik Hansen
1850 - Greens fabrikker
1850 - Carl Johan Staal
1850 - Peder Andersen
1853 - Gümoes & Beeken
1853 - Johan Wilhelm Otto
1857 - Carl Abraham Metz
1858 - Anders Sørensen & Co.
1862 - Sørens Larsen Sørensen

1864 - Randers Tændstikfabrik
1864 - Rasmus Langeland Mathiesen
1864 - Hintz & Co
1864 - Ludvig Hintze
1865 - Aalborg Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Peter Nielsen
1865 - Hans Jørgensen Svovlstikkefabrik
1865 - Adolph Madsen
1865 - Andreas Bernhard Bryndum
1866 - Carl Meyling
1866 - Lund & Hartmann
1867 - Johan Wilhelm Krause
1868 - Peter Christian Petersen

1868 - Kjær & Gottlieb
1872 - Pallesen & Davidsen
1875 - Kronen og Nørrebros tændstikfabrik
1876 - H.E. Gosch & Co
1884 - Tændstikfabrikken Merkur
1886 - Maare Tændstikfabrik
1890 - Norden og Godthaabsvej

1897 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik
1899 - Internationalt Tændstikkompagni

1901 - Tændstikfabrikken Glødefri
1901 - Købmændenes Tændstikfabrik
1901 - Københavns Tændstikfabrik & Merkur
1904 - Hellerup Tændstikfabrik

1907 - Otto Miram
1908 - KET & Union Allumettière
1916 - Frantz Nehammer
1921 - Hellerup & Glødefri
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