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.
