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RASMUS LANGELAND MATHIESEN
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1864 - 1870
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Since timber master Rasmus Langeland Mathiesen in 1864 returned home after a long study tour in Europe, he started a match stick factory in the neighboring building for his accommodation in Mindegade . As he was bussy in his carpentry and architectural services , he immediately employeeded Lars Peter Larsen to take charge of the production and hired a woman and some children aged 8-12 years.

Rasmus Langeland Mathiesen is probably one of the most unlucky mathc stick manufacturers ever. Already when he stayed in Mindegade he had 3 fires, the last so devastating that the neighboring building burned down .

Rasmus Langeland found , however, soon a new place , this time outside the city, at the farm Jægergården on the road to Marselisborg , where he built a completely new factory building. But a few months later when the building was completed and production was started a new fire started in this factory too and the buildings burned down .

He then went along with one of his distributors , grocery Eiler Mehl, where Mehl built a factory for the production of chocolate (later Elvirasminde ) and where Rasmus Langeland rented space at one end of the factory which was located at Wallenstein's redoubt at Hadsherredsvej .

Here  Rasmus Langeland produced both round and square sticks in many different colors and in 1867 he participated with them in the exhibition in Paris .

Mehls factory was a great success and he soon needed more space. He then agreed with Rasmus Langeland to move , and he found a site at the end of Teglværksvej in the north of Aarhus. Here he built a one-story factory building equipped with a tile roof , a half- tags building and a latrine .

Two years later, Rasmus Langeland beyond its manager, Lars employed 8-12 boys for the production , where he himself mixed the sulfur and phosphorus , which were stored under water in a locked chest .

On the 25th of  March 1870 the day ended as usual pm. 19:00 by Lars turning off and locking the premisses and deliver the key back to Rasmus Langeland. But in the night  a heavy fire broke loose and once again the whole factory burned to the ground. The fire was so powerful that without this particular night had been a strong easterly wind , it could very easily have spread towards Aarhus.

This time was the last time that Rasmussen Langeland tried to establish a match stick factory, and afterwards he devoted himself to his carpentry and architecture and in 1872 he moved to Copenhagen , where he was building inspector of the capital.
Fabriksbygningen på Hadsherredsvej, set fra Skansen. Rasmus Langeland Mathiesens svovlstikkefabrik til højre, hvor skorstenen fra satsrummet rager op gennem taget.
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1841 - Ramsing & Stonor
1842 - Hans Andreas Reuter
1842 - Anne Marie Granberg
1843 - Hans Diderich Schmilau
1843 - Frederik Georg Kølbel
1843 - Carl Axel Hörner
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1843 - Christian Peter Beck
1843 - Christophersen og Nielsen
1843 - Johan Carl Müller
1844 - Svovlstikkefabrikken Møllegade
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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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