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Rohmell´s factories
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1840 - 1902
Bag Hovedvagten 323


On the 7th of February 1840 a teacher at a Catholic school , Wilhelm Schuerer and carpenter Andreas Mortensen Rohmell  sought authorizing to produce and sell friction matches and the right to manufacture and sell the corresponding sticks , percussion paper and wax candles etc. as well as the boxes in which they were terminated. The grant was awarded the 19th of may 1840. According to their own registration, they started the factory already in 1837 , but in this case it happened on illegal basis and on a very small scale , since at that time there was no sale on their address ( Rohmell had difficulty getting rented the ground floor) and there was only factory surveys for tannery on site, nor is it known to the authorities by Benjamin Hellmann's application.

The address "Bag Hovedvagten" (Behind the Main Guard) was a side street to Kongens Nytorv and Ny Adelgade (orLille Grønnegade that this street was originally named). The street disappeared in 1873, during the major redevelopment of the area where the very narrow and overcrowded alleys, as PederMadsensGang was demolished.

Rohmell & Schuerer sold the matches in several different kinds of packaging , from wrapped in simple papir holsters , to be put in fine wooden boxes. The price varied in 1840 from 3 rigsdaler 48 skilling to 6 rigsdaler 48 skilling per gros or 14,400 matches .

In 1841  Rohmell and Schuerer splitted their permission , so they got one each and in 1842  Andreas 's half-brother Peter Frederik Rohmell went in partnership with Schuerer , while Andreas devoted himself to the production of its patent for special cigar matches made ​​of wood.

Already in the industrial census in 1842 there were between 60 and 80 employees, mostly women and children . Andreas moved to Sweden in 1847 to start a match factory and in 1868  Wilhelm Schuerer died, after which Peter Frederik Rohmell continued as sole owner of the factory P. Rohmell . But already in 1870,  Peter died and his two children Oscar Julius and Helga Jensine took over the factory where the medicine trained Oscar for a long time was the formal owner, while it was Helga Jensine that was in charge of daily operations.

When the Copenhagen Building Society should renovate the area , Rohmell produced for stock , bought a site at Frederikssundsvej 5, diagonally across from Lygterkroen (the lamp inn) and built a new factory while they moved their outlets around Copenhagen .

Although Helga builted the factory after the new Swedish methods for Matchstick making , it never reached the same level as when it was in the center of Copenhagen. In 1874 the factory employed 9 adults and 9 children .

In 1901 Rohmells factory  enteredin a larger aggregation of factories, conducted by the Private Bank Director Axel Heide: Kjøbenhavns Tændstikfabrik , Aktietændstikfabrikken Mercur in Randers and Godthaabsvej Tændstikfabrik , where the machines from Rohmells factory which was described as " just a label " was sold to Godthaabsvej Tændstikfabrik .

Denmark's oldest match factory was thus ended.

Rohmells 2-etages fabrik på Frederikssundsvej ses gennem træerne og bag broen (billede fra bogen)


Hjørneejendommen til venstre, som Helga Rohmell opførte foran sin fabrik på Frederikssundvej
THE DANISH MATCH MUSEUM   
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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