Maschinenbauanstalt Ãœbigau
The Maschinenbauanstalt Übigau, full name Dresden Actien- Mechanical Engineering Club, Engineering Institution Uebigau, was an early industrial engineering company and shipyard in the present district of Dresden Übigau. It is the manufacturer of the Saxonia, the first working steam locomotive built in Germany, and the Queen Mary, who is considered the first Saxon people steamboat.
History
The resultant in June 1836 Dresden Actien- engineering club founded in the same year the " engineering institute Uebigau " and opened it on January 1, 1837. Involved decisive because the professor at the Royal Technical School Dresden and engineering scientist Johann Andreas Schubert was ( 1808-1870), who acted as Technical Director and Chairman of the Board of the company as a result. Among the employees of the company also Christian Johann Heinrich Schmidt, who then became the first engineer Saxony belonged. Location of the mechanical engineering institution was the Übigau Castle and directly north of this location (toward Altübigau ) terrain. The castle was in 1836 passed into the possession of the engineering works, which used it to house its administrative offices and design spaces. The production facilities were adjacent north.
The Engineering Institute was founded in order to realize some projects Schubert. One of these was the construction of the first German steam locomotive, the Saxonia, Leipzig- Dresden Railway for. Schubert constructed in 1837 in Übigau also driving the Queen Mary, one of the first oberelbischen steamships. In April 1838, he retired again but left the company to devote himself to his chair. There was neither a formal construction contract, nor sufficient technical experience, production of Saxonia for the company was associated with a high risk. Mainly due to lack of orders remained the economic situation of Maschinenbauanstalt tense in the following period. On June 15, 1841 liquidation of Maschinenfabrik was decided. The Dresden Actien- engineering club she offered in July 1841 for private sale.
Regardless of her emerged decades later, almost at the same location the shipyard Übigau in the 1870s and the steam boiler factory Übigau (later VEB Dampfkesselbau ) in the 1930s.
Products
Main product of the engineering works were steam engines of all kinds, which should come in the steady state as well as on ships and locomotives used, the boilers and spinning machines or agricultural machines. The company built from April 1837, the boiler and the evidence provided from Berlin low-pressure steam engines in the two banks of the Elbe made on Johannstadt ships Queen Mary and Prince Albert a. Übigau in 1838 delivered Saxonia and the Phoenix delivered on 12 April 1840 another locomotive, which was however rejected by the Leipzig- Dresden Railway Moreover emerged yet. Thereafter the work did not build complete locomotives more, but only boiler. For the machine director Christian Friedrich Brendel, who was responsible for the decision on the use of machinery in the entire Saxon mining and metallurgy, mining machinery needed were designed and constructed.