Motorenfabrik Oberursel
The engine Oberursel AG (short: Oberursel ) was a manufacturer of engines for automobiles, trains and airplanes.
Prehistory
The millwright brothers Seck from Westerburg (see MIAG ) had in 1883 acquired the former Wiemer mill and erected on the site of an iron foundry and machine shop. To 1886, it moved the operation to its other location in Darmstadt. 1891 developed the engineer Willy Seck ( 1868-1955 ) in his father's workshop a motor for petroleum with a new injection device, which he called GNOM what the saying " Do not go without pedaling " interpreted as "Do not go without installer " or later than. In 1892 he founded the company W. Seck & Co. From about 1895, the brothers Louis and Laurent Seguin Augustine built in France in the GNOM license and developed it in the sequence advances to rotary engine Gnôme. After the shareholder Willy Seck had refused to incorporate his GNOM in a car, he left the company in 1897 and established it as a new engine factory at Oberursel Oberursel im Taunus. ( To 1904 he was chief engineer of the Dixi at the automobile plant in Eisenach. ) In the following year the engine factory was enlarged and renamed motor Oberursel AG.
1921 merged the company with the Deutz AG, 1930 with Humboldt -Deutz engines, and ultimately in 1938 Klöckner-Werke.
From then on, they were known as Klöckner- Humboldt -Deutz Oberursel, especially for their rail drives. Today they are part of Rolls- Royce plc and the only German manufacturer of self-developed aircraft engines.
Connection to the railway network
After the engine Oberursel AG stop the engine factory in the mountain railway in the Frankfurt local railway was named. Opened on May 31, 1910 local train route of the line 24 leading from the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus after Hohemark. The route on 1st January 1955 adopted by the tram Frankfurt was incorporated on 27 May 1978 in the power of the Frankfurt U -Bahn. In addition to the passenger and the freight was handled to the network of the German Federal Railroad until October 27, 1981 on this route. In 1989, the stop engine factory was replaced by the stop Lahnstrasse.