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billion investments after the Wall
The contacts with the GDR-rich western car companies back to the 1970s. The French company Citroen built in Mosel then a drive shaft work with the new owner is still working. Volkswagen AG and the industry association Automotive (IFA) of the GDR was founded shortly after the wall came down, the joint venture VW IFA Cars Ltd. It was a car, the Polo class as Trabant successor in the nearly completed new plants from Sachsenring will be built in Mosel.
On 26 September 1990, a Week before the reunion, put Chancellor Kohl and VW boss cock the foundation for the new factory in Mosel - the go-ahead for billion-dollar investment. On 12 December 1990, the IFA VW cars in the Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH, a 100-VW-owned subsidiary, changed its name. It included also an engine plant in Chemnitz.
On 21 May 1990 was still at Sachsenring in Mosel, the first in the GDR mounted VW Polo off the line. On the same day the third million satellite, one of the first four-stroke engine Polo was passed. The production of both models ceased in 1991 because the Trabi-demand gene tended zero and in Zwickau began the Gulf production. The trade-production was in 1996. By 2007, screwed the Moseler automakers together three million vehicles. The Sachsenring works required over 30 years to build by three million Trabis.
Without the talented West Saxon automaker would in the Dresden "Transparent Factory" the lights go out. For in Zwickau the coaches for the luxury Phaeton model will be produced before they are transferred to the state capital and assembled in the prestigious car factory. Customers can watch it and perceive both a cultural and culinary offerings. At the beginning of the 20th Century had produced the Zwickau Horch works a superb car named Phaeton. In addition, Volkswagen produced in Zwickau bodies for the UK Automobile manufacturers and purveyors Bentley.
Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH 2010 has as many cars as ever made: A total of 250,000 vehicles were off the line (2009: 212.000). In the same year celebrated the Zwickau plant plant celebrates its 20th anniversary. Volkswagen 3.6 million in this time of Saxony in all parts of the world have been delivered. "Our staff is here in Saxony the best in the world," a senior VW official said on the occasion of the jubilee to the press. Also in 2010, presented the new VW Passat model in Zwickau at the motor show in Paris. In November, the total two-millionth Passat was designed Zwickau.
Lighthouses Zwickau-Mosel
"I never doubted how important and well Chemnitz and Zwickau as a location for our group would be," said one former VW board Hahn. "However, I knew not then that of paramount importance and responsibility we should have for this region by the absence of other significant investors. You can only be grateful that we were able to take such a chance and implement -. Again crucial both thanks to the people of this region and all the staff at our West German plants "from major industries such as VW sparked go small for the development- and medium-sized structures.
Zwickau VW actually has great appeal. The two chimneys of the work that rise like two lighthouses in the sky, symbolize the often-invoked lighthouse policy. Many suppliers who supply the company with prefabricated modules "just-in-time, settled itself. Volkswagen puts its effect on employment to a total of 35,000 jobs. The infrastructure is very modern in Mosel. The early 1990s, the federal highway B93 from Zwickau, VW plant and the A4 motorway at Meerane to around 16 kilometers newly built four-lane - with six connection points to the existing road network, the new cloverleaf Cross of A4/B93 and the 440-meter-long tunnel Moseler.
coined until the reunification, the rural idyll to work adjacent villages Schlunzig and Mosel. From a district official description for Schlunzig emerge until 1990, no major events: In the 1960s there was at least the first prestressed concrete bridge was built and in 1974 the GDR was first built on the church roof, a pair of storks nests. In Mosel there was a little more movement: It was here, as described above, a propeller shaft drive. Until the incorporation to Zwickau in 1999 should have been Schlunzig Mosel and because of the business tax two wealthy villages.
for their outstanding Contribution to the maintenance of the car location Zwickau by VW-settlement with the result of new perspectives for the people of West Saxons gave the city of Zwickau an honorary citizen of the VW Manager Dr. Carl H. Hahn (1998) and Dr. Ferdinand Piech (1999). At the anniversary event "100 years of car manufacturing in the economic region of Chemnitz-Zwickau" (2004) was Chancellor Schroeder in a speech Zwickau-Mosel. 2009, the World Works met with employee representatives from over 60 locations, and the personnel director of Volkswagen in Zwickau.
Investment in Zwickau and Chemnitz sites go further, however. According to VW, it was only 2010 at 215 million €. produced in Mosel present a new, 14-meter high production hall on an area of 35,000 square meters.
Zwickau, Wolfsburg of the East?
played in the 1990s, the FSV Zwickau and VfL Wolfsburg in the Second Bundesliga against each other. With two wins, draws and defeats the balance sheet was in balance. In the automotive Zwickau Wolfsburg remained of the East, the cities in football now separate worlds. Therefore supports Volkswagen, sponsor of the German Champion of 2009, the young Saxon of the fifth division. "The FSV Zwickau eV is an association that has the potential to play again in the mid exciting football. Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH and Volkswagen sports promotion want it to take the lead and moving, other regional businesses to promote the game site Zwickau again a fixture in Saxony ", said the company in 2008. 2010 the contract was renewed. Although still in the city of Zwickau represented Volkswagen Bank makes money on players loose purchases, could be the dream come true by successfully re-Zwickau football ...
source of the quote from Carl H. Hahn:
dam, Rocco, Hull, Marco; herring, Lutz (ed.): Highlights from Saxony. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Hohenheim, 2005
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