Haushahn

Haushahn GmbH
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Founded	1889 (Stuttgart, Germany)
Founder	Immanuel Hahn
Acquired by	Schindler Group (1998)
Website	Haushahn Gruppe

C. Haushahn Gmbh & Co. KG (or sometimes known as Haushahn Gruppe) is an German elevator manufacturer, and was the largest family-held elevator company in Germany. The company was founded 1889 by Immanuel Hahn in Stuttgart. It was sold to the Swiss-based Schindler in 1998 and it is now part of Schindler Group.

History

The beginnings

The young mechanic Immanuel Hahn took over the workshop of Carl Haushahn in 1889, which was located in Tuebinger Street in Stuttgart. Carl Haushahn had the shop since 1812 producing industrial weighing scales. After Immanuel took ofter the production, they first started building cranes and then elevators. The first elevator was hydraulic and was build in Reutlingen. The company grew bigger and soon moved their production to the suburban area of Feuerbach.

1920 - 1940

Haushahn quickly grew and now was one of the biggest elevator manufactuers in germany. They made elevators in Germany and exported to Ireland, Greece, Sweden, France, Chile, Spain, Finland and Croatia.

They started to build "fast-speed-elevators" with seperate engines for leveling. Elevators of this type were built in the Bahnhofsturm, Stuttgart; Tagblatt-Turm Stuttgart and at the Pasaje Matte in Santiago de Chile.

1940 - 1998

In 1998, the company was sold out to Schindler Elevator and the company is now part of Schindler Group.

Groups

Haushahn Group is divided into 14 companies as listed below.

Haushahn Gruppe (regular company)
FHW
Knizia Strelow (this company is also part of Schindler Group)
Röbling Seiffert
Ten other regional subsidiaries

Notable installations

Germany

Stuttgart Central Station, Stuttgart
Stuttgart City Hall, Stuttgart
Stuttgart TV-Tower, Stuttgart
Breuninger, Stuttgart
Haushahn Headquarter, Stuttgart
Mitte Railway and Tram Station, Hattingen
Dortsfeld Railway Station, Dortmund
Barthel Dept. Store, Heilbronn
Niederberg Hospital, Velbert
KölnTriangle, Cologne (1994)
Porsche Museum, Stuttgart (2008)
Stuttgart Airport, Stuttgart

Indonesia

Twin Plaza Hotel, Jakarta (1996)^[1]
Graha Cijantung, Jakarta (1997)
PT. KMI Wire and Cable Tbk., Cakung, Jakarta (modernized into Tamiang)
German Centre, BSD City, South Tangerang, Banten^[2]
Hyatt Regency Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta (1997)
Garden Palace Hotel, Surabaya (1994)^[3]
Mall Ratu Indah, Makassar (1998)

Other countries

Eiffel Tower replica - Kings Dominion Amusement Park, Doswell, VA, United States^[4]
Pasaje Matte, Santiago, Chile
Kennedyplein Parking Garage, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2000)^[5]^[6]
Annexe Building, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sri Relau Kompleks, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Eastern Plaza, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Elevator fixtures

Main article: Haushahn Elevator Fixtures Guide

Trivia

Knizia Strelow, another small German elevator company is also part of Haushahn Group.
In Indonesia, Haushahn elevators were distributed by PT. Ihaka Saka Nusantara from September 1995 to 1997.
In South Korea, Haushahn elevators were distributed by Soolim^[7].

Gallery

Notes

↑ Only the service elevators are still original at the moment. The main elevators were replaced by Lemova in 2013.
↑ Mostly have been modernized by ThyssenKrupp and another one was modernized into LiSA.
↑ Only the service elevator remain original. The main elevators have been replaced into Kone in 2014, while the elevators in the function rooms have been replaced into ThyssenKrupp.
↑ Haushahn Scenic Traction elevator at the Eiffel Tower in Kings Dominion, Doswell, VA
↑ A Haushahn!! elevator @ Kennedyplein parking garage in Eindhoven
↑ Another Haushahn! elevator @ Kennedyplein parking garage in Eindhoven
↑ 서울특별시 강서구 염창동 염창동아1차아파트 코네수림엘리베이터 탑사기

External links

Major elevator and escalator companies
Full list of companies	List of elevator and escalator companies
Operating	Fujitec • Hitachi • Hyundai • Kone • Mitsubishi Electric (Shanghai Mitsubishi) • Otis (Otis Electric • Sigma) • Schindler • TK Elevator • Toshiba
Defunct	Dover Elevators • Express Lift • Orenstein & Koppel • Thyssen • thyssenkrupp • Westinghouse
Other companies	Third-party elevator maintenance companies

[1] Only the service elevators are still original at the moment. The main elevators were replaced by Lemova in 2013.

[2] Mostly have been modernized by ThyssenKrupp and another one was modernized into LiSA.

[3] Only the service elevator remain original. The main elevators have been replaced into Kone in 2014, while the elevators in the function rooms have been replaced into ThyssenKrupp.

[4] Haushahn Scenic Traction elevator at the Eiffel Tower in Kings Dominion, Doswell, VA

[5] A Haushahn!! elevator @ Kennedyplein parking garage in Eindhoven

[6] Another Haushahn! elevator @ Kennedyplein parking garage in Eindhoven

[7] 서울특별시 강서구 염창동 염창동아1차아파트 코네수림엘리베이터 탑사기

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