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2 unusual facts about Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden


Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden

After the takeover of Alsace-Lorraine by the German Empire in 1871, many Alsatians who considered themselves to be Frenchmen moved to the area around Belfort where, in 1872, the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (Alsatian Mechanical Engineering Company), SACM, was opened.

In 1826, André Koechlin founded the engineering works of Andre Koechlin & Cie in Mulhouse, which made steam engines, turbines, spinning and weaving machinery and, from 1839, steam locomotives too.


Illkirch-Graffenstaden

The factory had originally been built before the annexation of Alsace by Germany, but had been operated separately as a German business between 1871 and 1918.


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