Bruunshaab Old Cardboard Factory, Vinkelvej 93

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Family business built on cloth and cardboard

By Kathrine G. Bjerregaard, Cand.mag i historie og filosofi (33 stories)

What was once Bruunshaab Old Cardboard Factory near Viborg is now a dynamic museum where you can see cardboard being made on the old machines in an old factory that hasn't changed much since the 1950s. The central factory building was built in 1909, and produced cloth until 1919. Then it was converted to produce cardboard by A/S J. Smith's Cardboard Factory. The Smith family had the majority share in the factory right up until 1976 when the company was slowly wound up. But in 1987, it was reincarnated as a dynamic factory museum. The state owns the land and buildings while a private fund runs the museum.

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Story written by Kathrine G. Bjerregaard

Time / Periode 1809 1909

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In 1809, factory owner Bertel Bruun moved his cloth factory from Fredericia to Viborg. This solved the state's problem of what to do with the many inmates of Viborg's special prisons for the poor. The factory was not finished until 1822 but production began nonetheless. Bruun rented properties near the prison until the buildings by the mill stream on the outskirts of town were finished. Bruun then asked the King for permission to name the location after his family. And the little town around the factory was christened Bruun's Hope". The Bruun family's cloth factory remained here until 1909, when it went up in smoke. It was rebuilt, but instead of cloth, it produced cardboard. And it still does. "