page_title: Bleichert
section_title: 1874 until 1918
hierarchical_section_title: Bleichert / History / 1874 until 1918
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Firmenschild Bleichert Personen-Drahtseilbahn GmbH Leipzig
context_page_description: Bleichert, short for Adolf Bleichert & Co., was a German engineering firm founded in 1874 by Adolf Bleichert. The company dominated the aerial wire ropeway industry during the first half of the 20th century, and its portfolio included cranes, electric cars, elevators, and mining and ship-loading equipment.
context_section_description: In 1872 Adolf Bleichert started in Teutschenthal (Saxony, Germany) the design and manufacture of the first wire rope way (also called Aerial lift). Simultaneously with the successful start-up of this installation Adolf Bleichert founded (initially together with Theodor Otto) in 1874 near to Leipzig a company for the manufacture of wire rope ways. This was the beginning of Adolf Bleichert & Co. which in the 50 years, starting from 1874 until the  middle of the 20th century, developed into a world renowned company of the highest standing. 
  In 1881 Bleichert moved its offices to Leipzig-Gholis, which became the main factory facility located in a much bigger plant and it also was the Headquarter of the company.
  Starting from 1888 Bleichert expanded also to the Northamerican market by concluding a license agreement with the American company Cooper, Hewitt & Co., the mothercompany of the Trenton Iron Inc., which constructed and sold many material wire rope ways based on the Bleichert system.
  During World War I the Bleichert company developed a specific "field cable car" used by German military forces in mountain warfare in the Vosges Mountains, the Alpine and Balkan areas.
  Until World War I the Bleichert company realized many aerial cable cars, especially for material carriage, but even for passengers transportation, among this have been built the following in:
  1874: Aerial cableway installation on round bar rails for the solar oil and paraffin factory in Teutschenthal near Halle, Germany
  1876: Ropeway conveyor for the material transportation of Sayn Mine Works from Krupp company near to Bendorf, Germany
  1880: Aerial cableway for the transportation of iron ore from the  Doihl Mine  to the steelworks in Rodange, Luxembourg
  1890: Aerial cableway for the wood transportation of the Baina-Buschta region, Serbia
  1900: Aerial cableway for the miningworkings of the Kappler-Tunnel at the Schauinsland mountain in the Black Forest near to Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  1902: Aerial cableway for the coalmine activities at Grand-Hornu, Belgium
  1903: Aerial cableway for the coalmine activities at the Sumitomo-Besshi Copper Mine in Niihama, Japan
  1904: Aerial cableway for the Harpener Bergbau AG former mining company near to Dortmund, Germany
  1905: Aerial cableway for the Chilecito-La Mejicana gold mining industry, also called cable car from the Famatina pit, Argentina
  1906: Aerial cableway for the nickel ore loading facility of Société Le Nickel on the pacific coast at the French overseas territory of Thio, New Caledonia
  1906: Aerial cableway for the cement industry Alsenschen Portland-Zementfabrik in Itzehoe–Agethorst /  Wacken, Germany
  1908: Aerial cableway for the cole mining industry in Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen (Svalbard islands), Norway
  1909: Aerial cableway for the wood transportation of a sawmill in Mkumbara – Neu Hornow, former German East Africa
  1909: Aerial cableway for the material trasportation of Toli Mines in the coal mining district of Shandong coastal province, China
  1913: Passengers aerial cableway Kohlerer Bahn in Bolzano, South Tyrol (former Austria-Hungary), Italy
  1913: Aerial cable cranes for the construction of the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw (Lower Silesia), Poland
caption: Adolf Bleichert & Co. company nameplate
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