Carriage factory Darr & Axthelm

The Darr & Axthelm company was founded as a vehicle construction company on April 5, 1869 in Eisenach Germany. Albert Axthelm operated the royal carriage factory in Eisenach jointly with Darr.

A year before Albert’s death, the carriage for the Grand Ducal couple’s golden wedding anniversary was built there; it is preserved today at the Carriage Museum in Auerstedt (Thuringia). The Mecklenburg Carriage Museum in Kobrow houses a landaulet from around 1890 made by D. & A.

It is reasonable to assume that Albert Axthelm’s son, Paul, trained at the Eisenach firm and continued to work there. Paul Axthelm separated from Darr around 1897 and founded a new company in Weimar.

In 1907, Darr in Eisenach had got into economic difficulties, so machines began to be sold out.
In 1908 Darr committed suicide (the “Centralblatt der Wagenbauer” reported that the carriage maker Darr from the Darr & Axthelm company had disappeared without a trace. Darr, “whose company is world-famous”, had committed suicide).

The royal carriage factory went bankrupt after the death of its owner.
In 1909 all workers are laid off and the company is closed.
The company Darr & Axthelm, Eisenach, Nonnengasse 3, is mentioned in the address book for the last time in 1909. It was obviously taken over by the carriage builder Christian Klein, who lived in 1910 with the widow Darr in Nonnengasse 3 – the company existed until the 1930s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:

Eckermann 2013, 475ff., Köppen 2015, 436

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