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Rosthorn#

Rosthorn, industrialist family; were made members of the nobility in 1790. Matthaeus the Elder (1721-1805), a button manufacturer, was called to Vienna from England by Maria Theresia in 1765 and founded a rolling mill at Fahrafeld (Lower Austria) in 1792. The mill was taken over by his son August (1789-1843), who moved it to Oed an der Piesting as a brass rolling mill and wire factory in 1816. The brothers August, Franz (1796-1877) and Matthaeus the Younger (1782-1855) acquired large iron and coal deposits from the Crown in the Lavanttal (Carinthia) in 1825.


In 1830, they founded the first steel rolling mill in Carinthia (Frantschach), in 1833-1835 they opened the most important puddle and rolling mill of the area at Praevali (Slovenia), where the first rails for the Kaiser-Ferdinand-Nordbahn railway were produced.

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