Anker Pasta Factory
Äußere Bautzener Straße / Corner of Kirschallee
Hertha, around 1930
» There's always hustle and bustle on this little street. We work piecework in the packing department. We have barely finished packing the pasta when the next truck arrives at the ramp, is filled to the brim, and leaves straight away for the nearest grocery store or the next big city. «
Hertha, around 1930
» There's always hustle and bustle on this little street. We work piecework in the packing department. We have barely finished packing the pasta when the next truck arrives at the ramp, is filled to the brim, and leaves straight away for the nearest grocery store or the next big city. «
The Anker pasta factory owned by brothers Fritz and Joachim Schminke is a prime example of the huge increase in industrial production in Löbau. It employed 25 people in 1900. Thirty years on, Anker employed ten times more and Anker pasta had become one of Germany's best-known food brands. The company has its own fleet of vehicles and general agencies in Dresden, Leipzig, and Berlin. An army of around 100 salesmen on commission promoted Anker pasta throughout the country.
All its pasta products were packaged in its distinctive blue and orange design featuring the characteristic ‘Anker’ (anchor) lettering with the matching logo. The pasta continued to be produced under the Anker brand name during the GDR era. After 1990, the ‘Treuhand’ trust agency takes over, but production ended just two years later.
