The 4th SEC Technology Tour took a group of senior chemists (GDCh Senior Expert Chemists and VAA Werksgruppe Industriepark Wolfgang) to Erbach im Odenwald on Aug 26, 2011. Despite the long journey and a bad weather report, the tour was almost fully booked with 32 participants.
Einhard belonged to the large group of the intellectual elite of Europe at the court of Charlemagne in Aachen. He was particularly close to Karl and was his biographer. After Karl's death he was given a considerable part of the Muhlinheim area, today Seligenstadt, and built a church "of not inglorious kind" as his burial place in Steinbach near Michelstadt. It is still preserved today and with the basilica in Seligenstadt and the Königshalle in Lorsch are among the last remaining Carolingian buildings north of the Alps. Together with the tour guide, the seniors were able to admire the fine Carolingian masonry, the originally preserved nave and even remnants of Carolingian frescoes. Another interesting story is that things turned out differently with Einhard's grave.
The excursion ended with a tour of the Koziol company, now one of Erbach's largest employers. The exciting thing about Koziol is not so much the technology, but its creation. This company also started carving ivory. After 1945, however, cheap mass products were in demand, and Bernhard Koziol made souvenir items. The big hit was the snow globe, which Mr. Koziol was supposedly inspired to make by looking out of the pretzel window of his VW Beetle into the snow-covered Odenwald. Thanks to the consistent restructuring of the product range, Koziol is now playing in the concert of the great product designers: "Designed in Odenwald." The list of international design awards is remarkable.
After a look into Koziol's modern injection molding hall, visitors to the "Koziol Outlet" were able to get an idea of the many funny ideas of the Koziol designers for themselves. An egg cup in the suggested shape of an iPod from the company with the apple achieved particular fame. In August 2010, Apple successfully sued the use of the name. The egg stand is now also being sold under the name "Pott 2.0"; the corresponding cardboard box is decorated with a decapitated egg - not remotely resembling a bitten apple.
SEC Technology tours are currently being organized by Wolfgang Gerhartz, Tel 06251-938558. Suggestions for the design of future excursions are welcome.
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