Warburg Sugar Factory

The Warburg sugar factory was a factory founded in 1882 for the production of sugar from sugar beets in Warburg, Westphalia. It most recently belonged to Südzucker AG and was its northernmost plant in Germany.

In 1882, farmers from Warburg and Hofgeismar founded the Warburg AG sugar factory. At that time, 331 restrictive registered shares of 1,500 marks each were subscribed, which resulted in a share capital of 496,500 marks. An area south of the Warburg railway station, built in 1852–53, was developed as a site, built on and provided with a direct rail connection. This meant that both the delivery of raw materials and coal and the transport of the finished products could be carried out by rail. Transport within the factory premises was carried out by shunting locomotives, including a former Prussian steam locomotive of the T3 series with the number 896220 built by Henschel & Sohn, which was used until 1979. After that, a Köf was used as a works locomotive, which was available on the factory premises until the end, but was no longer used in recent years, as freight traffic by rail had already been discontinued.

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