For 341 years, textiles were manufactured at this location ? and subsequently tobacco. Founded in 1850 as an emergency measure, the tobacco factory came to symbolise economic upturn through progress. In 2001 the British Gallagher Group bought the company and sold it to Japan Tobacco International. The Japanese owners shut down operations in 2009. The City of Linz subsequently repurchased the 38,148 m² factory complex.
