 Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf was the third factory of its type to emerge in Austria following the Lokomotivfabrik der Staatseisenbahngesellschaft ("StEG", Vienna) and that of Georg Sigl, the "Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik", both based in Vienna.The site of the factory, which was founded in 1869, was a piece of open land in Floridsdorf near Vienna between the North railway and the Northwest railway.The generously scaled factory site was erected in 1870/71 by Bernhard Demmer – previously technical director with the "StEG".