Schwarzkopf factory
The Schwarzkopf Factory or Perfumery Factory Schwarzkopf , today Alboin-Kontor , is a former factory site on Alboinstrasse in southern Berlin-Schöneberg . The listed building was the Schwarzkopf company's first factory building and was used by the company until 1994. The building was erected between 1928 and 1930 under Carl Mackensen . The steel frame building with clinker facade is a building of brick expressionism .
The building was built around an inner courtyard. The former five-story factory wing forms its rear part to the west. Two two-story L-shaped administration buildings enclose the north and south sides. On the east side, facing the street, the two administration wings are connected by a representative entrance. The Schwarzkopf company name was originally on this, today the name Alboin-Kontor is attached there. The tower structure dates from 1936, when the administration wing was also increased by one floor and given a hipped roof. Since the renovation in 1936, a head outline, the Schwarzkopf, has been enthroned in the transparent spire. After the building was converted, it was replaced by a silhouette of King Alboin , after whom the street and office are named.
In the 1930s, the building was state-of-the-art and had, among other things, a telephone system, assembly lines, modern ventilation systems, etc. During the Second World War , there was a forced labor camp here. The plant was badly damaged during the World War and rebuilt after the war.
Schwarzkopf had the factory built after the original Charlottenburg premises had become too small for the company. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was the first German manufacturer to produce powder shampoo and invented liquid shampoo in 1927 . The demand for the product called Schaumpon at the time enabled Schwarzkopf to build a large factory site south of the S-Bahn ring. Various dry and liquid shampoos and hair care products were manufactured in the factory. It also housed the world's first industrial training center for hairdressers . The cold wave was also developed there. Schwarzkopf had shampoo manufactured in the plant until 1994. However, after the reunification of Berlin and the discontinuation of the Berlin subsidy, the plant closed in 1994. Today the building is used by various businesses, primarily as office and storage space. The owner is Aroundtown Property Holdings .
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicole Vergin: Berlin Senate supports further education: Schwarzkopf: Retraining before the plant closes , Berliner Zeitung February 11, 1994
- ↑ Anonymous: Liberated from electricity , Spiegel 28/1948 July 10, 1948
literature
- Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-422-03111-1 , page 521
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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '56.9 " N , 13 ° 22' 10.8" E