Aachen scratching factory Cassalette
The Aachener Kratzenfabrik Cassalette is a family business founded in 1822 for the production of scratches . Its name goes back to the Cassalette family, whose roots lie in the village of Dolhain , which at that time belonged to the Département de l'Ourthe .
Peter Joseph Cassalette
Peter Joseph Cassalette (* 1789 in Dolhain; † 1849 in Aachen) came to Aachen as a cloth manufacturer at the beginning of the 19th century from Dolhain, where he founded his scratching factory in 1822. He built it in the Zum Horn house at Jakobstrasse 24, a house built in 1659 and expanded in 1757 by Johann Joseph Couven in the Rococo style . By 1845, the company had grown to become the largest scratch factory in Aachen. Already before that, in 1837, the Cassalette , who had meanwhile been appointed to the Council of Commerce , was also listed as a shareholder in the “AG Drahtfabrikkompagnie zu Aachen und Eschweiler” . He was married to Marie Anne Laurenty, whose son Jacques Joseph Cassalette (born September 26, 1812 in Dolhain) later continued the company.
Jacques Joseph Cassalette
After the company takeover, Jacques Joseph Cassalette managed to continue expanding the company. The decisive factor for this was that, together with the Cologne-based company Felten & Guilleaume, after many years of attempts, he succeeded in developing scrapers made of steel wire, which have now completely replaced the iron wire scrapers that were previously used. In addition to his company management, Jacques Joseph, who has meanwhile also been appointed to the Council of Commerce, was also a member of the board of the Rheinische Eisenbahn and president of the Aachen Commercial Court . He was married to Jeanette Hermann from Burtscheid , daughter of the dye works owner and member of the city council and mayor Nikolaus Hermann. Their son Eduard (1840–1891) later took over the scratching factory in the third generation.
Eduard Cassalette
Eduard Cassalette, married to Marie Nellessen (1851–1888), daughter of the cloth manufacturer Theodor Nellessen and Josephine Lingens, relocated the production of the flourishing company, now known as Cassalette & Co. , to Oligsbendenstrasse 22 in Aachen from 1874.
In keeping with his status, Eduard Cassalette had a new city palace built by the Aachen architect Eduard Linse between 1883 and 1888 , the Villa Cassalette , today's Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum . Since his wife Marie died shortly after the completion of the villa and Eduard himself followed her into death only three years later, on January 27, 1891, they left five children of five, seven, nine, 12 and 17 who were still underage Years. The Villa Cassalette was initially occupied by the police director and later police chief Guido von Matuschka-Greiffenclau , before the city of Aachen became the owner of the city palace in 1898. The factory itself was continued by the community of heirs and the shareholders.
Development from the turn of the century
In 1906 Cassalette & Co. merged with AGHermann under the management of Antoine Hermann and now operated under the name Aachener Kratzenfabrik Cassalette & Cie / AGHermann GmbH . This made it possible to advance the expansion of the individual departments and to coordinate the various branches of manufacture with one another. As a result, the still existing dependence on foreign countries, especially England, could be lifted and, in return, the company's own exports could be boosted internationally. In addition to scraper fittings for the carded yarn industry, worsted scrapers, asbestos scrapers, scrapers for jute and hemp spinning, cigarette scrapers, as well as needle scrapers and rough scrapers for wool and cotton roughing and hat manufacture have now also been created.
In 1924 the still prospering company acquired the needle factory built by Arnold Herren in 1902 at Krefelder Strasse 147. Here Cassalette & Hermann set up a new mechanical engineering department in order to be able to manufacture the machines required for the scratching production itself. The company operated this system until the Second World War . In 1942, a boiler certificate for the subsequent Anton Kinting uniform factory was finally recorded at this address , and from 1954 the Aachen linen factory Schlichting took over this factory, which it also became owner in 1959.
literature
- Aachener Kratzenfabriken Cassalette & Cie.-AG Herman GmbH Aachen. In: Albert Huyskens (arr.): Aachen. (= Germany's urban development . ) 1st edition, Deutscher Architektur- und Industrie-Verlag (DARI), Berlin-Halensee 1922, pp. 159–161. / 2nd edition, DARI, Berlin-Halensee 1925, pp. 242–245. / 3rd edition, DARI, Berlin-Halensee 1928, pp. 162-163.
- Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Jansen: The Aachen East Cemetery. Mayer, Aachen 1991, p. 334 (Ostfriedhof).
- Hartmut Schainberg: The Belgian influence on early industrialization in the Aachen area, approx. 1820-1860. Dissertation, University of Trier, 1997, p. 189, p. 281.
- Peter Johannes Droste , Michael Käding (ed.): Made in Aachen. Erdtmann, Herzogenrath / Aachen 2000. S. 37ff. (out of print, online as a PDF document )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Address book for Aachen and Burtscheid . Stercken, 1885, p. 69 .