Share mill Basel
The Aktienmuhle Basel AG was an industrial flour mill in the northwestern Swiss city of Basel .
history
The company was founded in 1894 by the miller Wilhelm Abt-Bader, who already owned smaller water-powered mills in the vicinity of the city. He had Basel architects Wilhelm H. Fichter-Liebi and Rudolf Sandreuter build a new building with its own steam turbine and siding on the Grand Ducal Baden Railway on Gärtnerstrasse in the Klybeck district, which went into operation in 1899 as one of the first industrial companies in the district. After a fire, the building was restored to its present form and was one of the largest mills in Switzerland, producing up to 90 tons of flour per day. Due to the high investment requirements for modernization and the low price of flour on the market, the mill was no longer competitive and lost an important customer, so that the board of directors decided to shut down in 2002. November 16, 2003 was the last day of production, after which the systems were sold and dismantled.
After a few years of temporary cultural use, the non-profit Basel Habitat Foundation acquired the building, which is now a listed building, and had it converted into workshop space for craft businesses. A restaurant has been set up in the former turbine house.
The history of the share mill is shown in an interactive documentation in the Mühlemuseum Brüglingen .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the share mill. In: website. Retrieved April 28, 2018 .
- ^ Properties of the Habitat Foundation. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 23, 2018 ; accessed on April 28, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 47 ° 34 '33.1 " N , 7 ° 35' 31.1" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven / 269 473