Old Luyken printing works

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Building of the old printing works Luyken, view from the south (June 2010)

The Alte Druckerei Luyken was a building in Gummersbach , which was located in the street Am Einhorn at number 2 in the immediate vicinity of the Oberberg Cathedral .

history

The location (first in the direction of the church axis, close proximity to the church garden and the old cemetery area at the church) suggests a thematic historical connection to the Oberberg cathedral. The core building, which existed in 1812 and was probably built on a much older vaulted cellar of a house possibly destroyed in one of the fires in Gummersbach, stood until it was demolished on January 16, 2012. The two sheds formerly to the right of it no longer exist today.

The building was acquired at the beginning of the 19th century by the Solingen print shop owner, publisher and bookseller Friedrich Gerhard Amberger, who set up and operated a commercial print shop as a branch of the Solingen print shop . The printing house remained in the possession of Friedrich Luyken and his son Carl , who finally sold it to Otto Waelde on October 4, 1905. In the sales contract it was regulated that the name Friedrich Luyken will be retained as long as the printing company exists.

An extension to the south was probably completed around 1835. A building file is only available after 1903. Previous files and written certificates are currently considered lost. In the striking old town area, the building was one of the oldest surviving cityscape until 2012. When Friedrich Luyken, who came from Wesel, took over the print shop on October 1st, 1837, he and the subsequent print shop owners expanded it to the north with various hall extensions.

Historical meaning

In “Das Preuss. Rhineland, presented statistically and with historical remarks by PW Mebus jun. "In 1845 it says:

“ The town of Gummersbach (1000 inh.) Is located on the brook of the same name, on Aggerstrasse, a very wooded area, on and on a hill. Gummersbach, the district town of the district, has a higher middle school, an evangel. (with two evangelical preachers), and a small catholic church. The local factories are made of cloth, and there is also a tobacco factory here. An entertainment paper, the so-called "Aggerblatt", is printed in Gummersbach for the Wipperfürth, Gummersbach and Waldbroel districts under the responsibility of an editor. Even though the town is small enough, there is a good bookshop here. (* The bookstore, lending library, book printer and the magazine, the Aggerblatt, were founded by the bookseller FG Amberger, who lives in Solingen.) A part of the town is called the "Winterbeck". The place is on the whole well and regularly built, and in the development of the flower; several large houses are listed for construction each year. "

The building had two major meanings for Gummersbach's development:

It was the house in which the first regional and national newspaper was printed, the "Aggerblatt", which was distributed from 1835 in the area of Waldbröl , Engelskirchen , Gummersbach to Wipperfürth . From 1843 the newspaper was renamed "Gummersbacher Kreisblatt" until 1869 because of the inclusion of official announcements. This also contributed significantly to the consolidation of Gummersbach as a regional center. After that it was the only newspaper for the Gummersbach region, now appearing three times a week, now under the name "Gummersbacher Zeitung", until the printing company was expropriated by the National Socialists in 1936 .

After the end of the Second World War, printing operations in the building were resumed and maintained until the beginning of the 1980s, before further expansion required a relocation to the Wiehl - Bomig industrial estate .

The second historical aspect, which is certainly no less important for the town's history, is that the foundation stone and the idea for the later so successful and largest Oberberg company L. & C. Steinmüller was laid here. The strong economic development after the war of 1870/1871 prompted Friedrich Luyken to buy an English high-speed press , which, however, could not be fully used with the existing steam generator. For the operation of the new printing press, Friedrich Luyken was looking for a powerful drive option, without which the newly acquired press could not run. The steam boilers of that time were very unsafe to operate and highly explosive. It was fortunate that Friedrich Luyken's daughter Elise had married a talented and inquisitive young engineer: Lebrecht Steinmüller (the elder) . He had grown up with his father's company, the Steinmüller paper factory, and had also dealt with the then new technology of steam engines during his training and as an engineer.

When Friedrich Luyken and his son-in-law Lebrecht Steinmüller traveled to the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 in search of the said drive machine and found no safe, efficient and affordable technology there, Lebrecht Steinmüller offered his help: "I want to build you a boiler." The result was the construction and in 1874 the commissioning of the first Steinmüller boiler in the building of the old Friedrich Luyken printing works. The original was in operation in the Alte Druckerei Luyken until 1883 and has been in the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1924 .

In the 1960s, the building was also home to the home parlor of the Lauenburg - Pomerania region . In April 2010, the hall extensions, some of which were built using lightweight construction, were demolished due to roof collapses and the risk of collapse.

Current

In the period from January 16 to 20, 2012, the remaining above-ground parts of the printing house were demolished. The former boiler room and smaller parts of the cellar facade have been preserved. However, the very old vaulted cellar of the core building was brought down without archaeological investigations being made possible, which could possibly have unearthed further settlement-historical information about the area of ​​the former printing plant that has been used in direct connection with the church building for more than 1000 years . The loss is particularly regrettable because the future height of the terrain would have allowed the vault to be preserved without any problems. A structural use of the property is not expected for the future.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Over 175 years of Luyken" - on the pages of the Friedrich Luyken GmbH printing company ( memento of the original from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.druckerei-luyken.de
  2. ↑ Water tube boiler First "Steinmüller boiler" on the website of the Deutsches Museum
  3. ↑ Article “Past gives way to future” in the Gummersbacher Rundblick from February 15, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 42.6 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 48.6 ″  E