Old brick factory (Mainz)

Mainz-Bretzenheim brickwork museum

The old brickworks in Mainz-Bretzenheim is an industrial monument that is used today as a brickwork museum and as a non-commercial educational, leisure and cultural center. It belongs to the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main Mainz which is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main .

history

At the end of the 19th century, Nikolaus Tremmel ran a field fire furnace in the immediate vicinity of rich clay deposits near Bretzenheim. Ludwig Anselm Rosbach financed a Hoffmann ring kiln in 1904 and, together with the introduction of machines, initiated the industrialization of the brickworks. In 1922 the company was modernized. Employer apartments and outbuildings were built. The brick factory ceased operations in 1972 and fell apart.

As a reaction to various commercial usage concepts, a community college working group was established in Bretzenheim, which succeeded in getting the entire area of ​​approx. 190,000 m ² with all superstructures acquired by the city of Mainz in 1978 . In 1980 the association of brickwork friends Mainz was founded. The aim and purpose of this association is to preserve the old brickworks as an industrial monument and to promote its development into a non-commercial educational, leisure and cultural center. In 1992 the old brickworks was placed under protection as an industrial monument and monument zone.

Todays use

Various facilities are located in the brickworks, including:

• the brick museum
• a location of the adult education center
• the brickwork kindergarten
• a theater workshop
• Rooms for the CJD and the BUND
• Refugee shelters

Brick museum

The brick museum in the old brickworks Mainz-Bretzenheim was developed from the findings of two amateur archaeologists. A 600 square meter room extends over the heart of the brickworks, the ring kiln in which the bricks were burned. From here, fine-grained coal was poured onto the bricks in the combustion chambers - the brick museum is now located there. The collection now includes over 900 roof tiles and bricks spanning a period of 4000 years - from prehistory to the present.

Web links

• Homepage of the old brickworks Mainz
• Homepage of the brick museum in the old brickworks Mainz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Erfurth and Kirsten Strasser: Mainz needs a welcoming culture. City is planning new accommodation for 60 refugees. Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, June 10, 2013, accessed on November 17, 2013 . 

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 29 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 11 ″  E