Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik Polte

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Aerial photo of Plant II from 1920

The buildings of the Magdeburg Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik Polte , also known as Werk II or Neues Werk , in the Stadtfeld West district are listed as architectural monuments in the local monument register under registration number 094 17394 . It was one of three plants of the Polte-Werke in Magdeburg.

General

The factory premises included the addresses Liebknechtstrasse 65, 75, 77, 97 and Westring 50, 56. The premises had its own rail connection and is now part of the Schlachthof industrial estate.

history

The armaments production of the Polte works had to be expanded considerably at the beginning of the First World War . Therefore, the decision was made to buy and build a new factory site in what was then Magdeburg's Wilhelmsstadt (today Stadtfeld West). The new plant in today's Liebknechtstraße (formerly Poltestraße after the founder of Polte-Werke, Eugen Polte ) was designated as Plant II. The management moved into the newly built office building of the building complex. With the closure of the main factory, which specializes in ammunition production, in the post-war period and after the dismissal of 11,750 employees, Plant II was the last remaining plant of the Polte-Werke.

description

Following from north to south, on Liebknechtstrasse was the four-storey, two-legged office building (Liebknechtstrasse 65) with a five-storey corner section, which also contained the main entrance. The facade was not lavishly decorated, but the clinker brick was recognizable. This was followed by a single-storey porter building and a four-storey factory building (Liebknechtstrasse 65) with an archway and a four-storey factory building with a training school (Liebknechtstrasse 75 and 77).

In the back work area, a warehouse and a carpentry shop, which from 1924 to 1926 by the architect were Bruno book from Berlin emerged. These were two cubic reinforced concrete buildings with red clinker facing and flat hipped roofs . The warehouse building was seven storeys high, six full storeys and an attic storey. The joinery, on the other hand, had three floors. Both buildings were connected by a two-storey connecting bridge and had tower-like structures for the elevator shafts. The buildings were inspired by the 1923 extension of the Moritz Samuel Esches stocking factory in Chemnitz , which is now a technical monument .

The fire station was located west of the warehouse and carpentry shop. The building was constructed in 1937 based on a design by the architect Curt von Brocke. It was a five-story reinforced concrete structure with a cellar and a riser tower in the northwest corner of the building. This building too had red clinker facing and a hipped roof. The four gates were on the north side, but are no longer restrained today.

There was a three-aisled press hall (Liebknechtstrasse 65) in the eastern plant area near the Westring. The building was designed by the architects Max Behrendt from Magdeburg and Paul Ranft from Leipzig as a red brick construction with iron framework during the new factory building in 1915 and was completed in 1928.

Plant II also included two so-called civil servant houses (Westring 50 and 56). These were built in 1916 according to plans by Max Behrendt and from 1924 to 1925 according to plans by Bruno Buch.

The entire facility of the former Polte company is considered a very impressive ensemble of industrial architecture from the 1920s.

memorial

After the Second World War , a memorial plaque was erected at Liebknechtstrasse 65 for the victims in the two satellite camps of the Magdeburg Polte-Werke.

Web links

Commons : Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik Polte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  2. ↑ Polte was founded 50 years ago. Anniversary of the respected Magdeburg machine factory. It started with 23 workers. In: Magdeburgische Zeitung from 6./7. April 1925, 7th supplement / no. 177 (176) (quoted from: Martin Nathusius; Die Magdeburger Linie. ..., see bibliography (p. 103))
  3. ↑ In retrospect, the later managing director of Polte-Werke, Martin Nathusius, referred to the remaining 250 employees as a "clean-up command". - Martin Nathusius: The economic structure of the Magdeburg-Anhalt district. (= Magdeburg cultural and economic life. No. 8.) Magdeburg 1936, p. 16.
  4. ^ Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik Polte , Monument Register City Magdeburg, accessed on October 9, 2018
  5. ↑ According to Reinhard Jacobs: Terror under the swastika - places of remembrance in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Study on behalf of the Otto Brenner Foundation, Berlin 2001, p. 39. ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 394 kB)

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 18.8 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 11.7 ″  E