Army canning factory
The army canning factory is a former infrastructure facility of the Mainz fortress .
The establishment of a canning factory to supply the troops with catering was suggested in 1873 by Field Marshal Edwin von Manteuffel , the commander in chief of the occupying army in France . The factory built at Mombacher Tor opposite the Neue Golden-Ross-Kaserne (Dragoon barracks ) was divided into five independent areas: mill, army bakery , vegetable processing, butcher shop with kitchen and coffee-making room.
A central boiler house with six steam boilers supplied the operating rooms with steam, while a powerful transmission system provided the power of two steam engines with an output of 150 kW to operate the machines.
The factory had large warehouses, cellars and stables for the cattle. The infrastructure included a gas works, a pumping station for the supply of fresh and cooling water and a cooling machine .
The site was placed under monument protection on August 27, 1992 by Mayor Herman-Hartmut Weyel .
source
Karl Georg Bockenheimer : Mainz and surroundings. J. Diemer, Mainz 1880
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordinance on the protection of the monument zone "Königliche Conserven-Fabrik" (PDF; 98 kB) Mombacher Straße 87–93 according to § 8 i. V. m. § 4 and § 5 DSchPflG
Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 31.7 " N , 8 ° 14 ′ 44.4" E