Bremen chair tube factory Menck, Schultze & Co.
The building of the former Bremen chair tube factory Menck, Schultze & Co is located in Bremen , Findorff district, Bürgerweide district, Admiralstrasse 96 / Herbststrasse. It was built around 1903. The building has been a listed building in Bremen since 2010 .
history
In 1876 there was a small backyard factory and the trading office at Philosophenweg 22 in the suburb of the station . At the end of the 19th century around 1890 the company moved. From the Admiralstrasse area to the Plantage street on Herbststrasse, the company expanded considerably in several construction phases; So around 1890 the chair cane laundry was added.
Before that, the country estate of the merchant Eberhard von Hoorn had existed here since around 1750 and in the first half of the 19th century there was a restaurant in the manor park. After the construction of the railway lines and the stations after 1863, the area was used for residential construction, especially for railroad workers, as well as the track systems for commercial purposes and buildings. A network of streets was created.
The three-storey, clinker-brick commercial building (House 1) with a flat roof , a basement and a stone -clad bay window for offices on Herbststrasse was built around 1903 in the era of historicism and at the turn of the century with the then address Herbstraße 31. At the front as a head building on Herbststrasse were the offices, behind them the factory. The industrial plant used to be significantly larger. The main building, originally on Admiralstrasse 41-axis, still had four floors on Herbststrasse with two tower-like corner formations, which probably served as offices. The architecture is reminiscent of the architecture of train stations, power stations or slaughterhouses. Today's 13-axis facade on Admiralstrasse is structured by six overarching segmental arches.
Was manufactured and processed u. a. Cane, known as the Malay -englischen term rattan or Spanish cane or rattan cane . The pipe from Southeast Asia was split, dyed and resold to the pipe furniture and wicker industry. The factory once employed around 1,000 people. She continued to produce until 1956.
During the Second World War , significant parts of the chair tube factory were bombed, such as a. the construction phases built around 1890. Part of the main building and a one-story production wing were preserved.
The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen wrote: “The ... industrial plant is a testimony to the flourishing tubular chair manufacture in northern Germany at the turn of the 20th century ... The ... commercial building is a typical example from the time of advanced industrialization after the turn of the century, as modern forms of construction such as reinforced concrete skeleton construction a machine production ... made possible. "
Today (2018) part of the building is used commercially as a furniture store. The company Menck, Schultze & Co KG (Property Management) is still in the main house. The Westphal architectural office has been based here since 2014.
literature
- Hans-Peter Mester: Findorff 1860–1945 - a photographic foray . Bremen 1999.
- Silke Hellwig: The Bremen chair tube empire . In: Weser-Kurier of June 22, 2015.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 26.2 ″ N , 8 ° 48 ′ 20.1 ″ E