Saxon wool yarn factory

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Site plan of the building complex
View of the strongly grown area of ​​the Sächsische Wollgarnfabrik AG, formerly Tittel & Krüger, along with award medals, around 1890.

The Sächsische Wollgarnfabrik Tittel & Krüger was a spinning mill in Leipzig . With over 100,000 square meters of floor space, it is now Germany's largest industrial monument and Europe's largest building complex from the early days . The size of the entire area amounts to 50,000 square meters.

history

In 1866, CA Tittel founded a silk, thread and tapestry shop on the market in Leipzig , of which A. A. Krüger became a partner in 1869. In 1875 Tittel & Krüger acquired a plot of land on Nonnenstrasse and set up a steam dye works there.

System of drive rods and belts in the washing and drying rooms of the Tittel & Krüger company, around 1886.
Machine room with electrical lighting from Tittel & Krüger, around 1886.

In 1887 the Sächsische Wollgarnfabrik Aktiengesellschaft, formerly Tittel & Krüger, was founded, which from 1888 onwards built further spinning mill buildings in a representative brick architecture. The first construction phase of this extension was the West Building (today's Elsterlofts). Construction of the second construction phase began in 1897. The special thing about these buildings is that they are not purely functional, functional buildings, as the architects Pfeifer & Handel (from 1893 Handel & Franke), known for their prestigious industrial buildings, received the order, an elaborate one To create architecture that went far beyond the usual in magnificence.

In 1906, large shares in the Saxon wool yarn factory were bought up by the worsted yarn spinning mill in Bremen and incorporated into the Nordwolle Group .

In 1931, Nordwolle went bankrupt and the wool yarn factory merged with the Bahrenfeld star wool spinning mill. Under the brands "Schwan", "Stern" and "Taube" the products based on zephyr , cashmere and mohair achieved a good reputation worldwide. During the Second World War , worsted short bast fiber was produced here. Wool yarn production was resumed after 1945. In 1950 the City Council of Leipzig took over the company as a trust company, and in October 1952 it was transferred to public ownership under the name VEB Leipziger Wollgarnfabrik .

The worsted yarn spinning mill Stöhr & Co., founded in 1880 in Zschocherschen Strasse, which had taken over the Leipziger Wollkammerei in 1921 and the worsted yarn spinning mill in Gautzsch in 1928 , was placed on List C in the 1946 referendum in Saxony . It became nationally owned in the form of the two independent companies VEB Mitteldeutsche Kammgarnspinnerei (Mika) and VEB Leipziger Wollkammerei (LWK) in 1948.

On January 1, 1969 the VEB Leipziger Wollgarnfabrik , the VEB Mitteldeutsche Kammgarnspinnerei and the VEB Sächsische worsted yarn mill Coßmannsdorf were merged to form the VEB Buntgarnwerke Leipzig . The Coßmannsdorf spinning mill in Hainsberg had been the majority shareholder of the worsted yarn spinning mill in Leipzig since 1927 . In 1978, 1980, 1982 and 1984 the Buntgarnwerke won the gold medal of the Leipziger Messe .

In 1990 production was stopped.

Elsterlofts and Venezia-Quartier

Elsterlofts is the current name for the so-called "Hochbau West" in Nonnenstrasse 21-21a in the Plagwitz district . Today the Elsterlofts are used as residential buildings with 185 loft units and two bridge lofts . The supporting structure of the building, designed by Pfeiffer & Handel in 1888 and expanded by Handel & Franke with an annex in 1897, consists of brick-lined steel girders together with partially steel-clad lined steel columns in a regular grid.

A building bridge spanning the White Elster connects the building west on the second and third floors with the reinforced concrete building "Hochbau Süd" at Holbeinstraße 14 in the Schleußig district , which was also converted into loft apartments in 1906 by Händel & Franke .

BUGA-Partners-Verwaltungs GmbH sold Hochbau West in 1999 to JUS AG, which converted the property into loft apartments and, in the same year, from Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG in a competition in the field of conversion and conversion of industrial, historic building stock into living space , Work and Leisure was awarded second prize. The "Hochbau Süd" was converted into loft apartments by Atrium GmbH from Hechthausen and became an EXPO 2000 project . In 2006 the Elsterlofts won the third prize of the 2006 DIFA Award as part of the “Quartier on the White Elster / Karl-Heine Canal in Leipzig” .

In the "Hochbau Mitte" building, the exclusive Venezia-Quartier residential complex with 125 apartments was built by 2013 .

  • General view of building north (front) and building west (back), street front Nonnenstrasse

  • On the White Elster in the direction of the Sächsische Wollgarnfabrik building complex

  • West building, Nonnenstrasse 21–21a, river front Weisse Elster

  • Bridge lofts between building west and building south, on the right the former boiler house

  • View into the inner courtyard between building north (left) and building middle (right)

literature

  • Ursula Herrmann, Hannes Bachmann: Plagwitz. From the history of the suburb and its industry. Council of the City District of Leipzig-Südwest, Leipzig 1986, pp. 58–61.
  • Helga Jentzsch, Thomas Steinert: Plagwitz. A historical and urban study. Pro Leipzig e. V., Leipzig 2008.
  • Open braid. Conversion of the colored yarn factories in Leipzig to loft apartments. In: Building trade. 27 (2005) H. 11, pp. 8-10.
  • Excursion "Urban renewal in Plagwitz". City of Leipzig, Office for Urban Redevelopment and Housing Promotion, Leipzig 2004.
  • Julia Susann Buhl: Study on industrial architecture in Leipzig Plagwitz 1870–1914 using the example of selected buildings. Dissertation Technical University Berlin, Berlin 2003, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 83-opus-5847 , pp. 209–217.
  • Apartments in the Buntgarnwerke Leipzig. In: Architecture + Competitions. Part 195 Newly used! Karl H. Krämer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-7828-3195-0 , pp. 62-63.
  • Ursula Seibold-Bultmann: Contrast as a drive. Leipzig's industrial monuments as a challenge. ( Memento from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung March 17, 2003.
  • Peter Fibich: The atrium of the Buntgarnwerke or living on the White Elster. In: Leipziger Blätter. (2001) 38, pp. 72-75.
  • Stefanie Sauerland: From the factory castle to the residential refuge. The colored yarn factories. In: Leipziger Blätter. Special issue EXPO (2000), p. 38.
  • Frank Dietze: Plagwitz. A Leipzig district in transition. Pro Leipzig e. V., Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-9806474-5-5 .
  • Jens Rometsch: Dyed yarn factories are about to start the final sport. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. December 16, 2005, p. 15.
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Business stationery with company views - aids in industrial archeology. In: Messages from the Saxon Homeland Security Association. 3/1997, pp. 67-71.

Web links

Commons : Sächsische Wollgarnfabrik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Venezia-Quartier ( Memento of October 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 39.9 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 32.3 ″  E