Carlswerk

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Share over 1000 marks in Felten & Guillaume Carlswerk AG from January 15, 1900
Copper works in the Carlswerk
Interior view of the workshop (building 57)
The Carlswerk in 1899

The Carlswerk in Cologne-Mülheim was a production facility for contact wires, overhead line cables, line wires and power cables made of copper and aluminum. It was opened in the summer of 1874 by Franz Carl Guilleaume .

In 1904 the first transatlantic telephone cable, which connected Europe with North America, was produced by Felten & Guilleaume in the Carlswerk . In 1929 the suspension cables for the Mülheim bridge in Cologne were manufactured here, and in 1941 the suspension cables for the Rodenkirchen bridge .

The reconstruction of the Carlswerk began in June 1945, comparatively little damaged during the war . Over time, the factory continued to grow and in the 1960s offered 23,560 jobs.

After numerous restructurings and transactions, the main shareholder GEW Cologne sold its Felten & Guilleaume shares to Moeller GmbH , which was taken over by the Irish Eaton Corporation in 2008 . In December 2007, Beos GmbH acquired the unused site of the Carlswerk on Schanzenstrasse with a size of 127,000 m² in order to build a commercial campus with a mixture of office, commercial and service areas. The campus contains more than 20 buildings (built between 1896 and 1984). The centerpiece is a 103-meter-long main building from 1961, which Bastei-Lübbe- Verlag moved into in January 2010. The former coil factory, built between 1938 and 1948, was renovated by March 2009. Other important buildings are the laboratory building (built in 1922, renovated by December 2008), Quartier 2 (built in 1917, renovated by summer 2010), Quartier 1 (built in 1897, renovated by June 2009) and Quartier 4 (copper smelter, built in 1896 and renovated until August 2009). Since August 2009, users far from the port have settled here, particularly from the media industry. The first rental contracts were signed in 2011.

During the urgently needed renovation work at the location of the Kölner Schauspiel , the Carlswerk will be the alternative venue from September 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The head of the overseas business Heinrich Jülich reports on his "Travels to the Far East and Argentina 1910-1914". Edited by Amelie Berres and Thomas Berres. Münster: ATE 2003. ISBN 3-89781-051-4 .
  2. ^ Kölnische Rundschau (KR) February 27, 2013 Cologne-Mülheimer Carlswerk: Cologne's new interim quarter , accessed on February 27, 2013

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Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '59.2 "  N , 7 ° 0' 35.8"  E