Enke factory

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View from the northwest

The Enke-Fabrik is an ensemble of former factory buildings in the city of Cottbus (State of Brandenburg ), on an 8000 square meter property on the corner of Briesmannstrasse and Ostrower Platz. The facility was built from 1890 and is now a listed building . The building has been converted into a residential building since 2016.

history

The first factory was built between 1890 and 1891 on behalf of the machine manufacturer Viktor Sterz. In 1900 Otto Enke acquired the property and set up a business book factory with a large bookbinding and printing shop. For the first time, the original factory building on the south side was expanded in 1908 by a corner building that extends to Ostrower Platz. In 1919 Otto Enke bought a part of the area adjacent to the north from the cloth manufacturer Robert Förster, which he had built in 1922/1923. In 1924 the factory building was expanded by seven axes. Around 1920, the Lausitzer Landeszeitung used parts of the factory building as a printing and publishing house. After the Second World War, the equipment in the accounting factory was dismantled in 1945 as part of the reparation payments . Changing owners let the factory buildings deteriorate in the following years. Still not renovated, the buildings are empty today. New usage concepts, drawn up by the Ostrow owner site association (ESG), are currently being examined. With the new concept, the first apartments in the complex were completed by a private investor in 2016 and the expansion of the former factory will continue in 2017.

architecture

main building

View from the southwest

This factory building is a four-storey exposed brick building with a flat gable roof . The ten-axis side of the street shows a multi-layered, strictly axial wall structure with neo-Gothic decorations. The two middle floors are grouped together by sloping cornices, accompanied by decorative strips with three-pass profiles . The middle floor windows are of segmentbogig framed completed Blend fields. The fourth floor is enlivened by pilasters decorated with round bars . There is a stepped eaves cornice above the notched frieze and the console frieze . All windows have a segmental arch and profiled frames. On the second floor, the parapet surface is highlighted by inlaid shaped stones with a four-pass profile. The two right outer axes are designed as a risalit with battlements .

Southern extension

This corner building attached to the south is a reinforced concrete construction in which facing clinkers were used for the facade for the first time in this ensemble. The eight-axle side wing on Briesmannstrasse has a flat roof and the four-axle one on Ostrower Platz has a Berlin roof . The slightly higher corner of the building has a steep mansard hipped terrace roof. The structure of the street facades resembles the first factory building and is modified with white plaster panels and glaze stones. The covers of the sills of the multi-part segment arched windows are glazed green. The lintel zones of the windows on the first floor are accentuated by a row of vertical plaster panels. On the top floor, two narrow windows each take up the axis of the lower floor. These are framed by half-round bars made of alternating red and green glazed shaped stones. The south facade is adorned by a side projecting with a hipped diaphragm . The metal gate with exposed rivet fields and geometric profile fields enables entry from Briesmannstrasse. The third and fourth floors are enhanced by elaborate pilaster strips , varied plaster ornaments and decorative round towers adorned with plaster panels and glaze stones on the house edges. A crenellated wreath forms the end of the facade with a small hipped roof with a closed attachment. The slightly recessed mansard area of ​​the roof behind the eaves is highlighted by a ribbon of windows. The central axis is located on the south side of the corner building with an overlying Zwerchhaus .

Northern extension

The northern extension has a Berlin roof with elongated side wings facing the courtyard. Its facade structure as well as the selection and arrangement of the building decorations were based on the model of the building from 1908. The middle four axes are framed by similarly decorated turrets that carry a dwarf-like attachment. This attachment is flanked on both sides by roof towers .

General

The courtyard fronts are structured by closely lined up window axes and frieze cornices. The falls are emphasized by rolling layers . Stairway projections enliven all three parts of the building. Inside, parts of the wooden or cast iron supporting structures of the hall ceilings and the staircases have been preserved. A chimney over a polygonal base dominates the single-storey boiler house, which is attached to the central building.

meaning

The ensemble is the most representative factory architecture of historicism in Cottbus. The high aesthetic standard is unusual for production buildings. It becomes evident in the successful individual design of the individual buildings and the use of imaginative architectural decorations borrowed from the Gothic . In addition, the builders showed themselves to be innovative with the first change from masonry construction to reinforced concrete skeleton construction . Due to the corner location, the ensemble is also of urban development importance.

Conversion to a residential building

Construction status March 2019

In 2016, the city of Cottbus announced that it had issued permits for the conversion of the Enke factory into a residential building. In a first construction phase, medium-sized and large loft apartments were built in the south wing by 2018. As a second section, the main building is to be converted. For the north wing, the client is still in negotiations with the city regarding the design of the gable facing the old town. A total of around 40 apartments and a retail space will be housed in the factory building.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enke factory. Accessed August 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Private investors are planning around 1000 apartments in Cottbus. Message on the website of the City of Cottbus. June 22, 2016, accessed on November 12, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Closing the gap in the heart of the city. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 12, 2018, accessed on November 12, 2018 (German).

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 24.8 "  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 12.1"  E