Company Gebrüder Kapferer

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The Gebrüder Kapferer company is a former Freiburg company that was founded in 1786 by the businessman Franz de Paula Kapferer.

history

The cotton factory on an etching from around 1820 (JM Schermer).

Franz de Paula Kapferer and his brother Martin Kapferer came to Freiburg from Mieders in Tyrol in the middle of the 18th century and opened a mixed goods store with a small bank there in 1763. In 1768 they became citizens of the city. In 1775 they bought three houses on Kaiserstraße at the corner of Salzstraße, after the demolition of which they built a trading and residential building for their business, with the bank gradually becoming the main business. In 1786 Franz de Paula was given permission to run the business under the name "Gebrüder Kapferer Company". In 1795 he passed the company on to his sons Franz de Paula (junior) and Heinrich Kapferer. On December 24th, 1815, they bought the provost building of the St. Margarethen monastery, which they used to start a cotton factory that existed until 1873.

The banking business was sold to Rheinische Creditbank in Mannheim in 1903 , which later merged with Deutsche Bank . After buying neighboring properties, a large Art Nouveau building was erected in the central location of Freiburg at Bertoldsbrunnen , with four different shops moving into the ground floor, while the four upper floors were intended for office use. This building was destroyed on November 27, 1944 during the bombardment of Freiburg during World War II. In 1949, a little set back, a new building was built that was rented by the fashion company Fabel. In 2018 the 17 heirs of Kapferer sold the building. As a result, the fashion company Fabel will close at the end of 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Trade and Commerce 18 Merchants' Guild for Falkenberg 1510-1867. Retrieved December 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Gallo: The “Kapferer” office building on Bertoldsbrunnen was built in 1905/06 , Badische Zeitung January 7, 2014 online
  3. ↑ Franz Josef Gemmert: The fate of the textile factories in the secularized monasteries Breisgauer shop-in-country 1959, pp 82-89 online
  4. ↑ Manfred Gallo: The “Kapferer” office building on Bertoldsbrunnen was built in 1905/06 , Badische Zeitung January 7, 2014 online
  5. ↑ Simone Lutz: "Mode Fabel" closes after change of ownership at Bertoldsbrunnen , Badische Zeitung July 31, 2019 online