Franckstrasse 5 (Ludwigsburg)

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The buildings at Franckstrasse 5 and Pflugfelder Strasse 31 in Ludwigsburg are remnants of the Heinrich Franck Söhne chicory coffee factory . They are under monument protection .

History and description

Shortly before his death, Johann Heinrich Franck ordered his company to move from Vaihingen an der Enz to Ludwigsburg. From 1868, factory buildings were therefore built in the immediate vicinity of the Ludwigsburg train station . The factory achieved its greatest structural expansion and densification in the period between 1871 and 1914. Part of the administration and production building has been preserved. It borders Franckstrasse and Pflugfelder Strasse at right angles. The building bears traces of alterations and additions between 1872 and 1883; In addition, it was redesigned in 1904 and 1910 according to plans by Friedrich Haußer . In addition to this building, the eastern wing of a once three-aisled warehouse on the railway line has been preserved from the chicory factory in Ludwigsburg. This warehouse building was built in this form in 1909; Among other things, two existing warehouses from 1868 were used for this.

Significance of the company for Ludwigsburg

Franck's company, now part of Nestlé Deutschland AG, was one of the first industrial companies in Ludwigsburg. In the monument topography of Baden-Württemberg , the chicory factory is compared, among other things, with Walcker's organ-building company , which ultimately did not have too much importance for the infrastructure of the place. In contrast, it was completely different with the "Wurzelsieder Franck", who made Ludwigsburg the "capital of the Cichoria" - a disparaging expression by Friedrich Theodor Vischer , who had no idea how decisive the "stinking steam of the Cichoria" would be for Ludwigsburg's economic development . Although the court was based in Ludwigsburg, no outstanding arts or jewelry industry had developed, as might have been expected. Other branches of the trade had also developed little.

Ludwigsburg train station around 1910, on the left the Franck factory

Franck, who had been producing in Vaihingen since 1828, was dependent on a site with a rail connection, while the city of Ludwigsburg relied on employers and taxpayers. Shortly after the construction of the factory in Ludwigsburg, 300 jobs were available at Franck. Within 45 years this number increased tenfold and continued to grow afterwards. Even before the First World War , around 30 percent of business tax in Ludwigsburg was paid by Heinrich Franck Söhne . Not only economically, but also in its expansion, Ludwigsburg experienced an upswing with the settlement of the chicory factory: By 1914, the city expanded beyond its old city wall to the west. In addition to the still preserved production building, z. B. built workers' houses in the vicinity of Pflugfelder Straße, further south of today's Franckstraße various mansions of the entrepreneurs in large gardens, which were later partly built with factory buildings. Remained are z. B. Franckstrasse 2 and 4 , which belonged to Hermann Franck.

The importance of the Heinrich Franck Söhne company for Ludwigsburg goes beyond these direct effects for Ludwigsburg; it also resulted in an upswing in other companies, can be read in the monument topography . Friedrich Hesser , who had been producing envelopes etc. in Cannstatt since 1861, supplied the packaging for Franck's products for decades from 1885. To do this, he had built a machine with which the red sleeves could be folded and rolled. The machine factory and iron foundry GW Barth , founded in Ludwigsburg in 1890, also benefited from orders placed by Franck. Among other things, in 1909/10 she built what was then the largest roasting drums for the chicory factory at the time and thus became a supplier of such products to all parts of the world. “ Industrialization , which cannot be misinterpreted as the suppression of handicrafts and an agrarian idyll using the example of Ludwigsburg , has set in for the“ belated ” city ​​of Ludwigsburg with Heinrich Franck & Sons”, can be read in the monument topography . Ludwigsburg owes its "entry into the circle of bourgeois cities" not to its local blacksmiths, saddlers, uniform tailors, etc., who of course were also needed in a garrison town, but to "the business relationships of its industry with the outside world."

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Deiseroth et al.: Monument topography Baden Württemberg. I.8.1: City of Ludwigsburg. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , p. 112.
  2. ^ Wolf Deiseroth et al.: Monument topography Baden Württemberg. I.8.1: City of Ludwigsburg. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1938-9 , pp. 51–54.

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '26 "  N , 9 ° 11' 5.2"  E