Deutz gas engine factory
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The Deutz gas engine factory is a historic company and industrial site in Cologne-Mülheim , which is known as the "birthplace of world motorization".
location
The original factory site is located in the south of Mülheim between Auenweg and Deutz-Mülheimer Straße at the height of the Mülheim harbor . The main facade extends along Deutz-Mülheimer Straße. Around 1880 the site east of Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse was opened up for the factory; Around 1890 a new hall complex was built there for the manufacture of small engines; later the large engine building halls followed on Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse, including the distinctive rounded north gable with the company name.
history
The Deutz gas engine factory, which was founded in 1864 and built here from 1867, is the eponymous predecessor company of Deutz AG, which is now based in Cologne-Porz . From 1959 to 1997 it was part of the Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz group.
Factory site
From the original buildings from the 1860s and 1870s, after the site was rebuilt from 1890 onwards, probably nothing remains above ground. A part could have been integrated into the administration building erected from 1890 in the northern area on Deutz-Mülheimer Straße. This also shows the large-format letters GFD for Deutz gas engine factory on the closed south side of a multi-storey rear wing in the masonry. The elaborate roof and gable landscape of the building was probably lost in the Second World War and the subsequent reconstruction.
To the north, the former administration is adjoined by a two-storey, elongated umbrella building with a large vertical structure along Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse, which was built around 1911 and hid the foundry complex behind it.
At about the same time as the main administration, the still preserved hall complex of the small engine construction was built east of Deutz-Mülheimer Straße, which consists of a raised central hall and two-sided shed halls with four naves each.
After the industrial and commercial exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1902, the exhibition pavilion of the gas engine factory (annex of the GHH pavilion) south of the small engine factory was also rebuilt near the Auenweg. Both components were designed by Bruno Möhring and built in the steel construction workshop of the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen-Sterkrade under Reinhold Krohn . The Möhring Pavilion can be easily recognized from the Mülheim harbor and was once marked with the company's name on its gable end.
Around 1910, after the extensive new buildings east of Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse and the relocation of essential production parts there, the site of the first factory was built over with a new foundry , which also included the Möhring pavilion. In the course of further modernization and reconstruction after the Second World War, the site was finally largely covered.
Since the 1990s, the plant has been gradually shut down and the site has been acquired by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Today, the bar on Deutz-Mülheimer Strasse owned by a real estate developer is used as the “raum13 / Deutz Zentralwerk der Schönen Künste” and made accessible to the public on various occasions, including the Open Monument Day .
Future use
The site was redesigned by two teams of architects and landscape planners together with the port of Mülheim as part of an urban planning ideas competition by the city of Cologne. The listed buildings, the Möhring pavilion and the bolt on Deutz-Mülheimer Straße, including the old administration building, are to be integrated and converted.