Heyne brothers

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The administration building of the company Heyne was from Hugo Eberhardt designed

Gebrüder Heyne was a factory for precision turned parts and metal screws in Offenbach am Main . It was founded by the brothers Christoph Friedrich Ernst Heyne (1841-1915) and Georg Johann Heyne (1844-1908) in 1869 and went bankrupt in 1968. The listed factory buildings in the former Heyne factory near Offenbach harbor are now used by companies in the advertising, fashion and IT sectors as well as artists.

history

Factory gate of the Heyne factory, building Ludwigstrasse 180 (around 1920). Here with the hipped roof lost due to the war

The brothers Ernst and Georg Heyne, sons of a master tailor, founded the “Fassondreherei Gebr. Heyne” in downtown Offenbach am Main in 1869, which mainly produced metal screws. In 1896, production was relocated to the Offenbach harbor and the factory premises were gradually enlarged. In 1913 the company had around 400 employees, making it the third largest factory in Offenbach am Main. The outstanding product was a "screw machine" with which high-precision metal screws could be manufactured. Armaments were manufactured during both world wars , and forced laborers were also used before and during World War II . After the Second World War, the owner family continued to run the company until 1962 and then sold it to the Stinnes Group . In the meantime the company had transformed from a screw manufacturer to a supplier for the automotive industry.

In 1968 production was stopped due to poor business figures. The closure of the factory heralded the death of the traditional metal goods factories in Offenbach, a development that continued for the next two decades.

Building use after bankruptcy

Building Andréstrasse 49 of the Heyne factory

The old factory halls and the administration building were gradually redesigned by the Munich architects Allmann, Sattler and Wappner. The clinker brick buildings and the listed administrative building built by the architect Hugo Eberhardt between 1912 and 1914 now accommodate numerous companies in the advertising, fashion and IT sectors on 25,000 square meters of floor space. The converted Heyne factory received, among other awards, the Hessian Monument Preservation Prize in 1999 and was awarded the “New Life in Old Buildings” prize from Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG in the same year.

The factory is part of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main project .

Web links

Commons : Heyne-Fabrik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11 - Heyne factory. Offenbach.de; accessed on October 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Heyne-Fabrik receives Hessian Monument Protection Prize. In: offenbach.de. August 5, 1999, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Local route guide No. 9 of the Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. (PDF; 519 kB) In: krfrm.de. KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain gGmbH, December 2005, accessed on October 15, 2016 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 42.2 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 53.3"  E