Gerresheimer Glashütte
The Gerresheimer Glashütte in the Gerresheim district of Düsseldorf was formerly one of the largest glassworks in the world and the main factory of the Gerresheimer AG that still exists today . The plant in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim was closed in 2005. The logo of the Gerresheimer Glashütte, a large "G" with a crown, adorned glass bottles, canning jars, etc. from well-known bottlers such as Coca-Cola . In the heyday of the hut, over 8,000 people were employed in Gerresheim.
History of the glassworks
Until 1999 the history of the Gerresheimer Glashütte was that of the former Gerresheimer Glas AG (today: Gerresheimer AG).
The company was founded in 1864 by Ferdinand Heye , son of the businessman Caspar Hermann Heye (1792–1864), as “Ferd. Heye, Glas-Fabrik, Gerresheim near Düsseldorf ”. He ran the glassworks independently until 1888. In that year it was converted into a stock corporation . The company was renamed “Actien Gesellschaft der Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke, vorm. Ferd. Heye, Gerresheim near Düsseldorf ”. The company's share capital was set at five million marks, divided into 5,000 bearer shares of 1,000 marks each .
When Heye died in 1889 at the age of 51, the eldest of his five sons, Hermann, joined the company's board of directors at the age of 23 and took over management in 1891. In the same year, on the initiative of Pauline Heye, the wife of the company's founder Ferdinand, the Ferdinandheim with 60 rooms for retirees of Gerresheimer Glas AG was built.
In 1901 in the USA by Michael Joseph Owens , the first fully automatic bottle blow made that would have made the profession of glassmaker within a few years almost unnecessary and led to mass layoffs. To prevent this, Hermann Heye founded the "European Association of Bottle Manufacturers GmbH" in 1907. In order to prevent mass layoffs in Europe, he bought the patent rights to the Owens machine for Europe. He submitted the introduction of this machine, i. H. the conversion of the production from manual to fully automatic bottle production according to a step-by-step plan. The first Owens machine was used in Gerresheim in 1908.
Hermann Heye managed the company until his death in 1941. From then on, his son-in-law Niels von Bülow took over the management of the glassworks, as he was now the oldest member of the board.
In 1959, Owens-Illinois , based in Toledo ( Ohio ), took over 50.1% of the shares and in 1971 acquired the qualified majority in Gerresheimer Glas AG. A year later, in 1972, the company was renamed "Gerresheimer Glas AG". Between 1977 and 1979 the glassworks experienced an economic decline. As a result, the company's own social benefits were drastically cut. So were u. a. the workers' apartments partly sold, partly demolished.
From November 1985 Gerresheimer Glas AG became an independent company again. The new majority shareholder was Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB) , which bought around 58% of Gerresheimer Glas AG from Owens-Illinois. In 1990 VIAG then acquired a majority in WestLB's capital.
In 1999, Gerresheimer Glas AG sold the Gerresheim glassworks together with five other production sites to the French company BSN glasspack , a subsidiary of the French Danone group. In December 2004 Owens-Illinois acquired BSN glasspack and with it the Düsseldorf glassworks again. In August 2005, Owens-Illinois stopped glass production in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim after 141 years. In the spring of 2009 the demolition work of the Dutch demolition company "Ijzer en Metaalhandel van Groningen" began.
Field work has been taking place since September 2014. Here, the product archive of all glassware from the period from 1956 to 1974 was discovered in a former air raid shelter, which at the request of the project developer Patrizia Immobilien AG by soil archaeologists from Förderkreis industry path Dusseldorf-Gerresheim is safe and cared for.
Development of the glassmaker's quarter in Düsseldorf
The convenient location near the Düsseldorf-Gerresheim S-Bahn station makes the area of the former glassworks interesting for the urban development of Düsseldorf after its closure.
The workshop process “Perspectives for Gerresheim Süd” took place from April to June 2008. The aim was to develop new ideas for use; Planning teams and interested citizens were invited. The winning design became the basis of a preliminary development plan. The design comes from the planning team ISR Innovative Stadt + Raumplanung with landscape architect Kossel.
After the glassworks was demolished in 2009, Patrizia AG acquired 200,000 m² of the area in 2012, the remaining portion of the area is owned by the City of Düsseldorf. The area of the future glassmaker's quarter of Düsseldorf comprises a total area of 300,000 m², of which 68,000 m² are planned as open space. Between 800 and 900 residential units are to be built there.
The former area of the Gerresheimer Glashütte has been called the Glasmacherviertel Düsseldorf since September 2012 .
At the end of 2017, the site was sold to Brack Capital Properties . At the beginning of 2019, the investor presented his changes to the original construction plans, 1,600 apartments are to be built. Construction should start in 2021 or 2022 (as of June 2019).
planning
The aim is an urban planning concept that meets all the requirements of contemporary urban life and harmonizes with its surroundings. Public facilities, such as a daycare center , are also taken into account in the planning, as are spacious green spaces, convenient traffic routes and public spaces. The size of the area and its location on the railway line require a conceptual framework that organizes the location in terms of urban planning and thus ensures the overall quality.
The first draft for the urban development master plan by the rha-Richter Haas / Hannelore Kosel / Joachim Füge team is characterized by a robust and stable urban structure. The central park and the renaturation of the Düssel create a high-quality urban open space for the adjacent uses. Residential and commercial building plots as well as the integration of listed existing buildings are distributed around the central park in a location-appropriate grain size. The possibility of building in stages facilitates the marketing of the individual building plots. Since the demand of the Dusseldorf real estate market has clearly changed in the direction of urgently needed residential use since 2008, the preliminary development plan from 2008 is currently being revised.
In 2012, Patrizia announced, together with the city of Düsseldorf and the district representatives, that the master plan would be concretized as the basis of a development plan and that it would be discussed in exchange with the citizens. In 2013, the City of Düsseldorf's City Council reacted to re- urbanization and rising rents with the urban action plan housing , which provides for a quota for social and low-price housing construction. At the same time, the building concept was changed, and plans were made with 1,000 apartments, and since the beginning of 2014 even with 1,400 apartments. For the rest of the area to the west, which continues to belong to the state capital Düsseldorf, commercial space and new sports fields are conceivable. Soil remediation should start in 2014.
The traffic management is still open. The planned L404n is to lead from the Unterbacher See to Flingern. The route could lead over a new line parallel to Glashüttenstrasse, then over Rampenstrasse (railway bridge) past Gerresheim station, to Mauresköthen, Gubener Strasse, Höherhofstrasse to the intersection of Kettwiger Strasse.
Industrial monuments
From the active times of the Gerresheim glassworks there are still three industrial buildings that are under monument protection: the striking glass tower, the landmark of the old glassworks with the blue, crowned G, a boiler house and the former electrical center. These formative industrial monuments should remain visible in the future as clearly visible architectural evidence of a bygone era. The planning for the next few years will show how they can be used.
See also
literature
- Hans Seeling: Studies on Düsseldorf Economic History , Issue 1, 1964
- Bruno Kammann: Gerresheimer Glas, history of a world company (1864-2000), a contribution to the economic, social and urban history of Düsseldorf , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007 ISBN 978-3-89861-782-6
- Michael Kaufmann: glas , Ralf Schuster Verlag, Passau 2008, ISBN 978-3-940784-03-2
Web links
- glasmacherviertel.de , project developer Glasmacherviertel GmbH & Co. KG
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sensation on the glassworks site . wz-newsline.de, December 14, 2014
- ↑ Gerresheimer Glashütte: Glass discovery in the bunker arouses interest in the professional world . wz-newsline.de, December 15, 2014
- ^ Wohn-Dialog: Housing market Düsseldorf, on June 28, 2012 in Düsseldorf. ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Development plan No. 5976/025 (preliminary draft) Düssel-Park Gerresheim Süd - (Gerresheim)
- ↑ immobilien-denkmalschutz.com ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Marc Ingel: Now it goes on in the glassmaker's quarter. Rheinische Post , January 24, 2018, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Marc Ingel: The water tower moves into the center. Rheinische Post , January 24, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Gerth: Speculators prevent the construction of apartments. Wirtschaftswoche , June 20, 2019, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
- ^ Polis - the magazine for urban development , issue 02/2012, p. 60/61
- ↑ Action plan for the housing market duesseldorf.de
- ↑ Former glassworks - 1400 apartments . rp-online.de, January 17, 2014
- ↑ PATRIZIA is building over 1,000 apartments in Düsseldorf. konii.de, October 10, 2013
- ↑ Why the L 404n is being slimmed down . wz-newsline.de, November 4, 2013
- ↑ Former glassworks - 1400 apartments . rp-online.de; Retrieved January 17, 2014
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 6 ° 51 ′ 43.8 ″ E