Haarener Tuchfabrik
The Haarener Tuchfabrik was a large textile company in Haaren , which was not yet incorporated into Aachen when the company was in existence . The factory was built in 1881 by the entrepreneur Jacob Lippmann (1830–1913) and existed under changing owners as a so-called full operation with spinning, weaving, finishing and dyeing until 1970. The last factory buildings were demolished in 1992 to make space for small-scale residential developments to accomplish.
history
In 1820 the widow Wittib Lippmann came from France with her two sons Mayer (Meyer), née. 1794 in Fontainebleau , and Aaron, b. 1797 in Paris, to Aachen and registered as a tradeswoman, as was the rule according to a decree from Napoleonic times for all Jews if they wanted to pursue an independent trade. The two brothers initially appeared as traders. While Aaron Lippmann was trading haberdashery , Mayer Lippmann founded the cloth store “M.” as early as 1821 in the Zum Goldenen Stern house on Kleinkölnstraße Lippmann ”. In 1825 he married Fanny Cahn, who came from Königswinter , for the second time , and in 1839, together with his brother-in-law Nathan Marx, who was also a Jewish trader, he founded the “N. Marx & Lippmann ”, which they set up in a former copper yard on the Templergraben. Mayer's son Heinrich Lippmann, who actually worked as a banker , later took over the partnership. But in 1866 he emigrated to America with his family. The company was continued as "Marx & Sons" and later Marx & Auerbach .
Mayer's youngest son Jacob Lippmann (February 28, 1830 to June 27, 1913) had already started his own “Jacob Lippmann” cloth factory in Aachen in 1850 and was looking for a suitable site for a new cloth factory in the 1870s. He found what he was looking for in hair. On the grounds of the Entenfeld estate, which was located directly at the confluence of the Haarbach and Wurm rivers and not far from the Haaren freight station, he built the "Haarener Cloth Factory", which was opened in 1881 and of which he was the sole owner. Since 1879 Jacob Lippmann was also on the board of the Rheinische Tuchfabrik, which was merged into Haarener Tuchfabrik GmbH in 1893. Jacobs son Otto (1866–1930) became managing director in 1904 and sole owner of the company in 1925.
After the First World War , the decline of the Aachen textile industry became apparent. Sanctions and export restrictions made the individual companies difficult to create. Then there was the general economic recession in the mid-1920s. Otto Lippmann and his wife Emmy had two daughters who probably showed no interest in their father's company. In 1928 Otto sold the Haarener cloth factory to the trading company “Jos. Rummeny OHG ”. Otto died in 1930, his wife Emmy in 1942 in the Izbica concentration camp in Poland.
Josef Rummeny, son of a Kalkbrenner family from Lippspringe , had founded a weaving mill on Rudolfstrasse in Aachen, as well as the trading company. After his death in 1927, his son Karl became a partner in Jos. Rummeny OHG and bought the Haarener cloth factory a year later. In 1929 his brother Wilhelm became a partner. In the course of aryanization measures , the Jewish owners of "Mayerfeld & Herz KG" were forced to sell their cloth factory. The Rummeny company seized this and acquired additional capacities. But after the outbreak of the Second World War , the newly acquired cloth factory was closed again. In 1942 Karl Rummeny left the company. From then on, Wilhelm Rummeny continued to run it as the sole partner under his name.
After 1945 it took some time before the damaged systems could be repaired and production got back up and running. In the subsequent displacement competition, the Haarener cloth factory could not hold out for long and at the turn of the year 1967/68 the Aachen company “Jos. Königsberger KG "bought up. The Königsberger company had been active in the Aachen cloth industry since the end of the 19th century and was itself a victim of Aryanization in 1938. The family had to give up their property and flee to the USA. After 1950, however, they managed to assert their ownership claims and get their Aachen company back. In terms of hair, the Königsberg engagement did not last long. Production was stopped as early as 1970.
building
The factory buildings of the Haarener Tuchfabrik were on both sides of the Haarbach at the confluence with the Wurm. On the southern side there was the boiler house and at the front on the main street (today Alt-Haarener-Straße) there were two residential buildings, between which the access to the boiler house ran. On the other side, adjacent to Germanusstrasse and Laachgasse, were the administration and production buildings as well as the large factory hall with a distinctive sawtooth roof ( shed roof ).
Some of the cloth factory buildings destroyed in World War II were not rebuilt in this way. Essentially, only the factory hall that was needed for production was restored. After the factory was closed around 1970, the Eilendorfer cloth factory Fuss continued to use the old halls until 1974. Later, a branch of the Allkauf hypermarket chain moved into the former factory halls on Haarbach until they could move into their new building on Breslauer Straße. After that, the buildings were used by an acoustic company and a car repair shop and paint shop.
In 1992 the factory buildings were demolished, only a steel door and the tall chimney remained for a few years. After the chimney was blown up in 1999 and the steel door removed, the industrial wasteland could finally be opened for residential development.
See also
Web links
- The Haarener Tuchfabrik , in: Aachener Genealogie Info - Messages of the WGfF district group Aachen , No. 1/2018, pp. 4–8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karina Angelova / Lorenz Morez: The cloth factory Marx & Auerbach in Aachen in Rhenish industrial culture .
- ↑ a b Heiner Grysar: To Wurm and Haarbach - The Haarener cloth factory and its owners in issue 34 of the Heimatverein Haaren / Verlautenheide 1984 eV, Aachen 2019
- ↑ Harald Mühlhaus: Emmy Lippmann nee Meyer. Memorial book for the victims of the shoah from Aachen , Puchheim / Aachen 2007
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '43.1 " N , 6 ° 7' 26" E