Hansa factory

Building of the former Hansa factory on the corner of Neumühlenstraße and Hansastraße in Varel, taken in 2018

The Hansa factory in Varel ( Lower Saxony ) was a factory for industrial automobile production for the Hansa automobile works and the largest automobile factory in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . The building complex on the corner of Neumühlenstrasse and Hansastrasse was used between 1911 and 1930. A listed part of the complex is still preserved today.

history

Construction of the Hansa factory began in 1909. Over the years one of the largest employers in Varel has emerged, employing over 1200 people at peak times. In 1911 the building on Neumühlenstrasse and the corner of Hansastrasse, which has been preserved to this day and is listed, was built. The semicircular, four-story building was equipped with a reinforced concrete skeleton and a mansard roof with pantile covering. The sober Art Nouveau building is one of the earliest German industrial buildings. In 1930 the Hansa factory was closed. In total, more than 10,000 automobiles were built in Varel.

Web links

• Hansa building on the homepage of the city of Varel
• nwzonline: Hansa building continues to crumble

literature

• Katrin Zempel-Bley: Museum Association wants to save Hansa-Haus. Automobile history was written in Varel as early as 1905. Kulturland Oldenburg 160 2014, pp. 2–7.
• Neumann, Harro: North German Automobile Pioneers - The History of Hansa and Hansa-Lloyd . Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-89757-239-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ varel.de: Hansa building ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 18, 2014 

Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 43.2 ″  E