Industrial salon Schöneweide

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Industriesalon Schöneweide eV - Museum for Industrial Culture

The Schöneweide industrial salon is a presentation of historical technical devices and photographs in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick . The collection of material began in 1993 and focuses on evidence of the industrial history in Schöneweide . The salon at Reinbeckstrasse 9 in the Oberschöneweide district is run by the Association Industriesalon Schöneweide e. V. - Forum for industrial technology culture .

History of the collection

The starting point of today's museum collection was the company VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik Berlin (WFB), which was founded in 1945 as a laboratory, design office and research facility Oberspree (LVKO) by the Soviet military administration . A year later, the Oberspreewerk (OSW) emerged as a forerunner of the state-owned company (VEB) , which produced electron tubes and television equipment in the Peter-Behrens building at Ostendstrasse 1 . With the formation of the combine in the GDR in the 1970s, the WFB or WF for short belonged to the combine microelectronics in Erfurt . Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall , up to 9,500 people were employed here at peak times, and from 1984 to 1991 they produced around 4.5 million color picture tubes, preferably for the domestic market. After 1989 the factory was converted into a GmbH and the production of components was abandoned except for the color picture tubes. In 1993, the Korean company Samsung took over the factory and founded Samsung SDI Germany, but closed the factory in 2005. As early as the 1980s, employees at the factory began closing the last work tables, small machines and components for the manufacture of tubes before they were scrapped save. With the help of the Chamber of Technology Engineers' Association , it was initially possible to set up the Museum Technology in the tower in the main building, the Peter Behrens Building, and to operate it until 1993. The collection was then stored. After the building was sold, the collection was threatened with disposal. Former employees of the WF found suitable premises in Reinbeckstrasse and rebuilt the collection there by 2009.

Exhibition content

View into the exhibition hall
Cable drum in front of the hall

The industrial salon essentially comprises machines and devices for the production of electron tubes. Around 50,000 photographs give an insight into how the development of the tubes has changed in around 60 years since 1945. The collection also includes, for example, spot welding machines , a hollow glass thickness measuring device and devices for detecting glass stresses using polarized light . The collection also shows devices in which the plant's tubes were used, for example the EKI 1 , the first microwave oven in the GDR, or jammers that were used against the RIAS .

In addition to the exhibition part, there is also an archive with numerous archive materials such as department directories, business and financial reports, approx. 2000 research and development reports, a - so far hardly processed - press photo archive, editions of various company newspapers, including all editions of the WF-Sender, the company newspaper of the works for telecommunications / television electronics from 1949 to 1990 and the complete photo archive of the photo office except for the year 1953 WF with photos from 1945 up to the closure of the photo site in May 1990. Some of the holdings, especially the collection of the photo site, are accessible online at Museum-digital .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flyer for the permanent exhibition in the Schöneweide industrial salon: Electronic tube show - technology, production, application
  2. ↑ Oberschöneweide at a glance. On berlin.de, accessed on May 21, 2012 ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Karin Schmidl: Second Life In: Berliner Zeitung of June 21, 2011, accessed on May 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Alexandra Gdanietz: In the family tree of industry In: the daily newspaper from September 11, 2009, accessed on May 21, 2012.
  5. ↑ Relics of industrial history at industriesalon.de, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Electronic tube show at industriesalon.de, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ Information sheet on the Schöneweide industrial salon at industriesalon.de, accessed on May 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ R. Drescher: This box switched off the class enemy In: Berliner Zeitung . dated July 15, 2011, accessed May 21, 2012.
  9. ↑ WF department directories available on museum digital. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Issues of the company newspaper available on museum-digital. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Photos from the WF's photo office available at museum digital online. Accessed January 30, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '36.6 "  N , 13 ° 31' 9.1"  E