Cologne board

Cologne board around 1960, exhibited in the Cologne City Museum

A device for concealed hanging of curtains is called a Cologne board . Here a curtain rail or strip is mounted under a horizontally lying, approximately 15 centimeter wide support board, which is faced with a vertical, approximately 5 centimeter wide board at the front. This facing, which is also present on the sides of the carrying board, was usually profiled, gold-plated or colored; specimens that have been covered with wallpaper are also known.

The entire construction is mounted on the wall above the window opening using metal brackets or drop-in anchors, alternatively directly under the ceiling.

The Cologne board was invented in 1932 by the company owner Hugo Bohn and can still be found in old apartments.

Street sign in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

The name Am Kölner Brett on a street in Cologne - Ehrenfeld , at the time the headquarters of the developer company Messing-Müller, reminds of the name .

Individual evidence

^ Jürgen Wilhelm: The great Cologne Lexicon . Greven, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-7743-0355-3 , pp. 266 .
↑ Messing Müller: Application for bankruptcy . Kölnische Rundschau . May 7, 2003. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
^ Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 36

[1] Jürgen Wilhelm: The great Cologne Lexicon . Greven, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-7743-0355-3 , pp. 266 .

[2] Messing Müller: Application for bankruptcy . Kölnische Rundschau . May 7, 2003. Retrieved April 19, 2017.

[3] Rüdiger Schünemann-Steffen: Cologne Street Names Lexicon , 3rd exp. Ed., Jörg-Rüshü-Selbstverlag, Cologne 2016/17, p. 36