Cologne mechanical engineering
The Cologne-Maschinenbau AG was from 1856 to 1909 existing engineering - companies in Cologne . The production facilities in Cologne- Bayenthal continued to be operated by other companies until 1970 .
history
The Kölnische Maschinenbau- Actiengesellschaft was founded in 1856 by the engineer Martin Goltstein (1824–1867) and the businessman Gustav Mevissen ; Goltstein took over the technical management. She built machines for mining and metal works, steam engines and steam boilers , gas engines , gas engines, bridges and other iron structures. The number of employees quickly reached 1,500 people. For the three large private railway companies in the Rhineland, the company took on some extensive orders.
In the years 1866/1867 Gustav Mevissen withdrew from the board of directors and Martin Goltstein passed away in early 1867, leading to a departure from bridge building, which was described as risky and deficient. The main reason, however, was the increased competition between the bridge building companies in the Ruhr area ( Harkort , Gutehoffnungshütte ) with their close entrepreneurial ties to the metallurgical industry.
The new director Frick concentrated in particular on the "crisis-proof" area of gas plant construction, which was to remain the company's core business with customers across Europe for the next few decades.
In May 1909, the Cologne mediated bank A. Levy & Co. , the merger with the company Berlin-Anhalt engineering AG (BAMAG) that the Cologne plant as department Cologne Bayenthal continued led. In 1924, BAMAG was merged with Bamag Meguin AG , whose main shareholder had been Julius Pintsch AG since 1927 . In 1953 the companies were united under the Pintsch Bamag company .
Factory facilities
With the establishment of the Kölnische Maschinenbau-AG, an extensive industrial area was created between Bonner Strasse and the Rhine. The first plants, including the foundry that went into operation in March 1858, were located between the Rhine and Alteburger Strasse. On the other side of the street, the engineering office was the company's technical center. Behind this, more and more halls and other facilities were built, so that ultimately the main part of the company was between Alteburger, Tacitus and Goltsteinstraße. In 1888 the plant had the divisions pipe foundry, gas container factory, iron foundry, steam boiler factory, iron construction plant and mechanical engineering workshop. The first mechanical engineering workshop was destroyed by fire in 1883. In 1898, a hurricane caused considerable damage to the entire plant.
Workers' houses were built early on on Alteburger Strasse for external skilled workers, some of which are still preserved. A villa was built for the director.
In 1904 and 1905, a real estate company was founded to separate most of the reserve and spacing areas south of the plant, which had been reserved for a long time, and opened up for villa construction. To the south of the plant, the Schönhauser Allee was built with the Bismarck tower facing the Rhine. The oldest part of the plant between Alteburger Strasse and the Rhine was also given up; Among other things, a villa was built here in 1902 for the new general director Ernst Lechner according to plans by the Cologne architects Schreiterer & Below . In 1925 the area still belonging to the factory was put at 104,276 m².
Despite damage in the Second World War, the building structure of the plant was largely preserved; only the front facing Alteburger Strasse received a new face.
After the company closed in 1970, the factory premises were completely cleared and a residential complex was built by architects Fischer, Krüder, Rathai until 1977 .
Bridge and building structures
- 1857–1858: Circumferential arbor in cast iron for the Rolandseck station (engineer Emil Hartwich )
- 1858–1859: Platform hall for the Central passenger station in Cologne (engineer Rocholl)
- 1855–1859: Bridges on the Deutz-Gießen railway line ( Siegtalbahn )
- 1859–1860: Bridges on the Bingerbrück-Neunkirchen railway line ( Nahe Valley Railway )
- 1859–1860: Longhouse roof truss and crossing tower including substructure for Cologne Cathedral (based on plans by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner and Richard Voigtel )
- 1863–1864: Winter garden in the Cologne Flora (plans by Maximilian Nohl and von Arnim)
- 1863–1864: Pfaffendorfer Bridge over the Rhine near Koblenz (with Harkort bridge construction workshop , based on plans by Emil Hartwich and Sternberg)
- 1863–1865: Griethausen railway bridge on the Zevenaar-Kleve railway line over an arm of the Old Rhine near Kleve (with the Gutehoffnungshütte, based on plans by Emil Hartwich and Bendel)
- 1864–1865: Luisenbrücke ("New Bridge") in Saarbrücken (engineer Otto Offergeld)
- 1864–1865: Railway bridge over the Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr (based on plans by Emil Hartwich and Bendel)
- around 1865: Bridge of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway over the Ruhr near (Essen-) Steele
- 1867: Hall of the Ostbahnhof in Berlin (based on plans by Johann Wilhelm Schwedler )
- 1869–1870: Weissenbach Viaduct of the Austrian Rudolfsbahn
- 1878: Bell chair in the south tower of Cologne Cathedral
- 1880–1883: Choir, aisle and chapel roof trusses of Cologne Cathedral
- 1904–1905: Roofs of the main market hall on Heumarkt in Cologne (architect Otto Müller-Jena )
literature
- Pintsch Bamag AG (Ed.): 100 years of BAMAG Cologne-Bayenthal. Cologne 1956.
- Thomas Schumacher: Large construction site Cologne Cathedral. Cologne 1993.
- Alexander Kierdorf: The Kölnische Maschinenbau-Actiengesellschaft and the early iron construction in the Rhineland . In: Stahlbau, Volume 84, 2015, Issue 5, pp. 347–357.
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Steimel: Cologne Heads. Cologne 1958.
- ↑ a b Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume 2, page 2881 ff.
- ↑ Philipp Stein: 100 years of GHH bridge construction. Oberhausen 1951, p. 51.