Coffee HAG plant I
The Kaffee-HAG-Werk I is a factory complex at the Bremen Holz- und Fabrikenhafen , which is located in the Überseestadt district of the Walle district . It was built at the beginning of the 20th century by Ludwig Roselius to produce the product Hag Kaffee . The buildings are considered an excellent example of modern industrial architecture and represent a high-ranking Bremen monument .
description
The complex of the Kaffee-HAG-Werk I in Hagstrasse and on the Fabrikenufer consists of a number of different structures which seem to follow one another at random and which do not have any representative claim. The construction using the reinforced concrete building material can be seen in places on the facade of the buildings. In terms of architectural history, the factory has shaped the reform efforts in the new factory building in the period before the First World War . At the beginning of modern architecture, this type of construction anticipated many developments that only later prevailed.
At the time of its construction, the factory received wide attention in the German Empire , as it was considered a model for modern industrial construction in the sense of the German Werkbund . Walter Gropius praised the factory building and included it in the industrial building exhibition he put together in the German Museum for Art in Commerce and Industry .
The Kaffee-HAG-Werk I had the character of a small town and had a plant fire brigade . In the various individual complexes on the company premises, 19 individual companies were temporarily located, which produced related products, such as chocolate in tubes and tins as well as aviator chocolate .
Corner of the building in the southwest with the Lloyd coffee roastery
Building corner in the southwest
Hagstrasse with Kaffee-HAG-Werk I on the left, Kaffee-HAG-Werk II on the right
Building complexes in the northeast with the Hag tower
The Hague Tower
history
The work was created in 1906 and 1907 according to plans by the architect Hugo Wagner . In 1914 and 1915 the factory complex was expanded by the Bremen industrial architecture firm Hildebrand & Günthel , which also included the marble hall . The plant was a production site for decaffeinated coffee , which was produced here for the first time in the world on an industrial scale.
After decades of use of the work for the coffee production of the son sold the company's founder in 1979, the company Kaffee HAG to the US company General Foods Corporation , which in 1981 as Kaffee HAG AG and General Foods GmbH in Elmshorn to HAG GF AG merged . In 1987, production at Kaffee-HAG-Werk I was largely ended. Most of the company buildings have been empty since 1994; part of the factory building was demolished. In 2007, a Dutch investor acquired the factory site and rented out the halls and building ensembles. The Lloyd coffee roasting company has been based in one of the earlier factory buildings since 2009 .
Web links
- Coffee king Roselius once ruled here in the Bild newspaper on April 24, 2013
- A jungle full of secrets in the Kreiszeitung on December 24, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
- ↑ Nils Aschenbeck: "Tenevers high-rise buildings in the wrong place" ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2018 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. in Weser-Kurier on February 4, 2016
- ^ Anne Gerling: Hag-Silhouette already liked Walter Gropius in Weser-Kurier from April 12, 2012
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 10.4 " N , 8 ° 45 ′ 57.5" E