Button factory PSW

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the street view of the button factory at Alarichstrasse 18

The button factory PSW is a factory building ( address: Alarichstraße 18 ) in the Sedansberg residential area of Wuppertal ( Barmen district ) and is a listed building in accordance with Section 2 (1) DSchG NRW. It is the production site of the Bielefeld companies Union Knopf GmbH and PSW-Knopf GmbH . The latter company is also responsible for the common name Knopffabrik PSW .

history

Historical working conditions
Historical drawing of the building complex

Since 1830 button production was an important industry in the Wuppertal area.

In 1906/07 the building of the button factory Pfenning-Schumacher-Werke KG, founded in 1874, was built in two construction phases by the merchant Walter Luckhaus using steel construction. The building has three wings and a basement. It has 3 ½ floors. The building is characterized primarily by the clinker brick facade with large and numerous windows, which suggests the architecture of late historicism .

The company PSW-Knopf GmbH , which still produces there today, is named after the Pfenning-Schumacher-Werke Wuppertal-Barmen .

The entire building complex was entered on February 25, 1999 under monument number 4099 as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal.

It is also a station on the threads, colors, water, steam - part of Route 13.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Web links

Commons : Knopffabrik PSW  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '42.4 "  N , 7 ° 12' 0.7"  E