Konstantinstraße 303 (Mönchengladbach)

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Administration building of the former cotton mill
Administration building of the former cotton mill

On the property Konstantinstraße 303 in the district Giesenkirchen in Mönchengladbach , Nordrhein-Westfalen , are the buildings of the former cotton mill Pferdmenges & Scharmann .

The industrial complex was built from 1907. The preserved buildings were entered on May 18, 2010 under No. K 095 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The property is located on Konstantinstrasse - the former main street - east of the town center between Dycker Schelsen and Giesenkirchen. To the west of it, in a park, is Heinrich Pferdmenges' former entrepreneur villa, the "Haus Langmaar", Konstantinstrasse 283/285 .

North of Konstantinstrasse is the orthogonally organized factory of the former cotton mill with the earlier buildings for administration, power generation and production.

architecture

The time frame of the building stock extends from 1907 (presumably chimney substructure, possibly shed zones) to the 1940s / 1950s. Only the former administration building on Konstantinstraße is inscribed with a date (to 1921), but its function could have been more diverse both originally and in the course of its history.

Administration building

The road to the gable permanent , two-story brick building at a steep gable roof shows werksteingerahmte transverse rectangular window openings and Konstantin street a deepened over captured with half-round profile in stone portal . The wooden door itself has two leaves in neo- rococo forms , such as B. known from simultaneous buildings by the architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot . To the west, in the same shape, is a smaller doorway, followed by an oculus . The steep gable roof in north-south direction is cut on the east side by a gable with a simple brick cornice above the side entrance, which is in turn exposed by a group of sandstone-framed windows . To the west is a single-storey, eaves- long wing building, located parallel to Konstantinstrasse. The gable roof is broken through by a long, flat roof dormer .

Boiler house

No documents are available on the building history of the buildings delimiting the courtyard side in the north and serving to generate energy. Presumably these are replacement buildings after war destruction, data on this are not known.

Machine house

The front of the machine house is characterized by an astonishingly modern, puristic appearance. At first glance, one could assume that one of the classic masters of modernism was the draftsman. The completely flat brick surface is stereometrically smoothly cut through by two by three narrow-high, large arched windows - a laconic and minimalism that is astounding in this context. Nothing is known about the building history of this facade, but it is recognizable that it was created in two construction phases. A vertical dividing line separates brick surfaces with slightly different colors and textures. For passers-by, this uncompromising cube is the most eye-catching element of the entire factory, a facade with an almost festive character. Behind this raised, unifying wall panel, two parts of the former machine hall are hidden under their own saddle roof.

Shedhalle

A shed hall of the former spinning mill follows the machine or turbine house to the east and the Winkelbau to the north . Nine sheds have been preserved in their current form. Its construction shows cast-iron supports with double-T profile girders on which wooden rafters rest, which support the roof area and the north-facing window zones. The cast iron column heads show flanges for the transmission devices , which were necessary before the introduction of the individual machine drive by electric motors in order to enable the power transmission from the central drive of the steam engine to the individual work machines.

Two-storey angular building as the north and east boundary of the work yard

The narrow, two-story angular wing of low building depth, which delimits half of the north and east sides of the work yard, is also of high quality, determined by modernism in 20th century architecture. Here, too, window openings delimited flush at right angles are cut into the smooth brick surface. In the north they are grouped in pairs on the first floor, to the east at regular intervals with larger openings on the ground floor. Together with the architecture of the 1920s and the supplementary buildings that arose after the Second World War , they form a convincing ensemble in terms of material and design.

Boundary wall in the south of the workshop

The man-high boundary wall that swings in a quarter circle to the factory entrance is of historical value. Raised by six stone layers compared to an older wall, it shows facilities on the inside of the courtyard that could be interpreted as elements (troughs or drinking troughs) of the earlier horse-drawn vehicle operation .

General

The name of the long-established Pferdmenges family was already well known in the context of the textile industry in the early 19th century. On the basis of a flour, oil and lumber mill acquired in 1846, which belonged to Rheydt Castle , Johann Heinrich Pferdmenges founded a mechanical weaving mill in 1865 under the company H. Pferdmenges jr. He produced suit and trouser fabrics with English machines and expanded the business in 1875 with the construction of a new weaving and dyeing works as well as facilities for steam engine operation. The company existed until 1968, which then became part of the mechanical silk weaving mill in Viersen . In 1907, another member of the family, Heinrich Pferdmenges, founded a company that initially operated under the name of Pferdmenges & Keller , and later as Pferdmenges & Scharmann . The location of this new establishment was Giesenkirchen, which at that time was still predominantly agrarian. In order to get the area at what was then Hauptstrasse 175 together, the municipal administration brokered the sale of private and church land. The newly founded company found a certain textile basis, since in Giesenkirchen, in addition to the brick making industry , the home weaving industry was also flourishing.

Around 1880, 384 weavers made up this trade with # percent of the resident population, in neighboring Schelsen 205 of 1404 residents were employed in the weaving mill. In line with the general economic development, the industrial age dawned for Giesenkirchen in 1864 . In both communities, it was predominantly stocking weavers when the first homeworkers became factory workers after the Bresges company was founded in Zoppenbroich . As a result, textile factories also settled in Giesenkirchen: in 1897 the Otto Klöters wool spinning mill on Hauptstraße (Konstantinstraße) and in 1898 the Mühlen, Peltzer & Co. spinning and dyeing works . The third company was founded in Giesenkirchen in 1907 by Pferdmenges & Scharmann . For the year 1962 500 employees are stated, in 1969 it was 350 to 400, so a considerable amount for Giesenkirchen.

The system has been preserved in a good to adequate condition in terms of building history and documentation, and its historical functions and functional operational processes are clearly legible. After the original production purpose had been abandoned, the system was largely used sensibly and in accordance with monument protection standards for decades. The protection does not stand in the way of these intentions.

The above-mentioned components are a monument in the sense of § 2 DSchG NRW . There is a public interest in the maintenance and use of the facility. The object is important for human history and for cities and settlements . There is a public interest in its preservation and use for scientific, especially artistic reasons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 16.3 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 55.1"  E