GBS cultural center
The GBS cultural center was put into operation in 1998 in the former buildings of the Greven cotton spinning mill (GBS) on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in Greven, which was closed in 1993 .
function
The center houses the largest event space in Greven, which opened in 2000, the ball warehouse , the event space Kulturschmiede (in the former smithy) as well as the music school , the adult education center and a youth café in the former boiler house.
Education providers work on the upper floor of the forge and the administration building, primarily concerned with integrating young people into the labor market. On the ground floor of the administration wing, Lebenshilfe e. V. get new rooms. A group of children from Lebenshilfe is housed in the porter's lodge in the administration building.
At the end of 2006, the last phase of the conversion of the Greven cotton spinning mill was completed. A children's, youth and cultural center opened in the former carding room . As a central point of contact for young people, the Karderie offers both leisure-time education and youth-cultural offers. In addition, employees are dedicated to establishing the Greven district youth work.
architecture
The ensemble consists of the renovated, historically most interesting parts of the factory building around an inner courtyard. The extensive production halls of the textile industry were demolished.
After a fire in 1900, the factory buildings were rebuilt in a fundamentally different way from 1913 onwards according to the plans of the Stuttgart industrial architect and building counselor Philipp Jakob Manz (1861–1936). The First World War resulted in significant delays, and construction dragged on until 1927. Despite considerable renovation work between 1930 and 1970, the typical architectural details of the buildings were preserved and were preserved by the current renovation work.
The dust tower in the northwest (1913) is now used as a staircase. It looks like a corner tower of the Karderie extending to the north, a two-story low-rise building with high cast-iron lattice windows.
Right next to it rises the gable of the boiler house built in 1927. A red brick chimney rises well above the 18 meter high gable of the boiler house. It stands free in the northeast corner of the courtyard. It was retained as the last of the many “smoking chimneys” that once shaped the Greven townscape. However, in the course of the conversion to the GBS cultural center, the upper meters had to be removed for safety reasons.
At right angles to the Karderie-Kesselhaus line, the inner courtyard is bordered to the east by the former administration building from 1920. Right in the corner between the boiler house and the administration building, somewhat hidden behind the chimney, is the entrance to a two-story low-rise building, which is barely visible from the inner courtyard. A forge and locksmith's shop were located on the ground floor and laboratories on the upper floor.
In the former forge was in the renovation and modernization of the event location Kulturschmiede the old Esse received.
The former warehouse, a single-storey building with a hipped roof, nestles around the south-eastern corner of the Ballenlager from 1920 and continues - becoming increasingly narrow - along the south facade. The bale warehouse itself is an imposing brick hall with a hipped roof with an area of approx. 30 × 15 m and is 16 m high. The facades are structured by pilaster-like pillars made of red brick; The fields in between were set back and made of light-colored stone, in the upper fifth of which narrow windows let light into the large warehouse above a graceful windowsill cornice and under an overhanging eaves.
The west facade of the Ballenlager is not built at right angles to the other outer walls, but follows the former course of the Ems. The river was the western limit of the GBS property until it was straightened and dyed between 1952 and 1955.
Connected to the north facade of the Ballenlager by a short entrance area, structurally and stylistically but clearly separated from it, a modern low-rise building with the artist's cloakroom required for the event room was built.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 42 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 23 ″ E