Lindgens leather factory

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The Lindgens Lederwerke company building
Sign indicating the route of industrial culture

The Lindgens leather factory , formerly known as Ludwig Lindgens Lederwerke , is one of the last two leather factory buildings that have been preserved and the last leather factory still in production in Mülheim an der Ruhr . As a witness of the times, it is part of the route of industrial culture .

In 1861 Ludwig Lindgens (1827–1910) founded the company together with his wife Gertrud, née Rühl. Gertrud Lindgens (1837-1897) came from a well-known Mülheim tanner family. She brought the technical knowledge with her and managed the production until her death. Canopies and other products for horse-drawn carriages and teams were produced. In 1873 the company moved to its current location and the brick building was designed by the architect Franz Hagen . The water for production was taken from the Ruhr as bank filtrate by means of eight nearby wells.

The leather factory was only one of over 50 factories that met the need for leather articles during the industrialization of the Ruhr area. Products at that time were harnesses for tow horses, transmission belts for steam engines, protective clothing for work in the mine and at the blast furnace. The leather industry in Mülheim was able to fall back on a history of more than 200 years as a craft and small business. This is also documented in the second surviving Abel leather factory in the Leather and Tanning Museum .

The Lindgens leather factory has been a family business since it was founded. In 1994 she joined the international Seton Company, Seton Leather division. Today, the Seton leather factory produces partly in the historical factory building, partly in an outsourced building in the port area leather only for the automotive industry. Leather for the furniture industry as well as for train and aircraft equipment has not been produced since 1994. At the beginning of 2011, the sale of Seton Lederfabrik GmbH to GST Automotive was completed.

literature

  • Melanie Rimpel: Lindgens leather factory . In: Leather - Industry - Architecture, pp. 32–39. Mülheim an der Ruhr, 2004.
  • Melanie Rimpel: A name that is still produced under today - Ludwig Lindgens and Ludw. Lindgens leather works . In: Horst A. Wessel (ed.): Mülheim entrepreneurs: pioneers of the economy. Business history in the city on the river since the end of the 18th century . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-645-2 , pp. 88-100.

Web links

Commons : Lederfabrik Lindgens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GST website

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '59.6 "  N , 6 ° 52' 6.4"  E