Lederwerke Doerr & Reinhart
The Lederwerke Doerr & Reinhart was a leather factory based in Worms .
founding
The factory was founded in 1840 by the tanner Nikolaus Andreas Reinhart (1809–1871) and the traveler Johann Baptist Doerr as a leather lacquer factory in Worms. The only remaining building is the former administration building at Schönauer Strasse 5 in Worms. The three-and-a-half-storey building with a hipped roof was built in 1923/24 according to plans by Philipp Holzmann in a mixture of Art Nouveau and Heimatschutzstil and is a listed building.
development
Due to the economic boom during this period, the factory quickly expanded beyond the city wall to the south of Worms. Initially founded as a pure leather lacquer factory, it was decided shortly after the establishment and rapid expansion to produce leather in the factory. A few years after it was founded, around 9,000 people were employed in the leather production facilities in Worms, together with the two other leather factories based in Worms, "Cornelius Heyl AG" and "Heylschen Lederwerke Liebenau" .
From 1850 the company began to export its products to North and South America as well as to Australia. The export share was up to 80% of the manufactured goods. The agency in New York City took over Carl Hauselt , who had been an apprentice in Worms in the 1840s and emigrated in 1850.
Nikolaus Andreas Reinhart (1841–1910) had been a co-owner of the company since 1871 .
Social responsibility
In 1889, the company's social responsibility towards its employees was given a high priority for this time, with the so-called “workers' committee” being set up in the plant, a function that comes close to that of today's works council . In this regard, the company played a pioneering role at the time.
The company had a factory kitchen that offered meals for the staff.
Cultural responsibility
In 1917 the company founded the “Doerr und Reinhart day care center” , which still exists today under the name “St. Marien Child and Youth Welfare Center”. and enabled the overland service of the Worms City Library in the 1920s.
The company donated all the finds from Roman times found during the construction of the site to the Worms Museum. A memorial was also created depicting a hard-working leather worker to illustrate the difficulty of this job. The memorial was almost completely lost in World War II , only the head of the depicted worker, perforated by bullets, was found and exhibited in the Worms Museum. A reproduction of this monument made in the post-war years stands today in the street Lutherring . On the memorial of the leather worker there is the following inscription:
“The leather worker. In the 19th and 20th In the 19th century, the leather industry formed the economic basis of the city. Carl Stock modeled the leather worker Karl Stein in 1924. The replica of the original, lost in 1945, was created by Edwin Huller in 1993. Cast at Kunstguss Eschenburg. "
In 1933 Fritz Reinhart van Gülpen, grandson of the company founder, donated the family property known as the "Bergkloster" to the city of Worms for the purpose of housing the city's scientific library.
After the Second World War
The company's heraldic animal was the statue of a dragon holding a plaque with the initials "DuR" in its claws. The statue was also created in 1925 by the Darmstadt artist Carl Stock and was located in the administration building of the Doerr and Reinhart company. It was lost when the company was closed. After a public appeal in the Wormser Zeitung , which was initiated by the association “Wormser Lederindustrie eV”, the figure was found again in 2008. It has been restored and is now in the Hanns-Thierolf-Anlage opposite the Neusatzschule at the location where the leatherworker's memorial was originally located.
During the Second World War, the Doerr & Reinhart company premises were largely destroyed. Despite the help of the Marshall Plan , the company could not cope with this destruction and operations were ceased. In 1960 part of the plant was sold to the Salamander shoe factory .
The company had its own fire brigade , which regularly carried out exercises on the factory premises. The company also operated its own power supply in a turbine hall on its premises. After the Second World War, the remaining generators were partially used to supply the population of Worms with electricity.
The crypt chapel of the Doerr and Reinhart families is located in Albert-Schulte-Park .
Todays use
Due to its location close to the city center, the former factory premises have been gradually converted for large-scale retail since the 1980s . The NibelungenCenter shopping center was built on the northern part of the site around 1980 ; after its closure in 2015, a residential area is currently being planned on the site. The southern part was used as a Bundeswehr depot until the 1990s and in the course of the conversion , the city developed a retail park there from 2007 . The State Office for Mobility moved into the former administration building.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Reinhart, Nikolaus Andreas I. Hessian biography. (As of August 27, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ Doerr, Johann Baptist. Hessian biography. (As of August 27, 2013). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Informational directory of the cultural monuments of the independent city of Worms, p. 12. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: worms.de. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014 ; retrieved on October 25, 2014 : “former Administration building of the leather factory Doerr & Reinhart, thirteen-axis, three-and-a-half-story hipped roof building with attic, later Art Nouveau or Heimatstil, 1923/24, Arch. Philipp Holzmann, Frankfurt “ 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.
- ↑ Memory of the leather industry in Worms - Wormser Zeitung. (No longer available online.) In: wormser-zeitung.de. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014 ; Retrieved October 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Video_Doerr-Reinhart. (No longer available online.) In: wormser-lederindustrie.de. Archived from the original on October 24, 2014 ; Retrieved October 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St. Marien Children's and Youth Welfare Center. Modern profile and long history. In: caritas-worms.de. Caritasverband Worms eV, accessed on July 21, 2017 .
- ^ History of the Worms City Library> City of Worms. Retrieved June 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Inscription on the leatherworker's monument
- ↑ Georg Illert: Worms - as it was . Droste, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-0432-9 , p. 88 .
- ↑ Dennis Dirigo: On the trail of a Worms project of the century. In: WHERE! Magazine. February 7, 2017, accessed March 13, 2018 .
- ^ Specialist market center - Worms shopping park WEP. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 37 " N , 8 ° 21 ′ 41.2" E