Lodenfrey Park

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The Loden Frey Park is the former production site of the company Loden Frey , in a business park was transformed. It is located in Munich's district Schwabing on the edge of the English Garden .

history

The cloth maker Johann Georg Frey set up a factory in Adalbertstrasse in Munich in 1842 , in which woolen fabrics were produced on ten looms . Eight years later the company moved to Tivolistraße. Silk fabrics, satin and velvet were now also produced; later Frey specialized in loden .

In 1870 the construction of a factory began on Osterwaldstrasse in Schwabing. Frey's fulling mill was driven by the Schwabing brook . This brook is still used today to generate electricity; the old turbine house has been preserved.

From 1927, not only fabrics, but also finished clothes were produced on the site. Lodenfrey made uniforms during the Nazi dictatorship. They praised themselves as a "closet for the brown soldier, for Hitler boys and Hitler girls". Since August 1942 at the latest, prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp had to do forced labor here. A permanent external command with around 30 prisoners existed from June 1944 to April 1945.

In the 1980s, Loden-Frey relocated production to other locations, including Hungary and Romania. This made the factory site and the buildings available for new uses. In 1988 a rental company was founded that converted the former Loden-Frey production facility into an industrial park. Around 100 companies have settled in the rental area of ​​around 25,000 square meters. The site itself is around 35,000 square meters and has 14 buildings. It also offers a swimming pool , tennis courts and a canteen. It is used by around 800 employees.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Schalm, Munich (Loden-Frey), in: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , pp. 407-409.
  2. ↑ Imported customs - Wiesn outfits made in southern and eastern Europe , Abendzeitung München from September 9, 2008.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 46.8 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 55.5"  E