Milk farm Nuremberg
The Milchhof , built in Nuremberg in 1930 , was a significant architectural and historical testimony to industrial construction . All buildings were planned by the architect Otto Ernst Schweizer .
Architecture of the dairy farm
The spacious system consisted of the 108 m long three-storey factory hall with the characteristic folding concrete shell roof, the machine hall, the administration building and the 76 m high chimney made of reinforced concrete (chimney tower), with the cooling water system running around a third of the height.
All components were constructed as concrete skeleton structures, the company buildings were clad with large-format yellow tiles , the administration building with natural stone . At the time of construction, the facility was considered exemplary and groundbreaking for modern factory construction. The folding concrete shell roof made of 18 trapezoidal transverse shells was the first large-scale construction of this type used in practice and was technically new territory at the time.
Shutdown and demolition
The milk supply (later Bayerische Milchversorgung GmbH , trade name paladin ) used the system until the 1990s, when production was relocated to Zapfendorf near Bamberg. In 1995 the company was finally shut down and cleared. Failed construction maintenance led to rapid deterioration. Plans for the continued use of the building could not be implemented. Although the Milchhof was a listed building , the area fell into disrepair in the following years and was used by the fire brigade and police as a practice area. Despite considerable public protests, the site, which is still a listed building, was completely demolished in 2008, except for the administration building. The approximately 45,000 m² area between Kressengartenstrasse and the railway line is newly built.
Administration building
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Only the administration building was preserved and was restored in an exemplary manner in 2003. The symmetrical four-storey building encloses a large, three-storey interior hall. The strictly geometric outline, the strongly emphasized horizontal lines (protruding cornices at the level of the ceilings) and the pillar templates clad with natural stone give the building an almost 'classicist' appearance despite all its modernity. According to Sembach / Koch / Tschoeke, the facade structure takes up elements from Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Berlin Building Academy . Today it houses, among other things, exhibition rooms of the Nuremberg Art Association .
Today's development and use
The construction of new commercial buildings on the site was largely completed by around 2017. The Mercedes-Benz branch occupies the largest share of the space, the VR-Bank has built a new building in which it offers conference rooms.
The site of the first Nuremberg power station was also included in the investment and is currently (2018) the last area to be built on. The only remnant of the E-Werk is part of the Dynamo Hall that has been preserved and is used by a kindergarten and a restaurant.
literature
- Immo Boyken, Kurt Grimm: Otto Ernst Schweizer. Milk farm Nuremberg. Edition Axel Menges , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-932565-59-2 .
- Klaus-Jürgen Sembach, Christian Koch, Tschoeke: Architecture in Nuremberg 1904–1994. 2nd edition, Tümmels, Nuremberg 1994, ISBN 3-921590-21-3 .
- Justus Bier: Otto Ernst Schweizer. (= Neue Werkkunst.) FE Hübsch, Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna 1929.
Web links
- Joachim C. Thiel: The dairy farm. Sad end to a memorial. on www.thiel-architekten.de
- Article about Augustinerhof and Milchhof (PDF file; 345 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Milchhof on www.nuernberginfos.de , accessed on August 23, 2010
- ↑ Milchhof rebuilt by 2012, Nürnberger Zeitung , October 8, 2010
- ↑ VR-Bank website : www.vrbanknuernberg.de/teilhaberbank/tullnaupark ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. and www.tullnau.de
- ↑ the company Dibag website called on February 4, 2018
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '59 " N , 11 ° 5' 53.3" E