NINO building construction
The spinning mill , also NINO building , is the largest single building in the city of Nordhorn .
description
The spinning mill building was designed by the Stuttgart industrial architect Philipp Jakob Manz during the textile heyday of Nordhorn and built in 1928/29 for the company Niehues & Dütting , which later became known as NINO . Together with the spinning mill building of the competitor Ludwig Povel & Co. , which was also erected by Manz shortly before , these monumental industrial buildings in the middle of the city shaped the Nordhorn cityscape for decades.
According to the Stuttgart architecture historian Kerstin Renz, both high-rise buildings were "jewels of industrial architecture" and "the last representative of their building type and an absolute exception in a European comparison", with their cubic structures and flat roofs, large ribbon windows and slender templates remember ambitious high-rise projects of the 1920s.
After the decline of the textile industry , after long years of vacancy, the NINO building could initially be retained through a renovation and use concept of the former factory site and later put to a new use under the leadership of the project initiators Jan Lucas Veddeler and Heinrich Lindschulte as a "Competence Center for Economics" the Povel building was demolished in spring 2010 despite extensive protests. From 2008 to 2010 the NINO building was revitalized while largely preserving its external appearance and converted into an office building with numerous rental units of various sizes as well as a city museum and conference center according to the plans of the Münster architects Kresing & Lindschulte.
The building is a listed building and forms the center of the NINO business park . His current address is Nino-Allee 11.
Building history
After the Povel spinning mill had its monumental high-rise spinning mill built in 1927/28, the following year, the younger competitor Niehues & Dütting also commissioned the renowned architect Manz to build a larger structure than that of the competitor. Manz had already carried out a number of construction projects for Niehues & Dütting since 1907, including a boiler and machine house for the factory power plant, several workers' houses or the first administration building with a bale store and the raw fabric store opposite .
The spinning mill building by Niehues & Dütting was conceived as the new center of a simultaneously renewed and greatly expanded factory complex around Nordhorn Prollstrasse.
drafts
In a first draft of 1924 Manz had for spinning a simple, neoclassical appearance and facade under Mansard - hipped roofs , similar to Rohgewebelager and the administrative building provided which was not realized. In 1926 he presented a second, completely different design: a huge flat-roof building with generous windows, in a functional concrete skeleton construction in the style of the “ New Building ”, almost 110 meters long and more than 55 meters wide.
After the local textile competitor Povel, also from Manz, had commissioned a monumental building for his spinning mill, in February 1928, at the request of Niehues & Dütting, Manz presented a similar proposal with his third building design, which was finally implemented. He envisaged a 30-meter-high, almost 50 by 42-meter structure with a tower-like staircase more than 40 meters high on its northeast corner. Otherwise, the building was designed so that it could be expanded in sections to the south if necessary.
Competing building
Philipp Jakob Manz built these new spinning mills, inspired by the US high-rise construction of the Roaring Twenties , almost in series. He had already followed the same construction principle for the new spinning mill for Ludwig Povel & Co., which was only a few hundred meters away and was built the year before. So for Niehues & Dütting and its competitor Povel, two very similar buildings were built almost simultaneously and based on the same concept.
However, Bernhard Niehues made sure that his building trumped that of its competitor Povel: Although the Povel building also has a basement and five full floors, its footprint of 50 by 36 meters is smaller. It was therefore only able to accommodate 40,000 spindles with a usable area of around 12,000 m². At Bernhard Niehues' express request, the staircase and water tower were also higher than in the Povel twin, and instead of a simple clinker facade, Niehues had his spinning mill building designed with an almost white plastered facade and sophisticated details.
After all, the rival building lacks the diagonally arranged templates at the corners of the towers. The window pillars are less prominent than on the Niehues & Dütting building and are flush with the cornice. The facade of the spinning mill building by Povel with its simple design can therefore be classified as functionalist industrial architecture, while the facade of the spinning mill building by Niehues & Dütting with its protruding supports in the area of the spinning rooms and the templates on the tower corners has expressionist elements.
He erected other buildings in 1925 in Rheine for Hermann Kümpers & Söhne and in 1928 in Greven, Westphalia, for the textile company J. Schründer Söhne , which have a structure similar to that of the Nordhorn buildings, but only have three or four floors and a significantly smaller usable area.
building
Two months after the third draft was presented, the foundation stone for the new building was laid. A full basement, five-story plastered building was built in just under a year. The individual floors covered an area of 2,000 square meters each. The oversized openings in the narrow concrete grid with their expansive glass fronts were intended to create workspaces that were as bright as possible and flooded with light.
The basement was used as a dust basement and yarn store, on the ground, among others, a cotton warehouse and were Batteur ; the upper floors contained the spinning mills. The corner tower in the northwest served as a dust tower; The other two corner towers contained sanitary facilities and the stairwells. Of these two corner towers, the northeast tower overlooks the main structure, as a water tank is housed in its spire.
The new building with its five soccer field-sized machine rooms and a total usable area of around 13,000 m² was designed for spinning machines with a total of 50,000 spindles . In the spring of 1929, production began, thus initiating the establishment of the company, which was completed by 1929, as a three-tier textile company consisting of spinning, weaving and finishing. In 1929 the company employed 3,200 people on 3,000 looms and 185,000 spindles, including numerous cross-border commuters from the Netherlands. The company experienced another heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, when it sold a water-repellent and breathable jacket fabric across Europe. During this time, the construction of a new weaving mill and a second administration building fell.
The reference of this building construction company Niehues & Dütting own words, the largest was cotton - ferrous mill in Germany.
Decline
Declines in sales due to the noticeable effects of globalization since the 1980s and a failed restructuring concept led to the bankruptcy of NINO AG in 1994 . In the high phase of the textile industry, up to 6,000 people were employed in the plant, but in 1996 production had to be completely stopped and the plant closed.
Remodeling and renovation
It was not until 2005, nine years after the plant was closed, that the initiators Jan Lucas Veddeler and Heinrich Lindschulte found a group of investors, predominantly based in the city of Nordhorn and in the county of Bentheim, which, together with the city of Nordhorn, launched an ideas competition in which the design would win of the Münster architects Rainer Kresing prevailed. On the basis of these plans, the building was gutted and redesigned into a “Competence Center for Business” as the focal point of the NINO business park with a financial investment of around 29 million euros .
The external structure of the spinning mill building remained largely unchanged. Inside, however, the area has been reduced by around a third and attractively illuminated by means of a roofed glass courtyard gallery extending over all five floors.
The building construction offers a total of more than 10,000 m² of usable space, which is divided into around 7,500 m² for offices and a congress hall, 600 m² seminar / meeting rooms and 1,400 m² for a museum gallery and a catering area, which is in charge of the Nordhorn City Museum . The NINO building is still the largest single building in Nordhorn. The competence center was opened in 2010.
literature
- Christoph Uricher: Successful structural change: former raw fabric warehouse converted by Nordhorn textile company. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony , 24, 2004, no. 2, pp. 33–36. ISSN 0720-9835 .
- Udo Schwabe: Textile industry in the county of Bentheim, 1800-1914 . Publishing house of the Emsland landscape for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim, 2008. ISBN 978-3-925034-43-5 .
- German National Library Kerstin Renz: The architect Philipp Jakob Manz (1861-1936 ) in: Built industrial culture.
Web links
- Textile factory Nino (Niehues & Dütting) (spinning mill) in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Special supplement of the Grafschafter Nachrichten of October 30, 2010: NINO-Hochbau (PDF; 8.7 MB)
- City of Nordhorn, Building Regulations Office: Building history of the NINO building construction (2003) (PDF; 194 kB)
- NINO-Seg: History of the company NINO - overview
- NINO-Seg: History of NINO-AG
Individual evidence
- ^ Stadtmuseum Nordhorn: Textile History
- ↑ VVV-Nordhorn: NINO-Hochbau ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2012 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.
- ↑ a b c d City of Nordhorn, Building Regulations Office: Building History of the NINO Building (2003) ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2012 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. (PDF; 194 kB)
- ↑ Industrial building monument of supraregional importance ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Grafschafter Nachrichten of September 18, 2010 (PDF; 694 kB)
- ^ List society: The textile industry of the Federal Republic of Germany in structural change. JCB Mohr., 1969. p. 73
- ↑ Stadtmuseum Nordhorn: NINO-Hochbau ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NINO brochure: Floor plans / room offer ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 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. (PDF; 5.4 MB)
