Nibelungenmühle

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The Nibelungenmühle

The Nibelungenmühle (formerly Baruch and Schönfeld ) is a mill in Worms that was rebuilt in the 1920s . It is a listed, around 35 meter high historical building complex, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the Rhine bridge and can be seen from afar, especially from the Rhine .

description

The Nibelungenmühle is a two-part building complex, the main part of which was partly built of concrete, has Art Nouveau motifs and its representative front faces the Rhine. Next to the elongated main building is a plastered storage silo with a basket-arched roof. The historical buildings of the complex are cultural monuments due to the Rhineland-Palatinate Monument Protection Act .

history

The previous building of the Nibelungenmühle, the Gatzert'sche Mühle , was located in the city center of Worms, on the west side of the train station (Liebenauerfeld). The mill building was moved to its current location in 1893 and has been called Nibelungenmühle ever since . The original owner, Sigmund Baruch, was the fourth son of the mill owner and councilor Moritz Baruch and his wife Emilie, née Gatzert. Emilie's younger sister, Barbara Gatzert, married Hermann Schönfeld. As a result, both sons-in-law took over the operation of the mill under the name Baruch and Schönfeld - Dampf und Kunstmüllerei . After Sigmund's father Moritz and his son-in-law Herrmann retired, their successors Albert, Rudolf and Otto Baruch ran the mill. Rudolf died in 1932; the two remaining brothers continued to run the business alone.

Due to a fire in 1912, the entire plant had to be rebuilt in the 1920s.

The mill had to be sold around 1936 because of the Jewish family background, after the National Socialists massively threatened people who classified it as "Jewish" due to the Nuremberg Laws . The new, non-Jewish owner continued to operate the mill under its well-known name "Nibelungenmühle". Albert moved to Frankfurt am Main with his wife Adele . From there they emigrated to the USA . After Albert's death, his widow returned to Worms on January 15, 1954 and from then on lived at Donnersbergstrasse 28.

After the mill business briefly returned to the Baruch family in 1950, it still exists today under the new operating company, Deuka .

Current development

The operating company Deuka published in the Wormser Zeitung on March 18, 2017 that mill operations will be shut down on November 15 of the same year. The reasons given were the damage to buildings caused by the flood problem and problems with being able to implement the requirements for the separation of genetically modified raw materials at the Worms site. After the closure in Worms, other Deuka locations, for example in Mannheim , Heilbronn and Plochingen , are to take over the production volumes previously processed in Worms.

Web links

Commons : Nibelungenmühle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 8 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
  2. ↑ Jörg Koch: Worms 100 years ago . Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-020-3 , p. 32 .
  3. ↑ Gerold Bönnen : History of the City of Worms . 2nd Edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2015, p. 498 .
  4. ↑ a b Worms city archive: Baruch I. In: wormserjuden.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
  5. ^ Fire of the Nibelungenmühle in Worms - German Digital Library. In: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Deuka plant in Worms closes at the end of the year: Employees are offered continued employment. In: wormser-zeitung.de. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 40.3 "  N , 8 ° 22 ′ 16.5"  E