Palla (Glauchau)

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Administration building of the weaving mill Boeßneck & Meyer, built in 1927
Administration building of the weaving mill Ernst Seifert GmbH, built in 1928
Portal of the administration building with globe

Palla refers to an ensemble of former industrial buildings at Scherbergplatz 1, Otto-Schimmel-Straße 8 and 8a and Erich-Fraaß-Straße 24 in Glauchau . It is entered in the list of cultural monuments in Glauchau under No. 09241442 .

history

Urban development

The city of Glauchau was once one of the most important textile cities in Germany. After the railway connection in 1858 and the construction of the new station on Scherberg , the areas between the station and the city center were redeveloped. In 1923, the Scherbergbrücke was built to provide a direct connection between the city center and the train station, over which Otto-Schimmel-Straße now runs. After that, the Ernst Seifert and Boeßneck & Meyer weaving mills and new residential buildings were built on that street . In 1928 the city fire brigade also moved to Schlachthofstrasse. By 1940, further factories as well as the tax office and the Überlandwerke AG Glauchau were built on the remaining areas.

Boeßneck & Meyer

The Boeßneck & Meyer company was a merger of two entrepreneurs who had already founded a joint office under the same name in Karlstrasse in 1886 . The production of the woven goods was initially carried out on a wage basis . In order to increase quality and centralize production, a weaving mill was built on the Scherberg in 1924, directly opposite the famous Hotel Glauchauer Hof . The corner building with the administration and office rooms , built in 1927 by the architect Adolf Krebs , formed the end . The company's managing director was Rudolf Franz, who led the weaving mill into one of the most important weaving companies in the textile region of West Saxony. However, in the 2nd World War there were no army orders and so the plant was threatened with compulsory closure. In 1944 there were negotiations between the Boeßneck & Meyer company and the Junkers-Werke Dessau to set up a parts assembly for bomber aircraft from the Leipzig aircraft yard . This strong expansion of power as well as an integration into military structures led to the expropriation of the company in 1948.

Ernst Seifert

The company founder Ernst Seifert came from a poor weaver family from Mülsen near Zwickau . In 1920 he moved into a small apartment on Leipziger Platz in Glauchau and built his first own weaving mill there as “Ernst Seifert GmbH”, after having previously given up his position as director of the “Tasch's Nachf.” Weaving mill. The company grew rapidly. In 1922 a new plant was built on Scherberg. In addition to a new weaving hall with a flat head building, his own manufacturer's villa was also built here . He crowned the weaving mill between 1926 and 1928 with the final administration building to close the gap to what was then Scherbergstrasse (today's Otto-Schimmel-Strasse). The architect of the neoclassical building was Reinhold Ulrich, Dresden. Core products were predominantly women's clothing fabrics made of wool and silk , woven on around 500 looms .

The development during the GDR era

In 1946 the Ernst Seifert company was sequestered , and Seifert fled to West Germany with his family in 1948. The textile factories were finally expropriated in 1949 as a result of the Glauchau-Meerane textile pusher processes . In 1951, both weaving mills were incorporated under the name “VEB Palla-Textilwerke Glauchau” as the administration and main works of the Association of State Owned Enterprises Wool and Silk Weaving Mills II Glauchau. These later became a parent company in the "Wool and Silk" combine with headquarters in Meerane .

Discussion about termination

The buildings have been empty since 2000. In 2008 the rear production halls were demolished. In 2012 the Glauchau city council decided to tear down the building complex along Otto-Schimmel-Straße. This met with diverse protests. Among other things, a petition was sent to the city council of Glauchau, which was signed by over 1,300 people. The aim of the campaign was to repeal the city council resolution from 2012 that called for the demolition of the listed buildings on Scherbergplatz and along Otto-Schimmel-Straße. The city should take a new resolution that focuses and formulates the preservation of the Palla and find a suitable investor for the complex. The initiators were the Glauchau Monument Association together with the Industrial Culture East Initiative , which argued that the building here was built in neoclassicism and neo-baroque and is one of the largest and most architecturally valuable industrial structures in Saxony. The building is thus defining the cityscape of the old industrial city and forms the core of the identity of an entire region. On February 9, 2020, the architect Elmar Nolte submitted a petition for the preservation of the monument ensemble to the petition committee of the Free State of Saxony , which is responsible for monument protection , on which the Saxon state parliament will decide.

literature

  • Ralf-Peter Ehrentraut: Beginnings of a New State (1949-1961) , in: Stadtverwaltung Glauchau: Glauchau, contributions to city history ,, Glauchau 1990, p. 151–164
  • Stefan Stolp: How Glauchau deals with fallow land , Freie Presse, Glauchau, January 9, 2020
  • Stefan Stolp: Interested parties flash off at the city , Free Press, Glauchau, February 1, 2020
  • Stefan Stolp: Those interested in Palla want clarity about monument protection , in: Freie Presse, Glauchau, April 20, 2020
  • Hans Rainer Wolf: Glauchau in the post-war period (1945-1949) in: Stadtverwaltung Glauchau: Glauchau, contributions to city history ,, Glauchau 1990, pp. 139–150

Sources and web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from the Saxon State Parliament of April 3, 2020 to Elmar Nolte

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 28.7 ″  N , 12 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  E