Bagel paper mill

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Some buildings of the former paper mill in 2015

The Bagel paper factory (also Bagelsche paper mill ) is a former paper factory on the Anger in Ratingen . The factory buildings have been entered in the list of architectural monuments in Ratingen since February 1, 1988 (No. A 175).

History as a paper mill

The Elberfeld paper merchant Johann Bargmann first built a paper mill in 1789 on the present site . The Anger supplied both the hydropower needed and the soft water for papermaking.

Peter August Bagel (1809–1881), who ran the business of the Bagel publishing and printing family from 1843 , acquired the paper mill in 1852, modernized it with paper making machines and a steam engine, and began operations in 1855.

By 1860, 45 workers were turning 1,800 pounds of rags into 1,200 pounds of printing and writing paper a day.

In 1904 a major renovation and expansion took place, from which the majority of the current building stock originates.

In 1938, 100 people found work here. During this time there was a connection to the Angertal Railway .

Paper production ended in 1980.

Further use

The buildings were then partly used for a printing company, which burned down completely on January 2, 2013 and has not been replaced since then.

From 2002, the intake structure was rebuilt in order to better regulate a backwater in the event of flooding.

Today there are various uses for the building ensemble, including rooms for the Ratingen art and music club, for a daycare center and for artist studios.

literature

  • A. Bagel-Papierfabrik (Ed.): Who we are. Ratingen, 1952
  • Christina Lubinski: "What I have, I am": psychological property and shareholder culture in the Düsseldorf family company Bagel; 1960 to 2005. In: Family businesses in the Rhineland in the 19th and 20th centuries: Networks - Succession - Social Capital; [the 1st part of the conference took place on June 12th and 13th, 2008 in Düsseldorf; the 2nd part of the conference followed on October 1st and 2nd, 2009 in Hagen], Cologne: Foundation Rheinisch-Westfälisches Wirtschaftsarchiv, 2009, ISBN 978-3-933025-45-6 , pages 238-251 [2]
  • Historical Commission : The Empire 1871-1918. Volume 1, part 2, Walter de Gruyter, 2003, pages 115–116 [3]

Web links

Commons : Bagel Paper Mill  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Top 10 Rhineland: Bagelsche paper mill, Ratingen. In: RP ONLINE. Retrieved July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Paper mill becomes part of the Ratingen industrial trail. In: Website of the Bagel group of companies. April 7, 2017, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  3. ↑ New German Biography ( online )
  4. ^ Rudolf Schmidt: German booksellers. German book printer. Volume 1. Berlin / Eberswalde 1902, pp. 24-25. [1]
  5. ↑ Albert Gieseler: A. Bagel, paper factory. ( online )
  6. ↑ Angertal Railway
  7. ↑ Rheinische Post ( online ( memento of the original from April 17, 2014 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 note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  8. ↑ Redevelopment measures at the Angerbach ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.hydrotec.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 '24.7 "  N , 6 ° 52' 26.8"  E