Wilhelm Euler paper mill

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The Wilhelm Euler paper mill ( W. Euler paper mill GmbH & Co. KG ; from 1922 W. Euler, machine paper mill A.-G. and later W. Euler, paper mill, limited partnership ) was a paper mill in Bensheim in southern Hesse . The factory was popularly known as “Der Euler”.

history

The factory was founded in 1859 (according to some sources in 1871 or 1872) as the straw paper factory Carl Hemmerde & Co south of the Bensheim cemetery and, after several changes of ownership, was taken over by Wilhelm Euler in 1873 . According to the historian Heinz Stoob , the company was founded in 1867 and taken over in 1875.

Under Wilhelm Euler's leadership, the company was one of the ten largest paper mills in Europe. In 1907 he handed over the management of the business to his son of the same name, called "Willie" (* 1876). His second son Karl (father of FW Euler and Horst Euler ) worked as a chemist and authorized signatory in the factory until his death in 1933 .

It is known that, for health reasons, Willie Euler transferred the management of the company to Ernst Theodor Arnold (born September 4, 1888 in Lorsch ; † May 31, 1978 in Darmstadt ), a grandson of Paul Arnold , who himself lived with Elisabeth "Elli" Koch ( * January 3, 1914 in Darmstadt; † after 1990), daughter of the civil engineer and university professor Alexander Koch , was married. In 1933 Willie Euler's only son Wilhelm, called "Will" (1905–1971), was the third generation to run the company. After his death, his nephew Horst Schmidt, who had already joined the company as a personally liable partner in 1967, took over the management of the company for two years.

In the high-turnover years, over 300 employees were employed to manufacture office cardboard and other paper goods.

Machine hall before the demolition. Left the listed brick wall
View from the south, 2006

In 1998 the August Koehler paper mill acquired the majority of the Dresden Papier GmbH in Greiz as well as the majority in the Euler paper mill and founded Euler Greiz GmbH & Co. KG in Greiz, Thuringia, as a subsidiary of the Euler paper mill in Bensheim. As early as 1922, the Koehler and Euler families each had a stake in the other company.

In January 2007 the company was closed with 115 employees. The factory halls on the 4500 m² site were completely demolished in 2010, with the exception of a listed brick wall. Some workers' houses and parts of the factory were also planned by Heinrich Metzendorf .

The research network industrial culture and local memory deals in detail with the history of the old paper mill.

Monument protection

The manufacturing and office building of the former paper mill in Friedhofstrasse, built by Heinrich Metzendorf around 1904, is a listed building. Likewise, a transformer house built in 1920 at Friedhofstrasse 80.

The so-called foreman houses of the factory, an ensemble of three two-storey workers' houses built by the Metzendorf brothers between 1902 and 1906, are classified by building historians as pioneering work in the field of social housing . As part of the school project "denkmal aktiv - cultural heritage goes to school" under the patronage of the German UNESCO Commission (see also German Foundation for Monument Protection # Public Relations for Monument Protection ) in 2013/2014, students from the Heinrich Metzendorf School in Bensheim discussed the historical significance of in desolate houses apart. The project received technical advice from the architect and university professor Frank Oppermann , the architect Sanjin Maracic and Rainer Metzendorf.

As early as 2007, three students from the Old Electoral High School in Bensheim dealt with the topic of the paper mill as part of an exhibition at the Hessenpark open-air museum . The volume accompanying the exhibition contained articles by Thomas Kaffenberger and the cultural anthropologist Heinz Schilling . In 2007, Schilling offered teacher training on this subject at the grammar school.

Reuse of the factory premises

The former wood yard was built on between 2008 and 2010. In 2012, the construction of 300 residential units began on the rest of the “Euler site”. The Koehler Paper Group, as the owner of the site, had also undertaken to expose the rotten Meerbach on the site and to carry out a natural extension. The former brick transformer tower was also intended to serve as a power supplier for the area and for the settlement of bats . In 2014 Koehler sold the area to Bouwfonds Immobilienentwicklung GmbH with its head office in Frankfurt am Main (since 2015 BPD; derived from Holding Bouwfonds Property Development). At this point in time, around 240 residential units, 40 single-family houses and around 200 condominiums in 14 apartment buildings should be built on the 41,000 m² site. The company acquired the former truck turning area in 2006 and implemented the “Classico” single-family home project with 27 single-family homes. In October 2014 Bouwfonds announced that construction work would start in autumn 2015.

literature

  • Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark GmbH, research network: What remains: In memory of the end of the Bensheim paper mill . Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 3-86314-263-2 , p. 96 .
  • Angela Forberg: Documentation of the monument - active - project of the Heinrich Metzendorf School in the school year 2013/2014 , Heinrich Metzendorf School, Bensheim 2014. ( online )
  • Euler paper mill. History of a region. In: Ioana Alexandra Bang: Factory as home: Biographical research among employees of a former industrial company. 2009, p. 6 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Papier-Fabrikant , 20th year, 1922, p. 1578. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Wochenblatt für Papierfabrikation , Volume 63, Verein Deutscher Papierfabrikanten, 1932, p. 867. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  3. ^ O. Elsner: Der Papier-Fabrikant , Volume 40, 1942. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ^ Exhibition on the Euler paper mill , Morgenweb , November 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ Koehler closes Bensheim paper mill. Sabine Schwendemann, accessed on October 10, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Rise and end of the Euler paper factory  ( page no longer available , 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. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.morgenweb.de   , Morgenweb, November 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Heinz Stoob: German city book: Handbook of urban history , Kohlhammer Verlag , p. 63. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  8. ↑ a b Christine Will: History of the Euler Family , Bergsträßer Anzeiger , February 13, 2015.
  9. ^ Georg Wenzel: German business leader . Life courses of German business personalities. A reference book on 13,000 business figures of our time. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg / Berlin / Leipzig 1929, DNB 948663294 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ^ Koehler closes Bensheim , Baden Online , June 28, 2006.
  11. ↑ Last remnants of the past. Echo online , accessed October 11, 2015 .
  12. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse: Euler paper factory  in the German Digital Library , accessed on November 2, 2015.
  13. ↑ Mohamed Scharabi: Architectural History of the 19th Century , Wasmuth Verlag , 1993, p. 178. ISBN 978-3-8030-0159-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  14. ↑ Friedhofstraße 67 ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / denkxweb.denkmalpflege-hessen.de 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. , Cultural monuments in Hessen.
  15. ↑ State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse: Bensheim, Friedhofstrasse 80  in the German Digital Library , accessed on November 2, 2015.
  16. ↑ In the footsteps of the Metzendorf brothers' architects - the foremen's houses of the former paper mill in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse , denkmal aktiv.
  17. ↑ Thomas von Machui: What remains - memories of the end of the Bensheim paper mill ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akg-bensheim.de 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. , Altes Kurfürstliches Gymnasium Bensheim, 2007.
  18. ↑ Euler site: The huge gap is closed  ( page no longer available , 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.echo-online.de   , Echo online, January 22, 2012.
  19. ↑ a b Euler site: Good signal for Bensheim ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bensheim.de 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. , Press release of the city of Bensheim, 2014.
  20. ↑ Bouwfonds has been BPD since January 1, 2015 , Bouwfonds, 2015.
  21. ↑ Dirk Rosenberger: Euler marketing starts in spring , Morgenweb , October 31, 2014.