Provincial trade exhibition for Rhineland and Westphalia

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The Provincial Trade Exhibition for Rhineland and Westphalia was an industrial and commercial exhibition that took place in Düsseldorf in 1852 .

history

Commercial exhibition for Rhineland and Westphalia in Düsseldorf , chromolithography by Caspar Scheuren , 1852

As a result of the upheavals of 1848/1849 , the West German economy was on an upswing in the middle of the 19th century . Although 192 German companies had taken part in the London industrial exhibition in 1851 , the impression prevailed that the increased importance of German products had not been sufficiently emphasized there. Attempts were made to compensate for this deficiency through domestic exhibitions, including the provincial trade exhibition for Rhineland and Westphalia , which was organized by a 36-member committee on the initiative of the royal Prussian government councilor Otto von Mülmann and the Düsseldorf mayor Ludwig Hammers July to October 1, 1852 in Düsseldorf.

For this purpose, the provincial parliament of the Rhine Province made the 24 halls of its estate house, which was built from 1845 to 1850 according to plans by Rudolf Wiegmann and Friedrich August Stüler in the complex of the Düsseldorf Palace , available for exhibition purposes. In addition, the north wing of the palace was included in the planned exhibition. The rush of exhibitors was so great that a three-aisled glass hall was built as a temporary exhibition architecture in the courtyard between the buildings, which, under the circumstances at the time, was admired as an extraordinary technical achievement and praised as a reminder of London's Crystal Palace .

On an area of ​​2,700 square meters, 756 companies, including 125 from Düsseldorf, showed the more than 60,000 visitors exhibition goods of all kinds, from metal goods, furniture, clothing, wood, stones, machines and paper to food, jewelry and pharmaceutical products. Cast steel products, hoists, steam pumps, steam hammers and a "new sheet metal braiding machine" heralded the industrial revolution that was taking place on the Rhine, Ruhr and Wupper . A “ telegraph apparatus ” and the demonstration of the daguerreotype aroused particular interest ; a fountain with cologne was curious .

Thanks to the exhibition, the city of Düsseldorf was able to establish itself as the leading trade fair location in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area and thus lay the foundation for its development into the “ desk of the Ruhr area ”.

literature

  • Catalog of the provincial trade exhibition for Rhineland and Westphalia in Düsseldorf . Hermann Voss' printing works, Düsseldorf 1852 ( digitized version ).
  • Otto Teich-Balgheim: The Düsseldorf Exhibition of 1852 . In: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter . Düsseldorf, Volume VI (1937), Issue 4, pp. 106-112.
  • Herbert Engst: Düsseldorf. The exhibition city . Düsseldorf 1949, p. 25 ff.
  • Thomas Großbölting : "In the realm of work". The representation of social order in the German industrial and trade exhibitions 1790–1914 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58128-7 , p. 151 ff.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 . Düsseldorf 2001, p. 26