Rheinische wallpaper factory

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The Rheinische Tapetenfabrik was an industrial company in the Bonn district of Beuel-Ost . The company, founded in 1893, was briefly the largest wallpaper manufacturer in Germany after a merger at the turn of the century . In 1980, after a steady decline in orders, the company went bankrupt, and since 1984 the factory site in Auguststrasse has been used as a culture and business park. Parts of the complex, especially the facades, are protected as a registered monument .

history

The founder of the wallpaper factory was August Schleu, who ran a wallpaper shop on Münsterplatz in downtown Bonn. Since he sold his wallpapers at very low prices, his suppliers refused to sell their products to him in order to protect other retailers. In order to be able to produce wallpapers for sale himself, Schleu took over the production facilities of the Stereos carpet factory R. Bovermann in Beuel in 1893 .

Two years after taking over the Stereos factory, Emil Tilger joined the company as a partner in 1895. The name was changed to Rheinische Tapetenfabrik Tilger & Co. , which was followed by expansion. New buildings for steam boiler systems, steam engines and the power supply were built. In the factory rooms, glue printing rooms ( collography ) for printing machines, rolling rooms for wallpaper manufacture, warehouses and a locksmith's shop were built. In 1901 the administration also moved to a larger building. The production and storage halls, a studio and a porter's house built between 1901 and 1905 were designed by the Bonn architect Carl Edler . In 1904 a paper factory was taken over in Hope Valley .

Changing times

Two years later, it merged with the Mannheim wallpaper factory Engelhard , founded in 1843 and managed by Emil Engelhard ; the company now traded as Rheinische Tapeten- und Papierfabriken Engelhard & Schleu KG and was at that time the largest manufacturer in all of Germany. 350 workers and employees produced around 120,000 rolls of wallpaper a day. Because a lot was exported, warehouses were set up in Berlin and Paris. But as early as 1908, sales problems led the company to join the Kartell Tapeten-Industrie-Aktiengesellschaft (TIAG), which consisted of twelve companies. A regulation of the market and an end to the ruinous price war between the manufacturers failed and so TIAG was dissolved again in 1910; In 1911 the Rheinische Tapetenfabrik became independent again. Only after the First World War did the order situation improve again under Managing Director Adolph Hoffmann. In 1919 the company was named a stock company of the Hoffmann and Schleu families. "Er-Te" wallpapers (the abbreviation stood as an abbreviation for Rheinische Tapetenfabrik ) became a synonym for modern quality wallpapers throughout Germany.

After the National Socialists came to power , the company was given the legal form of an open trading company and was headed by Johannes Schleu and Erich Hoffmann.

War and Post War

In World War II the production was stopped. Around 40 percent of the facilities were destroyed by an air raid on October 18, 1944 . The new beginning was made difficult by the lack of coal and the coordination with the occupation authorities. Initially, the production of traditional hand-printed wallpapers was resumed, in 1947 25,000 rolls of wallpaper were produced daily. During the years of the economic miracle , production could quickly be expanded again due to increasing demand. In 1957 the building of the Rheinische Möbelfabrik on Auguststrasse opposite was bought. In the acquired ensemble, which was connected to the wallpaper factory by a covered footbridge over Auguststrasse , the bookbindery for the sample books, the paper store and the film printing department found accommodation. 1959 were employed 205 people.

The increasing replacement of wallpaper with woodchip , panels and tiles in the 1970s led to the company's decline and eventual bankruptcy in 1980.

Todays use

In 1984 the Beuel-based building contractor Werner Quadt bought the wallpaper factory. He and his successors carefully renovated the industrial monument. The facade was painted and the rooms of the disused factory were converted into the Q-Center commercial center with a usable area of ​​16,000 square meters. The first tenants included an antique wholesale market and a family education center. From 1989, the Sportfabrik fitness center has also been operated here. Various studios and art businesses moved into the factory, including the Popfarm , a private music school. Since 1998 the wallpaper factory has also had a 1:32 scale model railroad. Historical production machines are shown as art components. Parts of the roller cellar and the machine room can be viewed by arrangement.

Artist

Many artists designed wallpaper for the factory. So designed Heinz Trökes wallpaper with bird illustrations. Even Ernst Meurer (from 1911) was active here. Various designs came from Fritz August Breuhaus and Hans Finsler developed the wallpaper motif "Paquita". Gertrud Kauffmann-Schlüter created designs for wallpapers in the 1960s.

architecture

The listed facades of the factory buildings along Auguststrasse , which were built around the turn of the century, are designed in the typical Wilhelminian style with a neo-Gothic plastered facade and brick structure . The former porter's house with its half-timbered gable and stucco decorations in a picturesque style (at that time common in country houses and villas) is also a listed building. The Bauhaus- style administration building in the courtyard, built in the 1950s, is also a listed building.

The facade in front of the piano house, on the other hand, is a replica. Both chimneys have been shortened for safety reasons. One of them lost the word "Rheinische", only the lower half remained with the word "Tapetenfabrik". The wallpaper factory is part of the monument trail in the Beuel district.

See also

Web links

Commons : Rheinische Tapetenfabrik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 9, number A 3717
  2. ↑ In an edition of the Chemiker-Zeitung from 1885 the Stereos factory is referred to as a carpet factory, according to Chemiker-Zeitung , Volume 9, Part 2, Verlag der Chemiker-Zeitung, 1885, p. 1443 (Snippet). In an advertisement in the newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations , Beuel-based R. Bovermann & Cie. a roofing material "Stereos" is offered, according to Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations , Association of Central European Railway Administrations and Association of German Railway Administrations (ed.), Also snippet
  3. ↑ Factory history on the website of the wallpaper factory Bonn-Beuel (Quadt Immobilien GmbH & Co.KG)
  4. ↑ Heimatchronik des Landkreis Bonn , Volume 3: Heimatchroniken der Stadt und Kreis der Bundesgebiet , Heinrich Neu Verlag, Archive for German Home Care, 1953, p. 207 (Snippet)
  5. ↑ Information board at the former Rheinische wallpaper factory (printing rooms) , Wikimedia Commons
  6. ↑ Information board at the former Rhenish wallpaper factory (Altes Pförtnerhaus) , Wikimedia Commons
  7. ↑ a b Heinz Schmidt-Bachem, From Paper: A Culture and Economic History of the Paper Processing Industry in Germany , ISBN 978-3-11-023608-8 , Walter de Gruyter , 2011, p. 182 ff in the Google book search
  8. ↑ a b Rainer Schmidt, Monuments in Beuel: Old lady with industrial charm , December 14, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  9. ↑ a b Tapetenfabrik Beuel , Kulturserver NRW, Stiftung kulturserver.de gGmbH
  10. ↑ Tapetenfabrik invites you to visit , July 10, 2007, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
  11. ↑ Philipp Schumacher, Art! Lawn: Popfarm in Beuel invites you to a school concert , July 2, 2013, Bonner Rundschau
  12. ↑ Nicolas Ottersbach, wallpaper factory in Beuel: Modellisenbahnclub enlarges its layout , April 29, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  13. ^ Walter Borchers , Wallpaper pictures old and new , June 7, 1951, Die Zeit
  14. ↑ Michael E. Hümmer, artist profile Ernst Meurer (1883 - 1956) , Treffpunkt Kunst, (www.treffpunkt-kunst.net)
  15. ^ Tilo Richter, The business with aesthetics. The architect Fritz August Breuhaus (1883–1960) as a publicist , dissertation at the ETH Zurich , 2005–2008
  16. ^ Breuhaus wallpaper , Moritzburg Art Museum , Halle / Saale, at: Museum-digital
  17. ↑ Jutta Beder , Kauffmann (-Schlüter), Gertrud , in: Lexikon der Textildesigner 1950 - 2000 , University of Paderborn
  18. ↑ Betina Köhl, city ​​walk: First white laundry, then factory chimneys , April 4, 2013, Bonner General-Anzeiger

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