Slaughterhouse (Coburg)

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The city ​​of Coburg's slaughterhouse was built around 1880 and closed in 2013. There are two listed buildings on the site with the former administration building and the meat hall .

history

Slaughterhouse in Schlachthofstrasse (2012)
Slaughterhouse on the Itz (2013)

The Coburg slaughterhouse was built around 1880 about one kilometer south of the city center between the railway tracks of the Werra Railway and the Itz on a stone bridge over the Itz. The Schlachthofstrasse, which runs past, was built in 1903 together with the freight station to the south .

The slaughterhouse has been rebuilt and expanded several times. In 1928 there was an expansion along the Itz with the construction of a cooling system. This consisted of a machine house, an adjoining ice-making plant, an ice store and a 247 square meter cold store. In addition, a connecting hall and a transport track were installed.

In 1941 the slaughterhouse was expanded to the south, a slaughterhouse next to the administration building was demolished in 1955 and the cold room was expanded in 1988. In 1938 the slaughterhouse was given its own siding to the freight yard. Up to 20,000 cattle and 45,000 pigs were slaughtered each year.

After it became known in 2013 that a cutting company had sold meat that was not labeled for consumption and thus put it into the food cycle, the Coburg city council decided on July 18, 2013 to cease business operations at the city slaughterhouse.

As a result, in 2016/2017 the city had a large part of the slaughterhouse buildings on the 9500 square meter property demolished. In the north the administration building (building [1) and on the Itz a two-storey cold store (building 9) remained, in the south an old meat hall (building 4) and another administration building (building 6). In 2018, the Coburg University of Applied Sciences moved into the former administration building with the Creapolis project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , as well as the Zukunft.Coburg.Digital initiative, a digital start-up center. The use of the cold store is to follow.

architecture

Administration building (2014)

The two-storey, listed administration building at the northern entrance to the slaughterhouse was built in 1880 according to plans by the city councilor Julius Martinet. The building, which is based on classicism and designed in the form of historicism , has a brick facade with sandstone structures and three axes on each side. The hipped roof building has a pyramid roof with a clock tower in the middle and bat dormers above an eaves with a profiled cornice . The facade is characterized by medium risalites and corner grooves, the windows of which have segmental arches with wedge-shaped stones on the ground floor. The windows with drilled frames on the upper floor, which is arranged over a surrounding cornice, are somewhat lower. In 1937, the pork tripe on the ground floor was converted.

To the south of the administration building there is an old, listed meat hall with a half-hipped roof. The plastered facade with seven segment-arched double windows and diamond-coated wedge stones, bricked up since 1984, consists of brickwork with sandstone structures. In 1941 the slaughterhouse was expanded to the south by an axis section without sandstone structures.

Web links

Commons : Slaughterhouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Köster: The urban construction of the modern times . In: Monographs of German Cities: Representation of German cities and their work in the economy, finance, hygiene, social policy and technology . Volume 30, Erwin Stein (ed.), Coburg. Berlin 1929, pp. 40-42.
  2. ↑ Simone Bastian: Coburg slaughterhouse on dust and dirt. In: infranken.de , March 17, 2017.
  3. ^ Regina Imhäuser: Meat scandal: Coburg slaughterhouse is closed. In: topagrar.com , July 26, 2013.
  4. ^ Simone Bastian: Coburg slaughterhouse remains urban. In: infranken.de , June 28, 2018.
  5. ^ A b c Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg (= Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume IV.48 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X , p. 320 .
  6. ↑ Simone Bastian: Coburg slaughterhouse as future laboratory ?. In: infranken.de , October 20, 2017.

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 14 "  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 34"  E