Siegwerk (Siegburg)
The Siegwerk has been an industrial site in Siegburg that has been in operation since 1830 and is now the headquarters of the international printing ink manufacturer Siegwerk Druckfarben .
location
The Siegwerk is located directly east of the Siegburg city center behind the Michaelsberg , between Alfred-Keller-Straße , Pilgrimsweg , Dammstraße and Wilhelm-Ostwald-Straße . The Siegburger Mühlengraben flows through the factory premises, which measures around 650 m in a west-east direction and 400 m in a north-south direction.
Current usage
Currently (January 2008) the Siegwerk or its German subsidiary Siegwerk Druckfarben AG has 950 employees at its Siegburg headquarters, 200 of them in research and development, the rest in administration and production. Siegburg is the world's largest single location for printing ink production, 130,000 tons per year represent half of the company's total production.
In addition, the Siegwerk Museum is housed in the gatehouse in the old gatehouse and presents the history of the company and the local industry.
Traffic connection
In the east of the site there was an in-house freight station until the closure in 2016, which was connected to the international network via a remaining single-track section of the Siegburg – Olpe (Aggertalbahn) railway line from the Rhein-Sieg Railway to the Siegburg / Bonn station . In addition to the railroad, an average of 150 trucks transported goods to and from the factory every day.
history
In 1840 the Kattun printing and dyeing works Rolffs & Cie, 10 years after it was founded in Cologne, relocated to Siegburg, where it was the first large industrial company. The railway connection was established in 1890. In 1911, father and son Alfred Keller and Fritz Rung began producing inks for copper rotogravure printing under the Siegwerk Chemisches Laboratorium company . The calico factory closed on October 1, 1914, and the employees were transferred to the armaments industry. In 1937, Cantulia KG , a manufacturer of accordions , settled on the area . The Farben-Siegwerk later followed as a user. On November 27, 1982, the museum was opened in the gatehouse.
On the grounds of Siegwerk the building of today's gatehouse Museum, the historic driveway with Torwärterhäuschen and two residential buildings (villas) stand as monuments under preservation (→ list of monuments in Siegburg ).
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- Peter Heimerzheim (Ed.): 100 years of Siegwerk innovations. Geschichtsbüro-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-940371-02-7 .
- Siegwerk has been involved in Siegburg for 166 years. In: General-Anzeiger. Bonn. 116th Volume, No. 35–492, October 21, 2006, p. 25.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 42 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ E