Baroque factory
The Barockfabrik is a cultural center in the city of Aachen . This is where the state-recognized vocational school for: acting • directing • musicals , the Aachen theater school , the Öcher Schängchen city puppet stage , the Art Moves dance workshop and the Couleur café are located.
Every six months, the Barockfabrik publishes a program for the months of March to August and September to February, which presents all of the hotel's activities.
history
Gotthard Startz (1792–1870) had the building built in 1821 on Löhergraben on the banks of the Paubach and set it up as a spinning mill. At the same time, after the Edmund Kelleter cloth factory in Wylre'schen Haus , the spinning mill received a 12 hp steam engine from the John Cockerill workshop in Seraing as the second company in Aachen in this branch , which was installed to drive three fulling heads and two rinsing heads as well as four spinning machine sets and clippers has been. Another high-pressure machine with 20 HP followed in 1830 and the chimney required for both is still preserved on the northern gable wall. Gotthard Startz also took over the cloth factory founded by Jakob Friedrich Kolb and abandoned by his nephew Johann Gottfried Kolb (1772–1835) in 1822 at the Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster , which his son of the same name Gotthard Startz (1842–1870) took over. His heirs, Startz, finally sold the building to the Prussian state in 1874, which set up a Catholic teachers' college there.
From the 1850s Gotthard Startz concentrated increasingly on his factory in Kornelimünster and therefore from 1851 leased part of the Aachen spinning mill to Carl Delius, the elder (1821–1897), who set up a fulling machine, a roughing mill and a shearer corner there his son Carl, junior, moved to his new Delius cloth factory on Mauerstrasse in 1907 . Another part of the spinning mill was used from 1861 by the cloth factory "Scheins, N. & Reiss (Nachf)", which produced there until 1930.
Father and son Gotthard Startz died in Kornelimünster in 1870 and because father Startz only had one son who in turn died childless, the spinning mills in Aachen and Kornelimünster were sold. The owners and operators changed several times, including the “Goblet & Korreng” cloth factory from 1930 to 1949, until the city of Aachen took over the area and the buildings at Löhergraben in 1975 and restored the complex between 1978 and 1981 under the leadership of Winfried Wolks let. The former Startz spinning mill was later included in the cross-border wool route initiative .
The future writer Walter Hasenclever was born in the immediate vicinity of the building on July 8, 1890 . In his honor, a commemorative plaque designed by the graphic artist Klaus Endrikat was placed on the side next to the fireplace by the city of Aachen as part of the “ Paths against forgetting ” campaign . The following text is engraved on it:
“The poet and pacifist Walter Hasenclever was born on July 8, 1890 in the villa, which was directly connected to this former factory building. The winner of the Kleist Prize in 1917 lived and worked in Leipzig , Dresden , Berlin , Paris and Hollywood . Since 1933 mainly in emigration in the south of France, he was expatriated in 1938 as a “degenerate” writer. In view of the French defeat and fearing imminent arrest by the Gestapo , he committed suicide on June 21, 1940 in the internment camp in Les Milles . "
Barockfabrik cultural center
Baroque factory initiative
At the end of 1977 the Barockfabrik initiative was founded , an amalgamation of eight artist groups who wanted the Barockfabrik as an artist and community center. The founding groups were the Interest Group for Visual Artists (IBK) , the Aachen Children's Stage, Lina (Aachen Literature Initiative), the 1st Aachen Music Cooperative, Blaustich (the Aachen film and happening group), the Aachen video workshop , the Aachen dance workshop and the social pedagogue group . At the beginning of 1978 the groups Film der Jugend Aachen and the pantomime theater Cobold & Co. joined. Thereafter, the use was negotiated for six years until the parties reached a political compromise.
The house was awarded to the Barockfabrik initiative; the ground floor housed an event room with foyer , a stage room for the puppet stage and a restaurant. On the first floor there was a practice room, a workshop for the puppet stage and a work room for the youth film and the children's stage. The second floor contained the fine arts workshop, a darkroom , a workshop with a video editing table and a dance room. The top two floors were made available exclusively to the Aachen City Archives , which used the two floors as archive rooms.
Baroque factory for artists and citizens
After renovations, the official opening of the artist and community center Barockfabrik took place on 16./17. January 1982 with a festival. The concept included changing exhibitions and interdisciplinary projects that took place in the rent-free premises. The following artist groups were represented in the implementation: AVANTI children's and youth theater, film of the youth, city puppet stage, dance workshop, video workshop, 1st Aachen music cooperation as well as the film and action group Blaustich.
The artist and community center was well received by the citizens, but due to insufficient financial support from the city of Aachen it became increasingly difficult to offer an appealing program. Independent management turned out to be problematic. The artist and community center Barockfabrik also suffered from a lack of space. The move from the city archives was requested, but not achieved.
Municipal sponsorship
On September 14, 1993 the culture committee of the city of Aachen decided on a new usage concept for the baroque factory with a focus on children and youth culture. From 2007 to July 2017, the “Center for Child and Youth Culture” was created by the city. Groups that are already resident should be given preference. The dance workshop, the Öcher Schängchen town puppet theater and the Couleur café were also represented. The archives of the city archives were moved there after the needle factory was founded in 2013. The theater pedagogue Helga Hanek took over the post of full-time coordinator on January 1, 1994. The reopening took place on August 13, 1994 by the Lord Mayor Jürgen Linden with a party. Symbolically, a paper mascot of the fantasy dragon “Fuschu”, who had guarded the now former artist and town hall for 12 years, was burned, and a blue flower was grown from its ashes as a new beginning.
Program booklet
The first program booklet contained a 150-page range of courses in the areas of music, painting, plastic design, video, literature, dance, theater, puppet shows as well as “experimentation courses” such as jewelry and costume design. Weekend workshops, performances and guest performances were also part of the program, including the "Zinnoberrot art workshop" and the "felt workshop". In addition to the focus on children's and youth culture, there were also events for adults in the evenings.
The newly designed forecourt was inaugurated by Mayor Jürgen Linden at the beginning of April. It is designed like an inner courtyard with small stairs and walls, and a third of the space is available for outdoor serving. After Helga Hanek had headed the Barockfabrik for 13 years, she had to retire at the end of 2007 for health reasons and the city of Aachen rededicated the former children's and youth culture house Barockfabrik as the center for children's and youth culture . Alexandra Lünskens took over the management.
Todays use
House of cultural diversity
On the basis of a new concept by the City of Aachen's Culture Works Committee, the Baroque factory was rededicated as a house of cultural diversity, cooperation and education . An organizational concept enables volunteer and professional cultural workers to work together. In addition to firmly anchored institutions such as the Theaterschule Aachen eV for drama • directing • musical , the AAK ( Aachen Carnival Committee ) , the Öcher Schängchen city puppet stage , the dance workshop Art moves eV , the VHS adult education center, and the theater project Theater Starter , the Red Hall , Dance workshop, theater / music room , also rented to other interested cultural groups.
Still in municipal sponsorship
The baroque factory as a building remains under the municipal sponsorship of the Aachen cultural enterprise and is managed in a so-called “mixed use”. This means that some rooms are rented out permanently and other rooms only temporarily. The so-called café room, the dance room, the red hall, which is primarily used by the Öcher Schängchen, and the communal kitchen are to be rented out temporarily.
literature
- Aachener Nachrichten of February 18, 1978, January 8, 1981, December 27, 1993, March 26, 1997, April 8, 1994 and August 15, 1994
- Letter from the city of Aachen to the Barockfabrik eV initiative for the reorganization of the Barockfabrik dated September 16, 1993
- Achener Volkszeitung from March 22, 1994 and August 15, 1994
- Klenkes , issue for August 1994
- Aachen City Courier from August 3, 1994 and August 17, 1994
- Department for Education and Culture, School, Youth and Sport (Ed.): Overall municipal concept for cultural education of the city of Aachen from October 15, 2013
Web links
- Theater School Aachen
- Theater project theater starter
- Walter Buschmann: Startz spinning mill in Aachen . Article with building history and description of the baroque factory on the website of the Rheinische Industriekultur e. V.
Individual evidence
- ^ Baroque factory usage concept , public / non-public meeting of the Culture Works Committee on November 28, 2017
- ↑ Year of death "1870" according to the Club Aachener Casino archive , in some sources (including Rheinische Industriekultur ) 1848 is given as the year of death, whereby 1870 is more credible from the proven activities in the factories in Aachen and Kornelimünster.
- ↑ Steam engines for the Startz spinning mill , on albert-gieseler.de
- ^ Sandra Charlet: Cloth factory Delius in Aachen , in Rheinische Industriekultur
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 6 ° 4 ′ 45.3 ″ E