Wettingen spinning mill

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The spinning mill building on the Wettinger monastery peninsula
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The Wettingen spinning mill is located on the Wettingen monastery peninsula , which was owned by the monastery until the abbey was closed in 1841.

history

After the industrialist Johann Wild had acquired a license to use the Limmat water in 1857 , he founded the cotton spinning mill there in 1858 . The weaving and spinning machines in the six-story building were powered by two Jonval turbines . In the same year the spinning mill was expanded to include a two-storey weaving mill; both buildings were separated by the canal of the former monastery mill. Five years later, Wild had a food store built in the Klosterrüti on the Neuenhofer side and the ferry replaced with a bridge . In 1865 a weaving mill was built in Damsau , where the Neuenhofer district is todayWebermühle is located. In 1902 the Jonval turbines were replaced by Francis turbines and in 1911 the company, which had since been in the hands of the founder's sons-in-law, went bankrupt.

Its successor was the cotton spinning and weaving mill Wettingen AG , which was taken over by Jakob Heusser-Staub from Zurich in 1929 . He sold the land and the water rights to the city of Zurich , whose power plant built the Wettingen power plant a few hundred meters above between 1930 and 1933 and demolished the factory power plant . The canal between the two spinning mill buildings was filled in.

The weaving mill and the spinning mill were closed in 1972 and the building was converted into commercial and studios. In 1974 a group initiated a studio and action center. The interdisciplinary group from the fields of art , architecture , photography , design , music and physics was very active and addressed a large audience. In the spinning mill, artists such as Ruedi Bechtler , Liliane Csuka and Beat Zoderer presented their first solo exhibitions. In 1975, at the invitation of Bechtler , the artist Roman Signer carried out an artistic blast in the Limmat in front of the spinning mill.

Today are among other buildings of the district school Wettingen , the social enterprises turning point and the brewery LägereBräu in the old mill.

The buildings are under monument protection.

Web links

Commons : Spinnerei Wettingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabina Galbiati: The last "Apostle": Now the twelfth Werkmeisterhaus is also disappearing. Aargauer Zeitung , February 17, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ See Silvia Dörnenburg u. a. (Ed.): Currently. 15 years of atelier community spinning mill Wettingen , self-published, Wettingen 1989.

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 20 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 46"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-five  /  256,465