Municipal slaughterhouse in Worms
The site of the former municipal slaughterhouse (also known as the old slaughterhouse in the local signs ) in Worms forms a monument zone . The slaughterhouse was planned by city architect Georg Metzler and inaugurated on August 12, 1912. It was built south of the Rhine bridge on an area of 25,000 square meters. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Art Nouveau buildings on the east side of the area facing the Rhine were supplemented by sheds and extensions that were later demolished.
history
Predecessor buildings of the slaughterhouse from 1912 were the slaughterhouse and guild house of the butchers on Wollstrasse including Scharn on Neumarkt as well as another slaughterhouse that was reserved for Jews. The building on Wollstrasse probably already existed in the 16th, but at the latest in the 17th century. The city fire of 1689 severely affected these facilities; In 1720 a new building was erected on Wollstrasse. After the dissolution of the guilds , this slaughterhouse became the property of the city. It was expanded and changed in the 1740s. In 1888/89 it was enlarged again after the Darmstädter Hof and the Carle'sche Hofreite had been added to the slaughterhouse property, but this did not permanently eliminate the shortage of space. The butchers did not consider further changes to the old slaughterhouse, such as the addition of cold stores and stables, to be sensible at this point, as the slaughterhouse was on the one hand in a residential area, but on the other hand neighboring tanneries posed a hygiene risk.
The new Lord Mayor Heinrich Köhler referred to the need for a new plant when he took office in 1898; The application for a new building was then submitted to the city council towards the end of 1900. In 1906 a commission was put together to clarify the actual needs and to find out about the current possibilities in modern slaughterhouses. The report of the results was available in November 1907.
When choosing the property, particular attention was paid to a convenient location and the problem-free supply of water and disposal of waste water. The site on Vangionenring, then owned by the city, was finally preferred to an alternative on Hafenstrasse in 1908. It first had to be filled with gravel from the Rhine in order to ensure that the slaughterhouse would be flood-free. This started in November 1909. The actual construction of the slaughterhouse began on May 15, 1911; The work was completed in the summer of 1912.
Metzler planned an ergonomic arrangement of the buildings: From the loading ramp on the connecting route to the city port railway, the animals got into the stables and from there into the slaughterhouses. Behind it was a connecting hall that led to the cold store. The stables offered space for 300 pigs and 75 large cattle. There was also accommodation for smaller animals. Separate from this facility there was also a horse and medical slaughterhouse. The draft horses for the meat carts were also kept separate. A meat sterilizer and a Kori incinerator were also installed near the steam boiler . An administration building and a sales point for inferior meat were also part of the facilities on the slaughterhouse site, as well as technical facilities such as lighting and a low-voltage system, etc.
The cold store, equipped with ammonia-powered air cooling, also served to dry and clean the slaughtered meat. The meat reached the pre-cooling hall on an elevated train that drove from the slaughterhouse directly into the pre-cooling hall. There were 87 cells available that could be rented by butchers. There were also 15 curing cells.
The connecting hall through which the meat transport vehicles drove was primarily used to protect people and the slaughtered goods from the weather. It was adorned on the gable sides by two reinforced concrete portals, which were repeated on other facades in a simplified form. The gray-green tiles that adorned the lower part of the walls were also recurring elements of the ensemble, which had red tile roofs and white plastered walls. The connecting hall was used as a market hall after its restoration in the 1990s.
In the mid-1970s, the slaughterhouse lost its importance as more and more meat was being delivered from abroad, which only had to be cut up in the slaughterhouse.
The market hall, bistro, some side wings and the already insolvent Jewo Fleischwarenhandelsgesellschaft were temporarily owned by Wormser Schlachthofbetriebs GmbH. After both this company and the collection company Jewo Betriebs GmbH had become insolvent, the slaughterhouse complex was left to decay. Initially estimated at 1.5 million euros, it soon had a market value of 700,000 to 800,000 euros. Buyers did not find each other straight away, as the protection of monuments restricted the property's possible uses.
In November 2012 the slaughterhouse became the property of Klaus Karlin and Murat Basaran. These investors decided to demolish the buildings and extensions from the 1950s and 1960s on the Rhine side that were not listed. The market hall with its annexes and the former bull slaughterhouse on the south side of the site are considered worth preserving. There is also an old tower and a machine house from the time the slaughterhouse was built. Karlin envisions using the historic building as a catering, training and event space, which should be possible from 2015 or 2016.
literature
- Georg Wilhelm Metzler: The new slaughterhouse in the city of Worms. Kranzbühler 1912.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Worms. ( Memento from June 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Mainz 2018 [ Version 2020 is available. ] , P. 18 (PDF; 5.0 MB).
- ↑ a b Roland Keth: Slaughterhouse extensions in Worms are demolished: Art Nouveau complex is retained. In: Wormser Zeitung. January 14, 2014 ( wormser-zeitung.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) .
- ↑ a b Ulrike Schäfer: "Artistically and conceptually exemplary": The new Worms slaughterhouse. In: Worms 2012. Home year book for the city of Worms. 7th year, Worms-Verlag 2011, pp. 86–93 ( worms-verlag.de ( memento of the original dated November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. PDF).
- ↑ Jörg Koch: Worms 100 years ago . Sutton, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-95400-020-3 , p. 27 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 37 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 31.5 ″ E