Textilkontor (Erfurt)

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Illustration of the Erfurt headquarters (left) and the Chemnitz branch (right) on the letterhead of the purchasing cooperative (around 1920)

The textile office was a combined warehouse and office building built in 1912 in Erfurt , Theo-Neubauer-Straße 25. It was a listed building , but fell into disrepair from 1990 due to lack of use and was finally demolished in December 2014.

history

The building was for 1900 in Gera founded German purchasing cooperative for short -, white and woolen goods - eGmbH built in 1947 in the British zone of occupation as German purchasing cooperative of textiles eGmbH based in Neuss was continued. This cooperative was one of the largest in the textile industry and achieved a turnover of 12,212,000 Reichsmarks in the 1925 financial year . At the same time, a property area of ​​8,200 m² and a usable area of 10,600 m² on five floors were specified for the cooperative headquarters in Erfurt .

The new building stood inside a closed perimeter block development with residential houses and was assigned to the north-facing, not preserved front building at Müfflingstraße 25 (after 1945 Theo-Neubauer-Straße 25). Was constructed the building as reinforced concrete - frame construction , the facades were neoclassical design, covered the roof with bricks.

The first construction phase from 1912, the north facade of which is documented by a graphic representation in the letterhead of the cooperative, comprised the western part of the building with five axes and the three-axis, gabled risalit , later the building was extended to the east by five axes and a two-axis risalit. On the southern long side of the structure there were three single-axis porches for vertical access through stairs and elevators. The triple windows on both long sides of the building were also characteristic. The more recent sources give no information about the architect of the building.

In 1939 a further expansion by two generous side wings was planned, but this was not done due to the war. In 1950 the building belonged to the Thuringian Consumption Association, Textile Department , and then to the Wholesale Company (GHG) Textile Goods . It had been empty since 1990, fell into disrepair and increasingly became a burden for residents.

literature

  • Iris Pelny: For a long time, the Erfurt wholesale warehouse looked like a city palace. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , Erfurt edition, from June 19, 2012. ( online )
  • Birgit Kummer: Historical textile office disappears. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , Erfurt edition, from December 15, 2014. ( online )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter von Schmaedel: leadership of the association. Problems of internal association formation of will. (= Studies on Groups and Associations , Volume 7.) Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1968, p. 212.
  2. ↑ Heinz Kleinen: The expansion of medium-sized trading companies through large mergers. (= Treatises on SME Research , Volume 32.) Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne / Opladen 1968, p. 73.
  3. ↑ a b Economic Chronicle for the year 1926. G. Fischer, Jena 1926, p. 164.
  4. ↑ For the Chemnitz branch, a new building was built in 1928–1929 based on a design by the Erfurt architect Georg Bierbaum . (Jens Kassner: Chemnitz in the "Golden Twenties". Architecture and urban development. Chemnitz 2000, ISBN 3-910186-28-9 , p. 47.) Bierbaum also created various industrial buildings in Erfurt, such as For example, the extension of the Wolff malt factory, which is only one block away from the cooperative headquarters. Whether Bierbaum was already active in Erfurt in 1912 and thus also came into question as the author of the textile office is completely unclear.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 49.3 ″  E