Torkuhl
The Lübeck C. G. Torkuhl is Germany's oldest lingerie shop in family ownership.
Companies
On June 1, 1761, Carl Gustav Torkuhl opened the CH Woisin Wwe. & Torkuhl shop in Fünfhausen 31 in the shadow of the Marienkirche . It is now in the eighth generation. It moved to no.23 and finally had its seat in no.12 . During the Rococo period , the linen trader's customers mainly included the military and mills. The demand for finer linen , which was used for shirts , bodices and underwear at that time , resulted in an expansion of the range . When Napoléon ruled Europe years later , underpants were also part of the overall fashionable outfit of men and women. The lingerie business expands and a tailor's shop is added. The wedding of the corset took place from 1840 to 1870 . It went completely out of fashion during the First World War . Women are increasingly working and the women's movement is growing stronger. Clara Torkuhl is not only the first owner of a sewing machine in the Hanseatic city, but also the first head master of the Lübeck laundry tailoring guild . After the war, fashion changes radically and the stiff linen has had its day and the brassiere came into fashion. During the Second World War , the commercial building was completely destroyed in the air raid on Lübeck on March 29, 1942 .
1950 a new beginning is dared in the Mühlenstrasse . The laundry house developed into a dowry business .
Products from Triumph , Bleyle , Jockey and Schiesser are sold.
literature
- Günter Kruse: The first linen dealers Torkuhl in Lübeck: on the family history of the Lübeck textile house. In: Genealogy , 61 (2012), 4. - pp. 303-318
- Anniversary prospectus
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten : Special advertising publication in the May 31, 2011 issue
- ^ Lübeck address book for the year 1798
- ^ Lübeck address book for the year 1815