Hasselbach & Westerkamp cloth factory
The former cloth factory “Hasselbach & Westerkamp” with factory building, the factory owner's villa with garden and the office building is a listed building group in Cottbus .
history
Christoph Hasselbach, the son of a cloth maker, who was born in Göttingen on December 7, 1841, married Anna Kühn, daughter of the carpet manufacturer Kühn, on December 15, 1867 in Cottbus, and in 1868 founded a small cloth factory. A riding facility in the middle of the city, today unimaginable, around 1900 it was Cottbus reality. In 1889, cloth manufacturer Adolf Westkamp owned a complex of riding hall, stable, residential and club house on Wernerstraße / corner of Wilhelm-Külz-Straße. Christoph Hasselbach and Adolf Westerkamp merged their separate companies in 1868 and now combined full laundry, dyeing and spinning. Twisting, weaving, fulling and finishing under the company name "Hasselbach & Westerkamp". In 1880, Christoph Hasselbach and Adolf Westerkamp bought Adolf Ziesche's textile factory in Ostrower Strasse, which had been in existence since 1862. Taken over by Hasselbach & Westerkamp in 1880, Christoph Hasselbach was the sole owner from 1898. Then the cloth factory was handed over to the sons Max and Otto Hasselbach (Christoph Hasselbach died on September 5, 1915 in Cottbus).
Building history and description
Factory building
The factory building in Ostrower Wohnpark 7, the former spinning mill, was built in 1925/26 according to the plans of the renowned Cottbus architect Rudolf Stiefler. The former spinning mill building on the property boundary to Auguste-Stift , originally forming the southern end of the factory yard, is now on the new street Ostrower Wohnpark. The building, faced with red clinker bricks, is an iron-concrete skeleton construction with a flat roof. On its narrow sides with a parapet , head buildings cantilevered towards the north, the corners of which are accentuated by massive, pillar-like structures. Here, too, the edges are provided with vertical gradations. On the long sides, the storeys are creatively combined by a circumferential plinth or eaves cornice as well as a pilaster structure between the window axes. The windows are set back behind the wall by staggering the reveals. The connecting parapet field is walled up in varying braided patterns (on the west side the windows of the upper floor were added in 1995 in adequate braided tape patterns). The lintels on the second floor are connected by profile strips which, together with the eaves, form a kind of entablature zone. On the north facade, the central axis has a raised entrance risalit , which was later converted into a freight elevator. The remainder on the southern side of the area (former spinning mill) is hardly recognizable today as part of a cloth factory. A bowling center and a supermarket are currently located here.
Factory owner's villa
The villa at Ostrower Straße 15 was probably built in 1878. It is a cubic plastered building under a flat monopitch roof in the form of the neo-renaissance, based on Italian models. In the access area there is a mosaic pavement with a Star of David and high-quality interior fittings (stucco ceilings, wood paneling, cast-iron stairs). The first owner was Adolf Westerkamp, who lived in it with Christoph Hasselbach. From 1926 the owner was E. Hasselbach. In the GDR the building was the seat of the Cottbus Monument Preservation. The villa is one of the grandest factory owner's houses of the late 1870s and still illustrates the owners' high standards of representation. In the villa gardens originally laid out around 1880, only a few old trees have survived; these are integrated into a newly created open space. There is an older chestnut on the north side of the building. The front garden is bordered on the street side by a pergola, which consists of a plinth and pillars made of red clinker, and is bordered by iron fence panels. The villa has been refurbished and houses offices for various companies. Only the facade of the wing of the former office to the west still exists today. The letters H and W (Hasselbach & Westkamp) can still be found in Ostrower Straße on the cast-iron window bars of the office building, of which only the front is still standing.
meaning
The cloth factory was one of the leading textile companies in Cottbus until the 1970s, when it was converted into the state-owned company "VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus" in 1972. Until 1972 the company produced Ulster, sports and fine carded yarn and Cheviot suit fabrics with state participation. From 1976 it was called VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus and worked under this name until 1991, when the factory ended. The old factory building was demolished in the 1996 / 97s for residential development (which did not take place).
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall, revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, 2000, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03054-9
- Irmgard Ackermann, Marcus Cante, Antje Mues: Monuments in Brandenburg, Volume 2.1, City of Cottbus Part 1: Old Town, Mühleninsel, Neustadt and Ostrow, inner Spremberger suburb, “ City Promenade ”, western expansion of the city, historic Brunschwig. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein, 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9