Wilhelm Müller cloth factory
The former Wilhelm Müller cloth factory is a listed building on Ostrower Damm in Cottbus .
history
On the southern edge of Neustadt, between Rosenstrasse and today's Franz-Mehring-Strasse, the dyer and cloth maker Wilhelm Ruff founded his factory along the Mühlgraben around 1760 as one of the first manufacturers in Cottbus. The Ruff residential building was rebuilt in 1781 after a lightning strike destroyed the previous building. It was an example of late baroque upper-class residential architecture in Cottbus and was completely demolished in 2008 due to its dilapidation. The main building of the cloth factory from the second half of the 18th century was an elongated two-story factory building with a mansard hipped roof. In 1882 and 1883 the factory building was expanded by the new owners. In 1909 the factory building was owned by Wilhelm Müller and burned down in 1915. A new building made of steel and concrete was built on the preserved foundation walls, which was attached to the north side of the house.
architecture
The newly built four-storey factory building extends to Rosenstrasse and has a slightly inclined monopitch roof . Inside there is a room with six cross vaults that served as a dyers' room. This is followed by a small room covered with four cross vaults and a storage room, the stairs of which lead to the upper floors. The east facade is structured by three-storey, gabled side or middle risalites with flat colossal pilasters . In the gable of the central risalit there is a thermal bath window, which shows allegories of the spinning mill and the dye works and is flanked by relief figures. The window shapes on the three lower floors are rectangular and arranged in pairs. The windows on the upper floor are arranged in a different order and are made wider. In addition, the parapet area of the upper floor is decorated with stucco medallions . The windows in the risalits have a square outline. Segmented arched windows are inserted on the four-axis narrow side to Rosenstrasse in the basement, including older wall parts. The staircases and rows of reinforced concrete supports that divide the floors into three-aisled rooms have been preserved inside. The side wing from the late 19th century is decorated with segmented arched windows. Double-row round columns and longitudinal beams on which Prussian caps rest are located on the ground floor of the side wing. In 1915, the upper floors were renewed with double-row reinforced concrete columns with cuttings to the longitudinal beams and the roof structure. A terrace roof with skylights was built into the roof pitch.
meaning
The factory building is one of the notable examples of industrial architecture from before the First World War. With its reinforced concrete construction, which can be seen on the grid facade, and the classicism- oriented risal structure with thermal bath window, the building is a document for the typical combination of modern construction and formal recourse to "building around 1800". Today there is a call center in the renovated building and after a new street number was assigned in summer 2008, the building has the address Ostrower Damm 20.
literature
- 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official Gazette of the Municipality of Brandenburg No. 5, 2009
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Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 31 ″ N , 14 ° 20 ′ 18.2 ″ E