Cloth manufacturers in Cottbus
The industrialization of the cloth making trade took place in Cottbus from the middle of the 18th century. The improved possibilities of raw material extraction, the use of steam or electricity for the processing of raw materials, the amalgamation of various trades for the production of cloth and, last but not least, the development of an infrastructure led to the expansion of the textile factories and an increase in production. Cloth manufacturers who invested their assets in the construction of large factories settled in Cottbus . After 1875 there were over 100 textile factories in Cottbus with almost 6,000 textile workers who settled in Cottbus and the surrounding area.
Wilhelm Westerkamp Jr.
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Immediately in front of the bank of the Spree was the former Wilhelm Westerkamp jr. Cloth factory, founded on January 2, 1891, at Parzellenstrasse 27/28. The factory was converted into an electrically operated cloth factory in 1926, expropriated in 1945 and dismantled as a reparation payment. The state-owned Cottbus clothing factory (BeWeCo) was later rented in the building. From 1968 the company belonged to the Cottbus Textile Combine ( TKC ). In 1988 it was handed over to VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus (TUFA), which began again to set up a spinning and weaving preparation facility in these rooms. In 1990 the company shut down carded yarn production and concentrated exclusively on the production of worsted fabrics on the basis of commercial yarns, so in 1990 carded yarn production in Cottbus ended. The building, meanwhile refurbished and renovated, now houses “die fabrik”, a team of independent companies in the graphics and printing industry.
Cloth manufacturer Valte
According to the "Kittelschen Chronik", Heinrich Gustav Valte in the village of Ostrow on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, at the corner of today's Briesmannstraße, was to build a solid construction as a cloth factory with a 12-hp steam power plant, as well as a residential building (today Brandenburger Platz 55) and an administration wing have erected. The Valte family had been living in the Cottbus area since 1652 and owned suitable private property. The cloth shearing factory was the first industrial building in Ostrow. On March 20, 1876, a steam boiler exploded in the factory. When the fire brigade arrived at the scene of the accident, the boiler house, the chimney and large parts of the factory were already a heap of rubble. The fire under the cauldron had spread to the farm building through small and large fragments flying around. After hours of fighting the fire, three dead were found while cleaning up the accident site, the stoker, the machine operator and a worker. It was not until 1910, after a long period of reconstruction, that the entrepreneur Emil Neumann began producing cloth again. The buildings were used in a wide variety of ways until 1990, after 2000 they were demolished and the site is waiting for initiatives and investors.
Cloth factory M. u. O. Sommerfeld
In 1861, the Sommerfeld cloth factory was founded with two branches; The heating plant was located at Parzellenstrasse 91 (on the present-day site of the old, no longer used heating plant for WK 5). The second part of the company was located in what was then Weberstrasse in the area of today's Lobedanstrasse / Inselstrasse. In 1879 several buildings belonged to the factory on an almost square courtyard. The company also owned the adjacent properties in the east and south. At the age of 25, Ludwig Ephraim was co-owner and from 1904 sole owner of the Sommerfeld cloth factory, which was converted into a GmbH in 1921 . The Sommerfeld cloth factory was one of the largest in Cottbus. In 1923 she acquired the company M. & O. Sommerfeld GmbH in Cottbus, which had taken a leading market position with the manufacture of fine carded and worsted products. Both factories and the factory owner's villa on Parzellenstrasse were badly damaged or destroyed by bombs in February 1945. Ludwig Ephraim Sommerfeld worked for many years as a city councilor in Cottbus and was president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Lower Lusatia for many years. At the same time he was a co-founder of the Cottbus web school association. He supported social and cultural institutions with donations. B. the statue of Venus in the dome foyer of the State Theater . He was a very socially minded entrepreneur, long-term employees received a company pension. Ludwig Ephraim died in 1928 and was buried in the southern cemetery.
The United Smyrna Carpet Factory
The foundation of the German carpet industry was laid in Silesia. In 1854 in Laehn and in 1857 in Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains, the Görlitz cloth factory Gevers & Schmidt set up the manufacture of hand-knotted carpets. Before that, the company had a certain number of weavers in the Orient learn the technique of knotting. Already in 1860 there were around 100 weavers working in the company and their products enjoyed a very good international reputation. Theodor Kühn from Cottbus was also involved in setting up the factory in Schmiedeberg. Around 1860 he set up his own business on Dresdener Strasse in Cottbus. In 1872 there was a big fire in the Kühn carpet factory, it broke out in the spinning room of the tenant Görges and completely destroyed the factory. The new building took place within a year on a new plot of land in Berlin's Chausseestrasse 34, now Berliner Strasse 15. This company was taken over in 1873 by the previous cloth manufacturer Oscar Prietsch, who employed up to 25 weavers. In 1897 Max Michaelis took over the management of the company. Up to 400 weavers were employed by the general upswing during this time. The factories in Schmiedeberg and Cottbus, as well as the carpet factories of Dehmann, Spoerer & Friedrichs from Hanover merged to form "United Smyrna-Teppichfabriken AG". There were several takeovers and acquisitions such as the factories Erblich & Michels, Hannover-Linden . In 1910 the machines from the Roeder factory in Ansbach and in 1920 the property and building of the Paatz company from Schmiedeberg were acquired. In 1913 the Lindner factory was given up and the machines and chairs moved to the new building in Cottbus. Up until the 1920s and 30s, around 900 employees and workers were employed in carpet production in Cottbus and Schmiedeberg. Hand-knotted carpets, but also carpets with technical weaving techniques, were produced in Cottbus . These included Tournay carpets, made using a velor technique with different-colored pile warps (a separate warp thread system that results in the actual pile wear layer when weaving pile fabric and is produced with a jacquard pattern on a velor machine weaving technique) and pile carpets. After the Second World War, the company, later also in Plant III of the Cottbus wool factory, produced approx. 50,000–65,000 m² of carpets annually until 1957. Then the relocation to Oelsnitz, Wurzen and Münchenberndorf took place.
Gustav Samson cloth factory
The factory was founded in 1869 by the cloth manufacturer Gustav Samson. In 1874 he built a large production hall. Around 1880 it was expanded to include several single-storey production halls. On March 11, 1889, a fire broke out in the factory's boiler house. In 1923 500 workers and employees were employed. The product range extended to the production of pure wool novelties in carded and worsted yarns. Until 1940 the factory was owned by the Jewish family Dr. Martin Bum. The villa of the Bum family was burned down on the night of the pogrom in 1938 . The attention of a domestic worker saved the owners. The factory was forced to become the property of Spinnstoff GmbH Schwarza und Schwarza. Dr. Martin Bum was expatriated in 1940 and his property was confiscated. Spinnstoff GmbH was managed by German chemists, and synthetic wool fibers were produced here. A special feature of the material was its non-flammability. The factory, which was completely destroyed in 1945, was located at Parzellenstrasse 15 / corner Stromstrasse 13. In 1970, the remnants that had already been restored after the war were given up for the construction of the north ring. The location was right next to the former municipal summer pool, on the site of what is now the Bosse joinery.
Cloth factory Wilhelm Ruff (later Müller)
Between Rosenstrasse and Fürst-Pückler-Strasse (today's Franz-Mehring-Strasse), the dyer and cloth maker Wilhelm Ruff built his factory and a house (later destroyed by a large fire) in the area of the Mühlgraben in 1759, at the same time as the wool spinning houses were completed. He was one of the first cloth manufacturers in Cottbus. The main building of the cloth factory was an elongated two-story factory building. Since there was no factory-specific architecture in the early years of construction around 1800, the design was based on the elements of the existing residential and workhouses. The Ruff factory was one of the elaborately designed factories in Germany at that time. The factory property remained in the possession of the Ruff family until 1856. The following entrepreneurs, FH Mathesius and in 1881 the Krüger brothers expanded the factory after 1883, especially in the area of Rosenstrasse. From 1907 the cloth factory was owned by Wilhelm Müller, who ran a cotton spinning and weaving mill. After a major fire in the main building in 1915, he built the iron and reinforced concrete structure that is still preserved today on the foundation walls. After 1945 the factory was leased for various uses. In 1964 it was used, among other things, as a carpet factory and until 1991 by pharmaceutical wholesalers. Around 1997 the planning of a cinema took place, the planning was discarded because the property conditions were unclear and monument conservation issues were not taken into account. The wool spinning houses were demolished in 1992 and the factory owner's villa was razed in 2008. The factory itself has been gutted, expanded, and houses small businesses and a call center.
Cloth factory Richard Rottka AG
The cloth factory built in 1878 by the builder H. Elias was transferred to the R. Rottka cloth factory on October 1, 1892. After 30 years of existence, it was converted into an AG on September 30, 1922. Particular attention was paid to the production of fine carded yarn men's fabrics such as Paletot and Ulster fabrics. The northern part of the factory complex was separated by the road construction “Fürst-Pückler-Straße 12” (today Franz-Mehring-Straße). On August 2, 1922, the company was hit by a major fire in the factory, in which 50 looms were destroyed. As early as July 1923, after the reconstruction, the factory could be put into full operation (dyeing, spinning, weaving and finishing). From 1916 to 1927 R. Rottka was an unpaid magistrate member (city council) in Cottbus. The two separate four-storey buildings, built as a red brick structure, are provided with a flat pitched roof covered with felt. The factory building grouped around the courtyard (An der Wachsbleiche) is also made of exposed brick architecture.
Cloth factory Ludwig and Wilhelm Polscher
Ludwig Polscher's cloth factory was founded as a small weaving mill in Cottbus in 1880 and has developed slowly but steadily. Later his son Wilhelm Polscher took over the factory. From the day his factory was founded, Ludwig Polscher upheld the principle of only producing quality goods and was one of the first German manufacturers to purchase Scottish yarns for the production of the best men's fabrics according to English taste, which at that time were only spun in Scotland as a specialty. However, when the mechanical equipment, especially in the spinning mills in Germany, was improved later and the overseas trade made direct wool imports from Australia and other countries possible, it was possible to manufacture these quality yarns in Germany as well. The good reputation of the company steadied itself more and more and consequently the turnover increased from year to year. Due to the growing production, the various departments of the company had to be enlarged. The number of looms, spinning and twisting spindles, and auxiliary machines increased steadily. Originally the company was located in the rented premises of the Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Several years later, they moved into new, larger rooms in Parzellenstrasse 93, formerly Gebr. Krüger, until in 1889 the company acquired its own large site opposite the leasing company and had a modern factory built there. But even these rooms were too small in the long run and so the son bought the factory site at Ostrower Damm 11 in 1910. This was equipped with fully electric individual drive devices based on the latest technology at the time. The entire power plant of the new factory, which was carried out by Siemens-Schuckert, comprised 100 electric motors with a total power of approx. 250 HP. With these individual drives, the most economical use of electrical power was guaranteed and downtimes of the entire system were completely excluded. Thanks to this system, the company was able to work in two or even three shifts without any downtime during the war and the transition period, thus meeting delivery obligations. Wilhelm Polscher, the only son of the founder of the cloth factory, joined the company in 1903 and was the sole owner of the business from 1916. Under his leadership, the complete transformation of the company began in 1904, using the experience he had gained and the most modern means. He always tried to purchase all modern facilities that contributed to increasing the efficiency and were necessary to improve the products and to always stay up to date from a technical point of view, because "standing still means going backwards". The First World War did not remain without influence on the development of the company. After a sudden shutdown of the company, because all orders were canceled, the production of military team cloths began immediately. In a short time the factory was completely busy again with army supplies. The difficulties involved in moving to a new, unknown area were quickly resolved by exerting all efforts and the materials supplied were characterized by their excellent durability and quality, so that they were fully recognized by the acceptance authorities. Following the endeavors of the war economy, it was decided to start manufacturing paper fabric and after some difficulties, the entire operation in paper yarn spinning and weaving was successfully converted from the finest hospital garbage to coarse-threaded canvas and sackcloth substitutes. Thanks to its efficiency and adaptability, the factory received such large orders that it had to work in double and triple shifts. The department heads received the war aid cross from the emperor. After the war and with the abolition of the forced economy for wool, the factory immediately started again with the production of peace products. Efforts were made to maintain the good old reputation as one of the leading companies in the production of modern English-style men's fabrics. In 1945 the cloth factory was partially destroyed. On September 9, 1946, the Polscher cloth factory was expropriated and turned into the "Vorwärts" cloth factory, in 1953 VEB Cloth Factory Cottbus (Plant III). Until the early 1960s, the Cottbus cloth factory used the rooms for the carded yarn spinning mill. From 1968 everything belonged to the Cottbus textile combine. After the fall of the Wall, the property had many different users. On May 15, 2013 the construction phase for 5 comfortable residential buildings on the site of the former cloth factory began with the groundbreaking ceremony.
Cloth wholesale and mail order Michovius
In 1843 FW Michovius founded a cloth making business, which he linked with a cloth trade. To this end, he first moved into business premises in the Dreifert House (a corner building on the Altmarkt). In 1856 he built a new shop on the property, in which the company was active until 1912. After the death of the company founder, the new management of the expanding company decided in 1910 to build another new building in Lieberoser Straße, which was completed in 1912. This company headquarters in Cottbus became known under the name "Tuchgroßversand und Uniformfabrik Michovius". The building continued to be used as a textile wholesale cooperative until 1989. After many years of training, the building was comprehensively renovated in 2012/13, taking into account the requirements of monument protection. A modern residential and business complex was created with condominiums, medical practices and offices for small businesses.
Ernst Michaelis cloth factory
The cloth factory 1 by Ernst Michaelis was founded at Ostrower-Damm 12 around 1800, around the same time the cloth factory 2 at the Eichenpark was built with a siding for the horse-drawn railway. The production profile was multi-layered: it was milled, lightfast colors applied to loose wool, worsted and carded yarn wound in skein and on a cross, wool and wool yarn bleached, vat dyeing (suitable for dyeing polyester) offered for delivery cloth, knitting, stocking and carpet yarns as well as staple fibers and also offered piece dyeing as contract work for other companies. The partial dyeing of yarns was taken over as wage labor. Ernst Michaelis was an unpaid magistrate (city council) from 1918 to 1924. In addition to the company "Ernst Michaelis & Co.", there were eight other private or semi-public textile companies in Cottbus with a total of around 580 employees.
Cloth manufacturer Hermann Löw
Hermann Löw rebuilt the factory that burned down in 1892, built in 1829 by the cloth manufacturer F. Weber, and founded the Priorfabrik on Priorgraben. This factory is particularly noteworthy because of the extensive horticultural designed outdoor facilities that not only surrounded the residential building, but also ran through the entire factory site. Today there is a health center on the site. It is located on Madlower Chaussee on Priorgraben.
Cloth factory Carl Loll GmbH
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In 1897 the company was named after the owner Carl Loll. More than 100 years ago, his great-grandfather laid the foundations for a cloth factory in Falkenberg / Pomerania. He then moved the company to Kallies / Pomerania. There the company mainly produced uniform fabrics, it was a supplier to all authorities. At the same time, of course, other men's fabrics were also produced. Due to the difficult war conditions, the family had to switch most of the production from uniform to civilian cloth, which prompted the later owner Fritz Loll to move the business to Cottbus. At the beginning of 1922, the property in Ostrower Strasse was acquired. In addition to the main operation, the commercial area was also located there. The spinning mill was housed in the branch factory at Parzellenstrasse 21/22. In the manufacture of civil goods, the company benefited from its vast experience in uniform cloth manufacture.
Richard Otto carpet factory
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The carpet factory was founded in 1924 by Richard Otto at Pückler Strasse 13/14 (today Franz-Mehring-Strasse). Hand-knotted carpets, bridges and rugs with a representative character were produced, but Axminster carpets (pile carpets woven using velor machine weaving technology) were also part of the company's range. After the death of the last, unknown owner, the factory with all its machines went to the VEB Wurzener Teppichfabrik, the workforce was transferred to the TKC and the hand-knotting shop was discontinued. In Cottbus, the carpet industry was not as strong as the cloth clothing industry.
Carpet factory Krüger & Hahn
In 1894 the carpet factory Krüger & Hahn was founded with its headquarters on Otrower Damm / Inselstraße. The product range ranged from carpets, bridges, rugs to rugs. The production of artistically valuable hand-knotted carpets was particularly successful. The company existed until the nationalization in 1972, after which it was continued as VEB Teppiche Cottbus. In 1991 the company had to be re-privatized, the previous owners stopped production immediately and closed the factory.
Cloth manufacturer Moritz Kittel
The first Cottbus manufacturer to receive a factory license from the Prussian government on October 2, 1835 was Heinrich Kittel. In 1829 he had taken part of the Priorfließ, an artificially created branch of the Spree for the water supply of the Glinziger ponds, into a long lease from Carl Trauvogel in Madlow. With the help of water power he operated a finishing (refinement of yarns and fabrics) and a fulling machine for the mechanical deformation of cloths. From 1840 he started using the first two Cartwright mechanical looms in his factory in Madlow. This laid the foundation for the beginnings of large companies in the Cottbus textile industry. On his property in Neustadt 2 (Neustädter Tor) he ran roving machines, English fine spinning machines, looms and a cloth press. From 1842 to 1852 Moritz Kittel also ran a cloth factory at Klosterplatz 3 (a former malt kiln and today's youth hostel). Before that, Samuel Kittel had already had a cloth factory and a house at Klosterplatz 5. Moritz Kittel built a cloth factory with a steam engine with an output of 5 hp between Spree and Zimmerstrasse (across from the Lutze Brothers factory) in 1852. He worked with his future partner, the merchant Otto Serno. Since the plant was already fully utilized after a short time, a multi-storey factory was built using greater steam power. Otto Serno left the group in 1870 and the factory was sold to the manufacturer Gustav Krüger, who ran it until his heirs sold the entire property in equal parts to the cloth manufacturer Paul Franke and the spinning mill manufacturer Gustav Otto. As early as 1930, the entire factory complex was demolished by the subsequent owners due to the poor utilization and a park was created. Parts of the park on which the building of the former state central bank and city villas were built are still preserved today.
Cloth manufacturer Max von Kessel
Built at the end of the 19th century, the factory for the cloth manufacturer Hilpert was located on Fürst-Pückler-Straße (today Franz-Mehring-Straße) opposite the W. Müller cloth factory. Then the factory moved to the dyer August Nicolai, later owners were Samuel Ferdinand Koppe and Adolf and Franz Koppe. These leased rooms to the cloth manufacturer Jürss & Egler, who bought the factory in 1921. From 1925 Max von Kessel was the sole owner, he was expropriated in 1946 and the company was converted into VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus (TUFA). Here worsted and woolen woolen fabrics were made. The factory was closed at the beginning of 1990. The factory complex, including the boiler house, was then partially demolished. After 2012, the rest was taken care of by the apartment rental company “ e. G. Living “gutted and remodeled.
Max von Kessel was born in Mexico in 1885. He was the eldest son of (Konstantin Johann August) Leopold von Kessel (1853–1928), who ran a silver mine in Mexico. His mother's name was Sofie, née Windisch (1866–1924). He had a younger brother.
Maximilian von Kessel studied textile engineering at the Technical University of Aachen from 1909 to 1913 and in 1925 acquired the Jürss & Elger cloth factory in Cottbus, which he operated until the end of the war in 1945. As one of the few Cottbus industrialists of his time, he always bought the wool for his factory in Australia at the best prices, thereby gaining competitive advantages. During production, he oriented himself towards the high standards of Aachener Tuche. Fabrics with a complex surface structure, such as loop and knot goods ( terrycloth ), formed a basis for the company's growth to up to 235 employees. It was expropriated in 1946 and the company was converted into VEB TUFA. The construction of a high-performance power station on the company premises, with which it was able to partially supply the city of Cottbus with energy, came about at a time when many companies in Cottbus were converting from central steam engines to electric motors at the same time, resulting in delivery bottlenecks in the city's electricity supply. The construction of modern accommodation and a factory kitchen for the Soviet female forced laborers (after 1942) on the factory premises are two further central structural measures of his creative period. Parts of the factory at Ostrower Damm 17/18, Franz-Mehring-Straße 62 were placed under monument protection. Knowing that he had never been guilty of guilt during the Nazi era, he drove to his factory every day after the city was occupied by the Red Army, where parts of the workforce accused him of sabotage, which led to his imprisonment. He was taken to the Jamlitz internment camp near Cottbus by the Russian occupation on September 25, 1945 and pronounced dead on August 1, 1949. The exact circumstances of his death are unclear. The family tree database of the German nobility gives October 1945 as the time of death.
Maximilian von Kessel was married twice. The first marriage with Elsa Wlazil in Cottbus on December 16, 1919, was divorced on November 18, 1931. The second marriage with Gisela Wingenfeld (born January 29, 1912 in Düsseldorf) was concluded on January 5, 1932 in Hamburg. The daughter Helga Gisela von Kessel (today Helga Leufen) was born on July 30, 1935 in Berlin. The son Wolf-Christoph, born in 1937, died in 1941. Gisela left Maximilian von Kessel in 1945. In his free time, von Kessel was a passionate hunter.
Cloth manufacturers Kehrl
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Rudolf Kehrl, born on December 31, 1836 in Brandenburg, set up a cloth factory in his hometown. His sons, Gustav and Richard, took over their father's company in 1903. After it burned down completely in 1913, the new company headquarters were relocated to Cottbus, where production was initially carried out in rented rooms. In 1914 the Kehrl brothers bought the plot of land from the Cottbus cloth manufacturers Textor & Prochatschek, which at that time was already being managed by the Jewish manufacturer Eisler. The factory built by Textor & Prochatschek in 1883 in the Spree area of Parzellenstrasse 10 included the four-storey, elongated factory building, a stair tower at the side and the boiler house.
The Kehrl brothers expanded production with modern spinning, weaving and finishing machines. Fabrics made mainly from fine carded, dominating it was "Marengo Melton ." Marengo, named after a place in Italy, is a carded yarn made of black wool to which 3–5% fine white material was added, which was mainly used in men's outerwear. The carded or worsted fabric with a dark gray to black base tone made from these Marengo yarns in plain or twill weave is given a dense, firm pile, which is determined in the decatur, and on which the white fibers stand out. In 1927 the Kehrls took over Richard Rottka's much larger textile company. This included the factory buildings that still exist today in today's Franz-Mehring-Strasse 55 and Parzellenstrasse. Over 300 workers on steam powered machines produced in large numbers. In order to fulfill the numerous orders, work was also carried out on “wage chairs”. The Second World War with the army orders ensured that the textile factory was well utilized. At that time, Hans Kehrl (Richard's son) ran the company. Hans Kehrl held leading positions in the Nazi state, he was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Niederlausitz, chief of staff at Albert Speer and "integration specialist" for Polish and Ukrainian textile companies in the German Reich. He was jointly responsible for the Nazi robbery and the extermination of people in Europe, and his cloth factory was one of the first to be administered by the state after the war. The textile factory Kehrl was called as factory 2 a part of the VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus, TUFA. In 1992 the liquidation took place, the buildings were rebuilt, renovated and given a new use.
Cloth manufacturer Jürss & Elger
Around 1888, the cloth factory was founded on Ostrower Damm 17/18 opposite the blue bridge as well as today's Franz-Mehring-Straße, also known as the street of the textile manufacturers. Mainly innovations in cloth and buckskin were produced (suit and costume fabric made of wool and viscose yarn). A steam engine with 400 HP was installed in the factory, which drove 1,600 spindles, 1,200 twisting spindles and 44 looms. The factory was built for the cloth manufacturer Hilpert, then taken over by the dyer August Nicolai, later owners were Samuel Ferdinand Koppe as well as Adolf and Franz Koppe. These leased rooms to the cloth manufacturers Jürss & Elger, who bought the factory in 1921. From 1925 Maximilian von Kessel was the sole owner. The company was converted to VEB after 1946 and then traded as Plant 1 of VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus (TUFA). There worsted and woolen woolen fabrics were made.
At the beginning of 1990 the factory was closed, the building complex was partially demolished, the rest gutted and replaced by the apartment rental company “ e. G. Wohnen “converted into apartments and medical practices.
Cloth factory Berthold Herfarth
Cloth manufacturer Berthold Herfarth ran a spinning mill as early as 1901 before taking over Robert Förster's cloth factory at Pücklerstraße 20 / Briesmannstraße 1 in 1919. On February 23, 1929 there was a fire in the side wing of the cloth factory, in the operational statistics 1900–1967 of the Cottbus fire brigade no information was given about the amount of damage. After 1945, Heinz Herfarth continued to run the factory. The private company became a company with state participation. 1972 brought dramatic changes in the structure of the economy. In Cottbus, too, numerous companies that had previously been operated privately or with state participation were nationalized. The traditional company Herfarth went u. a. in the VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus in public ownership. Heinz Herfarth continued to run the company as plant manager at TUFA until 1978. He then left, and the textile factory on Pücklerstrasse was demolished a short time later in a night-and-fog operation. At that time, Heinz Herfarth and his wife were already working on opening a private cloth and fabric store in Sandower Str. 59, corner of Altmarkt. The location of the cloth house on Sandower Straße is one of the most historic in the city center of Cottbus. According to the city chronicle, a house owner was listed here in 1544. Around 1780, the business building in its current form was built by the merchant Ohnesorge. He ran an inn there, where the Cottbus dignitaries met around 1800. In 1991 the building was extensively reconstructed. In 2007, according to the commercial register, the Herfarth cloth house was in liquidation and has closed its doors forever.
Heinrich Jaeger
The cloth manufacturer Ferdinand Gottlieb Heinrich Jäger founded his cloth-making business on August 2, 1860, he began his work with two simple handlooms. His goal was to build a modern, steam powered cloth factory. Spinning mills need water as a driving force, so most Cottbus cloth manufacturers settled on the Spree or on the tributaries of the Spree. One of them was Heinrich Jaeger, who bought another piece of land on the Spree in 1866. As early as 1867, he began to manufacture cloth in the new facility, and at the same time expanded the factory, so in 1890 the factory already had space for 60 looms. However, the rise was not without fluctuations and setbacks. Uncertain political conditions and wartime reduced sales and disrupted export business. Added to this was the constant rise in raw material prices and competition from other Cottbus cloth factories. Nevertheless, Jaeger's success continued. The manufacture of heavy, smooth fabrics declined: the manufacture of patterned and cloth-like fabrics, which took a shorter time to manufacture, came to the fore. At this point, the brand-new Jaeger laboratory proved its worth, particularly in the manufacture of worsted fabrics and the improvement of production lengths. Many future cloth manufacturers learned the basics of cloth production from Heinrich Jaeger before they went into business for themselves. A milestone in the development was the production of patterned worsted fabrics in Jaeger's cloth factories at the end of 1880. With this he created a lead over other cloth manufacturers until the beginning of the First World War. After the war, it was important to ensure the existence and maintenance of his cloth factory. The Heinrich Jaeger cloth factory was expropriated in 1946 and incorporated into the VEB Wollfabrik (Cottbuser Wollwaren) in 1947/48. The company was later incorporated into the Cottbus textile combine. In 2009 the ailing brick building of the former Heinrich Jaeger cloth factory on the Spreebogen was demolished. This ended the history of the 150-year existence of the Heinrich Jaeger cloth factory, which could claim to have introduced large-scale industrial cloth production in the former Lower Lusatian textile town of Cottbus.
Hasselbach & Westerkamp
Christoph Hasselbach, a draper's son born in Göttingen in 1841, married Anna Kühn, daughter of the carpet manufacturer Kühn, in Cottbus in 1867. In 1868 Christoph Hasselbach founded his own small cloth factory in Cottbus. At the time, Adolf Westerkamp also ran his own cloth factory, and in the Wernerstraße / corner of Külzstraße he owned a complex of riding arena, stable, residential and club house.
Christoph Hasselbach and Adolf Westerkamp merged their separate companies in 1880 and combined full laundry, dyeing, spinning, twisting, weaving, fulling and finishing under the company name "Hasselbach & Westerkamp". In the same year Hasselbach and Westerkamp bought Adolf Ziesche's textile factory at Ostrower Straße 15-16, which had existed since 1862. The factory buildings were used until 1996, but then demolished. After 1898, Christoph Hasselbach is the sole owner of the company, and later he handed over his cloth factory to his sons Max and Otto.
Factory building Ostrower Wohnpark 7
The former cloth factory "Hasselbach & Westerkamp" with factory building, the factory owner's villa, the garden and the office building is a listed building group in Cottbus. The factory building in Ostrower Wohnpark 7, the former spinning mill, was built in 1925/1926 by Rudolf Stiefler (Büro für Architektur und Kunstgewerbe Stiefler & Könecke, Cottbus), and until 1970 the cloth factory was one of the leading textile companies in Cottbus. In 1972 it became the last cloth factory to be a state-owned company (VEB Volltuchfabrik). The former spinning mill building on the property boundary with the Augustestift is still standing today at the Ostrower residential park. The other parts of the factory were demolished in 1996/97 in order to build the Ostrow residential park. A shopping and bowling center was rented in the old spinning mill for many years, but the property is now empty and the entire area has been bought by the Sparkasse Spree-Neisse .
Factory owner's villa Ostrower Strasse 15
The villa at Ostrower Straße 15 was probably built in 1878. The first owner was Adolf Westerkamp, who lived in it with Christoph Hasselbach. From 1926 the owner was an E. Hasselbach, probably a family member.
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.
The villa has been renovated and houses office space for various companies, including Hoffmann GmbH, DSK Deutsche Stadt- und Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG and a municipal and industrial insurance broker GmbH.
Max Grünebaum & Julius Kaufmann
Born on November 6, 1851, the son of a Jewish businessman, Max Grünebaum grew up in Lippstadt . After finishing school, he started an apprenticeship there in a cloth shop and attended the weaving school in Mülheim an der Ruhr . At the age of 20 he went to Cottbus and became a weaving master in Heinrich Jäger's cloth factory. In 1876 he founded the “Grünebaum & Kaufmann” cloth factory together with his brother-in-law Julius Kaufmann. In 1882 they bought the parcel road 1 and 2 with the associated factory buildings from the former cloth manufacturer CG Korschel. The factory owner's villa was built in Parzellenstrasse 2 in 1882 and served as a residence for the Grünebaum and Kaufmann families, and later also for the Frank family. In 1892 Julius Kaufmann left the company. Max Grünebaum was the sole owner of the factory for a long time until he made his general manager Frank and his son Ernst Frank (later son-in-law) partners. He was the first local company to introduce fine worsted fabrics from England to Cottbus, which made him a leading manufacturer over the years that followed. Max Grünebaum died on January 19, 1925 at the age of 73. He did not live to see the end of his cloth factory. The family was expelled from Germany for racist reasons and their family property was expropriated. In 1936 the company was Aryanized and a new owner, the cloth manufacturer Müffling, took over the company.
Commitment to Cottbus
In addition to his own cloth factory, Max Grünebaum devoted himself to the general welfare of the city of Cottbus and championed the interests of the textile industry. He was involved in numerous associations, corporations and commissions, some of which he was chairman. From 1889 to 1919 he was a city councilor and represented the city of Cottbus in the provincial state parliament and at city meetings. In recognition of his services, he was made honorary citizenship of the city of Cottbus in 1908 , and a year later he was appointed to the Council of Commerce by the King of Prussia.
Donations in the millions
With great devotion he devoted himself to the social interests of his workers and the citizens of Cottbus. He and his wife Caroline set up numerous foundations, including for poor and sick children, for the forest recreation home and for school plant gardens. He was a great sponsor of the State Theater , to which he donated a theater curtain worth a substantial 7,354.75 Reichsmarks at the time. He set up a pension fund for his workers.
Max Grünebaum Foundation
In memory of the work of Kommerzienrat Max Grünebaum in Cottbus, the grandchildren established the “Max Grünebaum Foundation” in May 1997. Max Grünebaum's four grandchildren, Ellen Gumbel, Marion Frank, Karl Newman and Ursula Hulme, made their assets from compensation payments available to the foundation. The aim of the foundation is to support the Cottbus State Theater and the Brandenburg Technical University by promoting young artists and academics. The good relations between Cottbus and England are also being expanded. Interest in the language, culture and history of the country should be aroused and deepened. Young talented people from the State Theater and the Brandenburg Technical University are supported with a young talent award . The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and has been awarded annually since 1997. A memorial plaque on the building of the State Office for Mining and Geology at Inselstraße 26 has been commemorating the meritorious work of Max Grünebaum since June 28, 2007.
Grovermann & Hoppe cloth factory
The two entrepreneurs founded a cloth factory as early as 1880. In the village of Brunschwig , on the property of the timber merchant Carl Simon in what will later be Ewald-Haase-Straße 12/13, the entrepreneurs' new worsted yarn factory was built around 1883. A flat hall with five long shed roofs protruding into the depths of the property was built on the large area. A two-story main building was built to the side of the hall, and a small auxiliary building was built across the hall. The boiler house with the associated factory chimney was built on the Spree side. The two manufacturers had a large two-story villa built on their property in which they lived. The production of worsted yarn novelties in the company of Grovermann & Hoppe was already carried out using the modern power drives of steam and electricity on 106 mechanical looms with a workforce of approx. 300 workers. After the Second World War, the existing textile companies were reorganized. For example, in 1953 the Grovermann & Hoppe factory became the VEB Tuchfabrik Cottbus woolen factory. The factories of Jürss & Elger, Kerl and Polscher also went into the wool goods factory. With the dissolution of TUFA and Cottbuser Wolle after 1990, the old production facilities became apparent. Before 1989, the area with the buildings belonged to the training area of the Cottbus Textile Combine. The villa was used as a kindergarten for the children of the TKC employees. After reunification, the factory complex got new tenants through the trust. It was taken over in 1991 by an educational institution from Bottrop, Ruhrkohle AG Bildung GmbH, founded in the 1970s. In 2013, the newly founded Lausitzer Wirtschafts- und Gesundheitsakademie GmbH established itself with its different educational areas, at the same time a kindergarten for the children of the participants was set up and the entire area was revived. An investor wants to implement a construction project with modern multi-storey buildings on the park area belonging to the city. Current negotiations between the city and the investor leave a planned construction activity still open. A renovation and expansion of the privately owned factory owner's villa is not planned.
Brothers Robert and Albert Fritsch
The building at Münzstrasse 10, formerly Klosterstrasse 274 a / Kreuzgasse 2, has a special feature of the cloth factories built in the 19th century. In contrast to the factories built at that time, the building was still of the older type from the 1860s. The Fritsch brothers founded their cloth factory in 1882. At first, the business consisted of a weaving mill with a few looms in leased rooms. After buying our own property in 1885, the business was continued in its own premises. In the following years there was a constant further development of the company, so a spinning mill equipped according to the most modern principles was built on the site. With 56 mechanical looms and 4 hand looms, fabrics for women and men were produced. In the 1920s, they expanded production with a two-storey spinning hall, which was built on the adjacent property on Turnstrasse, now Jahnstrasse. In 1947/48 the Fritsch brothers' cloth factory was expropriated and incorporated into the Cottbus wool goods factory, from which the VEB Cottbus wool goods factory emerged in 1953. From 1937, the Fritsch brothers also produced in a branch in Großenhain . Originally this cloth factory was called Gebrüder Zschille AG. On June 30, 1946, this cloth factory was expropriated in a referendum and the Großenhain location was assigned as a branch of Administration 50, Confectionery Dresden. From 1948 the company belonged to the Großenhainer Tuchfabrik as Plant II and later became the VEB Vereinigte Großenhainer Tuchfabrik. The successor company Grotex took over the spinning hall, which was classified as not worth preserving. The factory building in Münzstrasse was placed under protection during the ongoing planning for the renovation. After several disputes with building supervision and monument protection, the owner withdrew his building application and sold the property. After years of vacancy, the former factory building was converted into a house for assisted living in 2010.
Adolph Eschenhagen cloth factory
In 1860 Adolph Eschenhagen founded his first cloth factory at Ostrower Damm 10 in Cottbus. In the first few years the company only produced Cottbus yarns and mottled silk suit fabrics. In later years, when worsted yarn production began, this article was also made in the cloth factory to produce suit and trouser fabrics. This commodity was sold well not only at home but also abroad. Around 1870, the four-story main building with a length of 30 axes was built on the connecting path between the village of Ostrow and the Mühlengraben. Only the head building of the production hall remains. In the late 1880s, a single-storey factory building was built along the north side of the building. A factory chimney has been preserved. After 1946 the building was used as a training facility by various companies. Even after 1990 training centers, training workshops and offices were rented there. The head building was used as a storage room. The building was renovated in 2007/08 and is now home to various companies including Cottbuser Service GmbH, engineering offices and others. Today the building of the former cloth factory is a listed building.
Carl Samuel Elias
The textile mill by Carl Samuel Elias with the factory buildings and two villas was built on the east side of the seawall between Ostrow Ostrow dock and island road. The factory buildings were located between the outlying villas and the associated gardens. Carl Samuel's father, Johann Samuel Elias, founded the Elias drapery dynasty as early as 1800. Son Carl, who was born in Cottbus on October 13, 1808, founded his own cloth factory on Mühlengraben in 1831, which made history. As early as 1838, a so-called steam plant was used in the factory on Mühlengraben. In 1842, CS Elias acquired another plot of land at Schloßkirchstrasse 1. The buildings on it were almost 50 years old and had already been a cloth factory with a wool store, wool spinning mill, weaving rooms, drying rooms and a material store, as well as residential buildings. The dye kettles were in an outbuilding in the yard. The main building was later converted into a residential building. When the Schloßkirchplatz quarter was redesigned between 1992 and 1994, only the front with the baroque entrance to the Schloßkirchpassage was preserved. In 1870 Carl Samuel applied for a building permit for another factory building on the west bank of the island trench. The factory that was established there was already in full operation in 1874, producing worsted yarns. Carl Samuel Elias died on March 6, 1887 and was buried in the north cemetery in Cottbus. His two sons Ernst and Hermann continued the business. Ernst Elias expanded his father's cloth factory on Ostrower Damm 1–3 and the factory on Mühleninsel. In 1870, a new building was also built on Ostrower Damm. In 1878 the Kommerzienrat Hermann Elias acquired the southern part of the mill island and had three multi-storey buildings with the associated outbuildings built on the site. One of the largest Cottbus cloth factories with the associated villa was built in today's Franz-Mehring-Straße 56, the area of the “Mühleninsel” nursing home. In 1902 the Eliaspark was created by a foundation he financed.
The cloth factory existed until the first years of the war, from 1942 to 1945 the Focke-Wulf -Werke Bremen produced aircraft parts in the factory. After the Second World War, cloth production was resumed under the company name VEB Wollwarenfabrik, later TUFA. For many years, the Elias family's factories were among the most important textile production facilities in Cottbus. They were testimony to the expanding development of the branch of industry into a main economic factor in the city of Cottbus after 1860. This family of cloth makers symbolized the rise and fall of the Cottbus cloth tradition.
The villas in particular, with their contrast to the simple industrial buildings, testify to the wealth and aspirations of their owners.
Ostrower Damm 1 (manufacturer's villa)
In the late Classicist villa on Ostrower Damm 1, the architect combined the historical repertoire of forms with elements influenced by Art Nouveau, such as plaster reliefs and masks. The villa was built in 1874 as a house for the widow Klingmüller. In 1899, after the death of the widow Klingmüller, Elias took over the villa as the director's residence. In addition, changes in the interior and on the facade were carried out by the construction company Hermann Pabel &. Co. made. During the GDR era, the villa was used as a day nursery until it was rebuilt in 1992 as a headquarters for various companies and medical practices.
Ostrower Damm 3 (manufacturer's villa)
The villa at Ostrower Damm 3 embodies the classic type of the neo-renaissance with its cubic basic forms, loosened up by risalites and the architectural decorations. The villa was built for the Elias family in 1885; it and the large ornamental garden surrounding the house were used by senior executives.
Factory building (Franz-Mehring-Straße 56)
The elongated production building is a four-storey red brick building with a flat, cardboard-covered gable roof. The street facade as well as the courtyard and side fronts are decorated sparingly. The strictly axially arranged, closely lined up segmental arched windows over belt cornices, which are designed as tooth-cut friezes, are striking.
Duch & Hamann cloth factory
The cloth factory built by the cloth manufacturer Elias at Wachsbleiche 1 was taken over by the newly founded cloth company Duch & Hamann in 1879. In 1954 it was assigned to Cottbuser Wolle as a semi-state cloth factory and dissolved at the end of 1955. Later it was continued as a small business, in the 1990s parts of the factory were demolished and released for residential development or for public, social and medical facilities.
The United Smyrna Carpet Factory
The foundation of the German carpet industry was laid in Silesia. In 1854 in Laehn and in 1857 in Schmiedeberg in the Giant Mountains, the Görlitz cloth factory Gevers & Schmidt set up the manufacture of hand-knotted carpets. Before that, the company had a certain number of weavers in the Orient learn the technique of knotting. Already in 1860 there were around 100 weavers working in the company and their products enjoyed a very good international reputation. Theodor Kühn from Cottbus was also involved in setting up the factory in Schmiedeberg. Around 1860 he set up his own business on Dresdener Strasse in Cottbus. In 1872 there was a big fire in the Kühn carpet factory, it broke out in the spinning room of the tenant Görges and completely destroyed the factory. The new building took place within a year on a new plot of land in Berlin's Chausseestrasse 34, now Berliner Strasse 15. This company was taken over in 1873 by the previous cloth manufacturer Oscar Prietsch, who employed up to 25 weavers. In 1897 Max Michaelis took over the management of the company. Up to 400 weavers were employed by the general upswing during this time. The factories in Schmiedeberg and Cottbus, as well as the carpet factories of Dehmann, Spoerer & Friedrichs from Hanover merged to form the "United Smyrna-Teppichfabriken AG Berlin". There were several takeovers and acquisitions such as the factories Erblich & Michels, Hannover-Linden. In 1910 the machines from the Roeder factory in Ansbach and in 1920 the property and building of the Paatz company from Schmiedeberg were acquired. In 1913 the Lindner factory was given up and the machines and chairs moved to the new building in Cottbus. Up until the 1920s and 30s, around 900 employees and workers were employed in carpet production in Cottbus and Schmiedeberg. Hand-knotted carpets, but also carpets with technical weaving techniques, were produced in Cottbus. These included Tournay carpets, made using a velor technique with different colored pile warps (a separate warp thread system that produces the actual pile wear layer when weaving pile fabric and is produced with a jacquard pattern using a velor machine weaving technique) and pile carpets. After the Second World War, the company, later also in Plant III of the Cottbus wool factory, produced approx. 50,000–65,000 m² of carpets annually until 1957. Then the relocation to Oelsnitz, Wurzen and Münchenberndorf took place.
GL Schmogrow Cottbus
Canvas weaving, impregnation plant, deck sewing and tent factory
The sailcloth weaving mill GL Schmogrow was founded in Cottbus in 1848 and it still exists today under a different company name as a textile manufacturing company in Hubertstraße24. In the large Cottbus textile industry, this company was regarded as a small subsidiary area that produced technical textiles. The weaving mill started with the production of all kinds of sailcloth for tents, wagon and wagon tarpaulins, for the army, navy, shipping and railroad needs. Sailcloths were also produced as a special feature for the most diverse technical purposes in industry in all widths up to 400 cm. The company was by far the largest manufacturer in Germany. The fabrics were waterproofed as tarpaulins and car cover fabrics by impregnation and processed into car and car ceilings in the sewing shop. For decades, the company was an important supplier at home and abroad. In 1937 the company was converted into an OHG. After the founding of the GDR in 1957, a company with state participation was established. Until the 1970s the company concentrated on weaving and finishing (heavy finishing), later in the 1980s it was only woven. In 1972 the forced nationalization to a state-owned enterprise took place under the direction of the VEB textile and finishing company Neugersdorf. The weaving performance was constantly 3 million m² / year until 1986 and from 1987 it was even 8 million m² / year. After the fall of the Wall, the company was transferred back and in 1990 it became "Technische Textil GmbH"; since 1994 it has been called "TEGE Planen & Zelte GmbH". The company has specialized in the production of technical textiles and heavy fabrics since 1991. In 1991 the foundation stone was laid for a modern, market-oriented company for the manufacture of technical textiles. Today's company employs 49 people with an average age of 38 years. The company processes 750,000 m² of tarpaulin per year. As a reliable partner for many well-known companies in the tent industry, the Cottbus quality products are increasingly being supplied to other European countries.
Cloth factory Ludwig and Wilhelm Polscher
Ludwig Polscher's cloth factory was founded as a small weaving mill in Cottbus in 1880 and has developed slowly but steadily. Later his son Wilhelm Polscher took over the factory. From the day his factory was founded, Ludwig Polscher upheld the principle of only producing quality goods and was one of the first German manufacturers to purchase Scottish yarns for the production of the best men's fabrics according to English taste, which at that time were only spun in Scotland as a specialty. However, when the mechanical equipment, especially in the spinning mills in Germany, was later improved and the overseas trade enabled direct wool imports from Australia and other countries, it was possible to manufacture these quality yarns in Germany as well. The good reputation of the company became more and more solid and the turnover increased accordingly from year to year. Due to the growing production, the various departments of the company had to be enlarged. The number of looms, spinning and twisting spindles, and auxiliary machines increased steadily. Originally the company was located in the rented premises of the Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft. Several years later, they moved into new, larger rooms in Parzellenstrasse 93, formerly Gebr. Krüger, until in 1889 the company acquired its own large site opposite the leasing company and had a modern factory built there.
But even these rooms were too small in the long run and so Wilhelm Polscher bought the factory site at Ostrower Damm 11 in 1910. This was equipped with completely electric individual drive devices based on the latest technology at the time. The entire power plant of the new factory, which was carried out by Siemens-Schuckert, comprised 100 electric motors with a total power of approx. 250 hp. With these individual drives, the most economical use of electrical power was guaranteed and downtimes of the entire system were completely excluded. Thanks to this system, the company was able to work in two or even three shifts without any downtime during the war and the transition period, thus meeting delivery obligations. Wilhelm Polscher, the only son of the founder of the cloth factory, joined the company in 1903 and was the sole owner of the business from 1916. Under his leadership, the complete transformation of the company began in 1904, using the experience and the most modern means. He always tried to purchase all modern facilities that contributed to increasing the efficiency and were necessary to improve the products and to always stay up to date from a technical point of view, because "standing still means going backwards". The First World War did not remain without influence on the development of the company. After a sudden shutdown of the company, because all orders were canceled, the production of military team cloths began immediately. In a short time the factory was completely busy again with army supplies. The difficulties involved in moving to a new, unknown area were quickly resolved by exerting all efforts and the materials supplied were characterized by their excellent durability and quality, so that they were fully recognized by the acceptance authorities.
Following the endeavors of the war economy, the decision was also made to start manufacturing paper fabric and, after various difficulties, it was possible to convert the entire paper yarn spinning and weaving operation from the finest hospital garbage to coarse-threaded canvas substitutes and burlap substitutes. Thanks to its efficiency and adaptability, the factory received such large orders that it had to work in double and triple shifts. The department heads received the war aid cross from the emperor. After the war and with the abolition of the forced economy for wool, the factory immediately started again with the production of peace products. Efforts were made to maintain the good old reputation as one of the leading companies in the production of modern English-style men's fabrics. In 1945 the cloth factory was partially destroyed. On September 9, 1946, the Polscher cloth factory was expropriated and turned into the "Vorwärts" cloth factory, in 1953 VEB Cloth Factory Cottbus (Plant III). Until the early 1960s, the Cottbus cloth factory used the rooms for the carded yarn spinning mill. From 1968 everything belonged to the Cottbus textile combine. After the fall of the Wall, the property had many different users. On May 15, 2013 the construction phase for 5 comfortable residential buildings on the site of the former cloth factory began with the groundbreaking ceremony.
Cloth manufacturer Georg Liersch
Wilhelm Liersch, Georg Liersch's father, was one of the first founders of the Cottbus cloth industry. As early as 1856 he was running the cloth making business. In the beginning, however, cloth making was only possible on hand looms. It was not until 1870 that mechanical chairs could be manufactured. The cloth factory developed well and was fully operational, that is, everything was done from carding to spinning to weaving. Medium and fine carded yarn qualities were produced, which were very popular with customers. In 1900 Georg Liersch was the sole owner of the cloth factory.
Georg Heinrich Liersch, the progenitor of the widespread family, was born on October 10, 1629 in Oschatz, during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which is why the exact date is not known. He died on May 24, 1709 at the age of 80 in Cottbus. He was a cloth maker and senior senior in this trade. His descendants were mainly cloth makers in Cottbus until the second half of the 19th century. Eight generations of the Liersch family dedicated themselves to the cloth trade and manufacture.
Said Georg Heinrich Liersch had settled in the former Klosterstr. 63 established as a cloth maker. In a major fire on the night of March 20-21, 1671, the house was destroyed and later rebuilt. In 1711 the house went to his youngest son, the cloth maker and garment tailor Georg Heinrich Liersch, (1686–1747).
Georg Liersch was born on July 5, 1666 in Cottbus and was the eldest son of the progenitor Georg Heinrich Liersch. Like his father, he was senior elder in the cloth-making trade. He owned the house in Klosterstrasse. 61 (then Tuchmachergasse). After the death of his first wife he married the widow of the cloth maker Christian Greifenhagen, Katharina geb. Peter. She brought the property at Berliner Str. 127, which was originally a brewery with 7 beers, into the marriage. The house and property, as well as the house at Kloster Str. 35, remained in the possession of the first Cottbus branch of the Liersch family for 200 years, with the exception of short transition periods, which were created through inheritance divisions. Georg Liersch died at the age of 68 on April 23, 1735. He had 10 children, of which the third son Johann Gottlob Liersch, née. continued the tribe on December 24, 1699. He was also a citizen and cloth maker and a member of the civil committee. Johann Gottlob married Eva Maria Cichorius, who was the daughter of a cloth merchant and cloth cutter. He died at the age of 65 on July 26, 1764.
Christian Friedrich Liersch, b. on February 14, 1736, was the 2nd son of JG Liersch. He was a master cloth maker in Cottbus and had an important cloth manufacturing business in the "Reformed Kirchgasse", today Schloßkirchstrasse 1. In 1793, with government help, he built a new house that still exists today. He died on January 13, 1805.
Christian Ludwig Liersch senior, b. on March 10, 1741, was the 3rd son of JG Liersch. He was the owner of the parent company at Berliner Str. 127, which was built in 1796 in the style of the time. He was also the founder of the cloth manufacturing and cloth trade business "Ludwig Liersch" later "Ludwig Liersch Sons". He was married twice and had 14 children. He died on July 31, 1809.
Christian Ludwig Liersch jun., B. The first born son was on August 29, 1768 and was given the same name as his father. He was a cloth maker and brewery owner. In 1815 he bought the property at Berliner Str. 132 (today the site of the sundial), where a brewery was built. He died on June 3, 1820. His widow continued to run the brewery. The house remained in Liers ownership until 1880. Of his 11 children, it is the 6 sons who write a piece of city history.
Karl-Ludwig Gustav Liersch, b. on July 23, 1800, died on April 9, 1886. He was a cloth manufacturer, city councilor, guild master of the riflemen, building deputy (deputy) of the guild. In 1827 he built a house at Dresdner Str. 164. This house remained in the possession of the Liersch family for 100 years. In 1925/26 it was sold to the “Märkische Volksstimme”.
Christian Ludwig Otto Liersch, b. on November 14, 1809, died on September 12, 1894. He was a citizen, cloth manufacturer, and for a time also city councilor in Cottbus. In 3 marriages he had 16 children. In 1862 he took over the house at Berliner Str. 132 from his mother, which he sold to the merchant Jacob Schlewinsky in 1880. Otto Wilhelm Liersch, b. on June 6, 1834, died on December 11, 1913, was a son of Christian Ludwig Otto Liersch. He was the founder of the cloth factory "Wilhelm Liersch". He married Florentine Elias, the daughter of the property owner at Schloßkirchstrasse. 1 and so comes into possession of the house. His sons Franz, b. on December 1, 1867, died on January 14, 1939 and Georg Liersch, b. on June 20, 1872, died on May 9, 1929 continued his cloth manufacture. Franz got out of the company. The factory continued under the name "Georg Liersch". His daughter Anna Liersch, b. on March 1, 1863, died in March 1936 marries the linen manufacturer Gustav Schmogrow, who runs his factory in Hubertstr. would have. This factory still exists today under the name TEGE Planen und Zelte GmbH Cottbus.
Ludwig Eduard Liersch, b. on October 1, 1810, died on April 3, 1858. He was a citizen, master draper and brewery owner, he was married to Charlotte Auguste Lobedan. Their only daughter Albertine, born on December 2, 1823, died on April 29, 1895, married the master cloth maker Friedrich Traugott Kayser. He owned the house in Schützenstrasse. 12/13 and he ran his cloth factory there. This house no longer exists today.
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Second Cottbus branch Georg Siegfried Liersch, b. on April 10, 1787 as the son of master cloth maker Christian Ludwig Liersch, is the progenitor of the 2nd Cottbus branch. He learned the trade of cloth merchant in Berlin. He returned to Cottbus and ran the business with his father until his death. He married Friederike Zesch. In 1816 he joined forces with his father-in-law for a company called "Samuel Gottfried Zesch und Sohn". He had also been elected city councilor, councilor, specifically for cash management. He died on April 3, 1870 at the age of 83 and was buried in the hereditary funeral of his in-laws on Roßstrasse.
Georg Adolf Liersch, b. on July 21, 1817, died on May 18, 1883. In 1866 he took over the cloth factory, Markgrafenmühle 2, which he had acquired in 1851, from his father, and continued this important cloth and buckskin factory. He was also the owner of the property at Königsplatz 3, which his father inherited in 1839. In 1883 G. Adolf bequeathed the factory to his sons Hermann Theodor, b. on July 29, 1846, died on December 10, 1910 and Franz Oskar, born. on September 23, 1847, died on April 14, 1902. They called the company "Gebrüder Liersch". They also inherited the house at Königsplatz 3. In 1892 Franz Oskar Liersch sold this house to the chemist Erich Bevermann. He also left the joint company and became the owner of a business for cloth agencies, which his son continued to run after his death. Theodor continued to run the Markgrafenmühle 2 cloth factory alone. After his death, the daughters of his sister Helene Liersch, married Mannsdorf, tried to continue running the cloth factory, but they did not succeed, they had to sell in 1914.
literature
- Sources: Städtebau Cottbus von Boldt 1923, Märkischer Bote from April 20, 2013
- Siegfried Kohlschmidt: Cottbus - as it used to be , Wartburg-Verlag, Guldensberg-Gleichen 1992, ISBN 3-925277-74-9 .
- Irmgard Ackermann: Monuments in Brandenburg. City of Cottbus. Volume 2.1 , Werner-Verlag, Worms am Rhein 2001, ISBN 3-88462-176-9 .
- Günter Bayerl (Ed.): Technical-historical walks in Cottbus and the country between Elster, Spree and Neisse , Niederlausitz-Edition, Cottbus 1995, ISBN 3-89325-402-1 .
- The development of the Cottbus cloth industry , Regia Verlag, Cottbus 2012.
- Ingrid Halbach and Joachim Schulz (eds.): Architectural guide Cottbus. Hike through town and surroundings. Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1993.
- Anke Meckelburg: "The Cottbus cloth factories along the Spree". Master thesis 2003.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lindener trade and industry from 1880-1899 : Alfred Christian Erblich founded his carpet factory in 1880. From 1885 the businessman Eduard Michels became co-owner of the factory and it was now called "Lindener Smyrna Teppichfabrik AG Erblich & Michels". The company specialized in the manufacture of carpets and related items.
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