Wiemer & Trachten

Wiemer & Trachte was a construction company with headquarters in Dortmund that had been in existence for almost 100 years and had an administrative building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf that is now a listed building.

Former administration building of Wiemer & Trachte at Hohenzollerndamm 29

history

The company was founded in 1909 by Fritz Wiemer and August Trachte in Dortmund.

60 percent of the company went to Köster GmbH in Osnabrück and 40 percent to Bugsan Holding from Saudi Arabia . It employed 1,100 people.

On April 3, 2007, the owners filed for bankruptcy, on December 29, 2007 the construction business of Wiemer & Trachte was discontinued and the company, including real estate and equipment, has been wound up since then.

buildings

Wiemer & Trachte was significantly involved in the execution of the following construction projects:

• City Theater Duisburg (1912)
• Coal washing of the Nordstern colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst (1912; canceled)
• Sparkasse Dortmund (1921-1924)
• Fermentation and storage cellar (first high-rise building in Dortmund) of the Dortmund Union Brewery (1926–1927)
• Rudolph Karstadt AG department store in Berlin (1928)
• Althoff department store in Recklinghausen (1929–1930)
• Marienhospital in Hamm (1930)
• Deutschlandhalle in Berlin (1935; canceled 2011)
• own administration building in Berlin (1936)
• Reception hall at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin (1938)
• new Westfalenhalle in Dortmund (1952)
• Higher Regional Court Hamm (1955)
• Karstadt department store in Dresden (1995)
• ISS Dome in Düsseldorf (2006)
• Monkey house in the Frankfurt / Main Zoo (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Köster subsidiary files for bankruptcy . noz.de from April 4, 2007, accessed on July 6, 2007.
2. ^ The bankruptcies of 2007 . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 29, 2007.
3. ↑ Administrative building in Wilmersdorf