Ferd rusk factory. Stemler

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Ferd rusk factory. Stemler
legal form Open trading company
founding 1788
resolution 1967
Seat Friedrichsdorf
Branch Production of rusks and other foods

The Ferd rusk factory. Stemler is a company founded in Friedrichsdorf in 1788. The purpose of the company was the production of rusks and other foods. Food production ceased in 1975; Since then, the Stemler company has managed the property on Wilhelmstrasse in Friedrichsdorf, where parts of the historic factory are still located today. The larger of the preserved factory buildings as well as the neighboring factory owner's villa are under monument protection. Today the listed Villa Garnier also belongs to the area, but it was not connected to the rusk factory.

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Friedrichsdorf was so well known for the production of rusks that the city was nicknamed the city ​​of rusks . According to the company chronicle, Ferdinand Stemler's rusks factory is the oldest in Friedrichsdorf. The founder of the company was the baker Christoph Stemler, who took over his brother Reinhold Stemler's bakery in Friedrichsdorf in 1788. Before that he had lived in the Netherlands and on Dutch warships and got to know fine rusks there. He began to successfully produce rusks in Friedrichsdorf. The new product seems to have found a good reception in Friedrichsdorf. Christoph Stemler died in 1831 and his son Friedrich took over the successful bakery. In 1859 he handed the bakery over to his two sons Ferdinand and August. Under their management (after the death of August 1884 Ferdinand was the sole owner), the handcrafted products were sold throughout the region, especially in Frankfurt am Main and the growing spa towns of Homburg and Nauheim .

In 1891 Louis August Achard, the son of a sister of the childless Ferdinand, became the manager . He converted the craft business into a rusks factory. In 1897 production was relocated from the small bakery in the center of Friedrichsdorf to a modern factory building on the outskirts. On the 14,000 m² site on Wilhelmstrasse, he built a villa for himself and his wife Christine Emilie nee next to the company building made of red brook stone. Stemmler.

At the same time he stopped the production of all other baked goods and was now exclusively a manufacturer of rusks. On 26 June 1909, the company was as a general partnership under the company Ferd. Stemler entered in the commercial register at the local court of Homburg vd Höhe .

The production range was later expanded again. In the Weimar Republic , besides rusks, baked goods such as gingerbread, pretzels and biscuits were also industrially produced.

Building of the Ferd rusk factory. Stemler

Louis August Achard remained managing director until his death in 1943, supported by his brother Clement, who was responsible for the commercial area. Afterwards his widow Alice Achard, née Rousselet, became sole owner and director. She died in 1967 and with that society went extinct. Ernst Alfred Rousselet continued to run the company for a few years in the legal form of a retail company before transferring his business to the newly founded company Pauly-Ferd. Stemler & Co. GmbH KG leased. The company's documents are deposited in the Hessian economic archive.

Factory building

The factory building is a four-storey building with a gable roof . At the eaves , there is a dormer with striking Walmnase. The gable side bears the large Stemler Zwieback lettering . The factory building is made of bricks, which are made of different earths and thus allow the cornices, the Gothic step frieze on the eaves and gables and the pseudo-decorative window frames to contrast with the unplastered red of the walls.

Villa Stemler

Villa Stemler

The Villa Stemler was built in 1896 as a family home in the neo-baroque style according to plans by the Kirdorf building contractor H. Braun . The show facade faces the garden and is arranged on four axes with a central risalit . The central risalit is crowned by a frontispiece , the top of which forms a half-shell.

literature

  • 175 years of Stemler. Friedrichsdorf 1963.
  • Angelika Baeumerth: 300 years Friedrichsdorf 1687–1987. From the history of the Huguenot city in the Taunus. Friedrichsdorf 1987.
  • Eva Rowedder: Hochtaunuskreis . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (=  monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hessen ). Konrad Theiss Verlag, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8062-2905-9 , pp. 93 .

Web links

Commons : Ferd rusk factory. Stemler  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hessisches Wirtschaftsarchiv Abt. 103, Friedrichsdorfer rusks factory Ferd. Stemler
  2. ↑ Description of the holdings at the Hessian Economic Archives, last accessed on March 1, 2017