Nordwolle
The Nordwolle or more correctly the Nordwolle museum or the Nordwestdeutsche Museum für IndustrieKultur is situated in and around the engine house of the former Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei in Delmenhorst. Nordwolle was a dominant company that processed wool and worsted: it closed between 1981 and 1984. The building and the factory housing is listed as a Denkmalschutz The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage. [1]
History
In 1884 Christian Lahusen, [2] a textile manufacturer from Bremen set up the Norddeutsche Wollkämmerei & Kammgarnspinnerei (North German Wool Combing and Worsted Spinning Mill) next to the railway line in Delmenhorst, which brought wool from Bremen docks. The family business expanded into a major concern producing a quarter of all the world's rough yarn and employed almost 4,500 workers in the complex. Labour came from Eastern Europe. Between 1885 and 1905 the population of Delmenhorst tripled causing a chronic lack of housing. The firm responded by building ever more company housing on the “Nordwolle” site.
Under his son, Carl Lahusen[2] and his English born wife Armine Matthias[lower-alpha 1] , the factory town provided cooperative stores, canteens and baths, a hospital[3] , a kindergarten and a library. The world slump and mismanagement bankrupted Lahusen's firm in 1931: though it continued in a smaller scale until 1981. [1]
Museum
The Nordwolle Factory Museum opened in 1996 in the turbine hall and adjacent sheds. A year later the Municipal Museum open in the “Lichtstation”, the first engine room of the disused textile works. [1]
Collections
The museum shows the production processes[3] involved in worsted spinning and the social conditions of the young immigrant workers. [1]
See also
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References
- Notes
- ↑ Armine Matthias was the daughter of a pastor who had lived in English mill towns and experienced patriarchal housing such as provided at the Houldsworth Model Village
- Footnotes
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External links
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- Nordwolle Website
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- Fotostrecke des Weser-Kurier zum Museum
- Familie Lahusen
- Arbeitskreis Fabrikmuseum
- Nordwolle Delmenhorst Kulturportal Nordwest
- Spiegel magazine: "Der Untergang der Norddeutschen Wollkämmerei und Kammgarnspinnerei 1931 bis 1933" The bankruptcy
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