Two famous icons of world industrial architecture in Germany: The Fagus Factory at the City of Alfeld which is a small town that once belonged to the Hanseatic League, on the River Leine, 60 km south of Hanover. Its most celebrated building is the Fagus shoe last factory, designed for Carl Benscheidt (1858-1947) by Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in collaboration with Adolf Meyer (1881-1929), and built between 1911 and 1924. In the main building, that incorporates drying chambers, the production plant, the offices and the despatch department, pillars of pale yellow brick alternate with curtain walls which extend from near the ground to the roof. The warehouse is a separate building which also accommodates the boiler plant. The factory is universally acknowledged to be one of the key buildings of the International Modern movement in architecture. And it the first time the so-called not-supported-edge was introduced, an item used since than in many modern buildings. Good reasons why these building are listed as UNESCO-World-Heritage. fagus-werk youtu.be/sATzthYrklk Europe’s most celebrated soft toys, the teddy bears with buttons in their ears (named aftter Teddy Theodor Roosevelt) are manufactured in an architecturally revolutionary factory building in this small town 32 km north-east of Ulm. The construction in 1903 of an iron and glass building, 30 m long, 12 m wide and 9.4 m high, with an outer shell consisting of a continuous double-glazed wall, which we call the Iron-Curtain-Wall, This is may be the first building where this feature was introduced, still part of the most modern buildings. The iron castings and forgings were provided by the not very well known Eisenwerke Munchen. The building was subsequently extended. Margarete Steiff (1847-1909), a native of Giengen was partially-paralysed at the age of 18 months, but from a dressmaking studio in her father’s house established a company making felt toys, moving in 1888 to a building designed by her brother. Her nephew Richard Steiff was largely responsible for the company subsequent growth. The Steiff company has a factory shop and an interactive museum on the premises, and other aspects of the history of Giengen are illustrated in the nearby municipal museum which includes a general store of 1904, and brushmakers’ and clock-face makers’ workshops. giengen.de/de/Freizeit+Tourismus/Sehen+Staunen/Steiff-Museum https://youtube/watch?v=sE353foLTlI
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