History

Ludwig Loewe Engine factory
Berlin (Mitte) - Tiergarten, Wiebestraße 42-45

The factories founded by Ludwig Loewe and lsidor Loewe at different locations in Berlin received toward the end of the century their most important location in Moabit. This included the Loewe GmbH (engine factory), which was build 1896, as well as the Ludwig Loewe & CO. (mill and drill press factory), which had been finished 1917 by Alfred Grenander. In the future different pavilion-like production and administration buildings from brick as well as green belts were developed on both areas. The entire plant is considered as a forerunner of today's industrial architecture. The in 1897/98 established mechanical-engineering-hall by Arnold Vogt in the Wiebestrasse was a three-part building from brick with wide glazing. In 1905 it was extended toward the north. The southern front wall was destroyed in world war 2 and afterwards again rebuild. It was used later as storage hall and training place of the christian “youth village work”. They tore it off 1994. It reminds a board with the text: "the machinery building was a last witness of the former model company. It had the rank of an architectural monument and 1994 in favor of the now finished building cleared away." At the end of the hall are three protected trees for memorial reasons.

 

Loewe, Ludwig
* 27.11.1837 Heiligenstadt/Eichsfeld, † 11.09.1886 Berlin, Industry Entrepreneur

He founded a Woolware - commission business 1858 in Berlin. In 1869 he created the Ludwig Loewe & CO Limited partnership at Luisenstaedter Hollmannstrasse 32 on shares for the production of sewing machines, made of which the machine tool factory, which 1898 moved into the Huttenstrasse 17-20 (Ludwig Loewe engine factory) and 1896 the German weapon- and ammunition factory AG, Augusta Street 14-24 came out. L was member of the Berliner Stadtverordnetenversammlung and since 1877 member of the Preußischen Abgeordnetenhauses and since 1878 member of the Deutschen Reichstages. He was buried at the cemetery of the Jewish municipality to Berlin (Prenzlauer Berg).

Grenander, Alfred Frederik Elias
* 26.06.1863 Sköfde (Schweden), † 14.07.1931 Berlin, Architect

G. studied architecture in Stockholm and at the TH Charlottenburg from 1885 to 1888. Subsequently, he worked at Alfred Messel and since 1890 in Paul Wallots (1841-1912) Reichstagsbauatelier. Starting from 1896 independently, he led the company Spalding & Grenander until 1903 with its brother-in-law petrol Spalding (1863-1945). Besides it taught starting from 1901 as a professor at the united state schools for free and applied art (Charlottenburg) and from 1897 to 1931 also at the teaching institute of the museum of arts and crafts (Martin Gropius building, cross mountain). G. was active from 1900 to 1931 particularly for the citizens of Berlin high and subway company, for which he established numerous stations and other buildings for the high and the underground, so the subway stations Alexanderplatz, Bernauer Straße, Französische Straße, Friedrichstraße, Gesundbrunnen, Hausvogteiplatz, Heinrich-Heine- Straße, Jannowitzbrücke, Klosterstraße, Kurfürstenstraße, Märkisches Museum, Mohrenstraße, Potsdamer Platz, Reinickendorfer Straße, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Rosenthaler Platz, Seestraße, Schillingstraße, Schwartzkopfstraße, Spittelmarkt, Stadtmitte, Voltastraße, Weinmeisterstraße und Zinnowitzer Straße, the subway transformer station Bastianstrasse as well as the Hochbahnbrücke in the Dennewitzstraße (1930). Besides G arranged. over, 1910/11 the Gotzkowskybridge renewed and finished 1928 the Komische Oper and 1930/31 the Kaisergalerie 1917 the milling and drill press factory the Ludwig Loewe engine factory. He built the BVG administration building Dircksenstrasse/Buelowstrasse used by that Federal Constitutional Court for 1929/30 (today Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße Nr. 2-4 ). A memorialboard in the Subway station Klosterstraße also reminds of G..