29 - "East Pole"

The Stollberg machine factory relocated its expanding operations here in 1878. In the years that followed, it continued to expand the factory on the garden areas of three small residential buildings: Factory buildings, carpentry and machine workshops, the boiler and machine house and a drawing office were built. Initially, machines for felt production and hat making were manufactured, but later the company was successful with paint rubbing, mixing and gluing machines for a wide variety of purposes. Nothing remained of the factory buildings and the boiler house after the war. When Stollberg gave up the site in the 1950s, the large-scale printing works Gerstung, which had been bombed out in Luisenstrasse, moved to the site in 1954. The commercial prints, calendars and "Rudolphine prints" produced by Rudolf Gerstung since 1900 in collaboration with artists and the Klingspor company in a contemporary-modern form were particularly famous. In the 1960s, modern factory and commercial buildings were erected on the site to provide more space for the expanding offset printing company. In 1990/91, the Gerstung company went bankrupt. Today, the Ostpol start-up campus with offices, studios, event and conference rooms and the Offenbach Music School are housed on the site.