Description
At the beginning of the 19th century, the property belonged to the Böhm and Marchand forwarding and long-distance trading company. Their large warehouse was briefly converted into a temporary sacred space in 1845, where Offenbach's German Catholic congregation was founded in a solemn service. In the second half of the century, the Kopp clothing factory and later the Strauß portfolio manufacturer were based there. .
The hall was demolished in 1905. The metal goods company Ludwig Haege had new production facilities built there. The classicist residential building remained standing at the time. The plans for the factory building with large factory halls and the free-standing boiler house with machine hall in the middle were drawn up by architect Philipp Forster together with the Frankfurter Betonbau-Gesellschaft.
The two-tone clinker brick façade conceals a reinforced concrete structure. The Haege company had been operating as a metal spinning company since 1876 and supplied Offenbach's leather goods companies with accessories such as drinking cups, cans and small parts. Thermos flasks were added in 1908 and ammunition was manufactured during the First World War. The company was shut down after the Great Depression. In 1939, the company Mako-Apparatebau took over the premises, which also housed a number of leather goods manufacturers. After the war, Mako was a vending machine and mechanical engineering company that mainly manufactured ticket inspection machines for the railroads. Today, the building houses offices and a kindergarten.
Metallwarenfabrik Haege
Frankfurter Straße 74
63067 Offenbach