Cloth mill Offermann

The Tuchmacherhof Offermann is a former Kupferhof in the district of Upper Stolberg Stolberg ( Rhineland) in the Aachen region and is considered an important witness of industrial transformation of the city's history.

History of the building

The building was built in the 18th century as Kupferhof and was located in a central location within Stolberg between the copper courts eagle pharmacy, Bausch Mountain, Schart, Knautzenhof and numerous smaller copper courtyards.

With declining global economic importance of Stolberg brass industry also this Kupferhof lost its role as a production facility. There was an economic reorientation of Stolberg. Alternatives to the dominant role of the metal industry had to be developed. Johann Paul Offermann, a draper from Imgenbroich, acquired the building in 1760 and set up a manufacturing facility for fine fabrics. It was thus in direct competition with the neighboring cloth factory crown. The Tuchmacherhof Offermann flourished about 60 years before even the cloth -making trade from Stolberg migrated.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the front building was sold and set up a catering company, other parts of the building were about to expire. Mid-1980s, there was a complete renovation of the building complex.

The individual buildings of the former draper Court Offermann are now used as a residential building. The courtyard of the building complex was named after the former owner of the farm.

Architecture

The late Baroque farm consists of three separate buildings and is made out of the ordinary in the region of the degraded material quarried stone quarries around blue stone. A garden wing of the house is oriented to the adjacent Vichtbach. The complex features an extensive forecourt and a bridge that connects related buildings on both sides of the creek.