Werhahnmühle
The Werhahnmühle in Duisburg Inner Harbour is an office, museum and restaurant complex in the former silo and mill buildings Rheinische mill Herm. & Wilh. Werhahn OHG.
History
1896 Jacob Cohen built the first mill building and thus founded the Cohen mill, later called Rheinische mill works. After his death in 1919 his sons took over William Cohen (former Chairman of the Commerce and Industry Chamber of Duisburg- Wesel ) and Hugo Cohen ( Judge at the Landgericht Duisburg) the mill and they built after a fire in 1924 and again on. For purposes of financing the construction, the cousins Herrmann and Wilhelm Werhahn from Neuss already in 1924 involved with 25 % of this operation. 1935, the company was transformed into an open investment company. On January 3, 1936, the co-partner Werhahn acquired 100% of the operation, the company name is transformed into Rhineland mill Herm. & Wilh. Werhahn OHG. The Jewish family Cohen was able to emigrate to South America, they could as the period of National Socialism survive.
In 1969, the mill itself was shut down and merged it to the mill Küppers & Werner KG in Duisburg - Homberg. In the old store but camped until 1994, the state grain reserves. The demolition could be prevented by a citizens' initiative. The Masterplan by Foster Partners for the inner harbor provided for the preservation of the old industrial, storage and logistics building.
2001 to 2002 the entire building complex ( approx. 27,000 m³ of enclosed space ) of the construction company Franz Brüggemann on behalf of GEBAG rebuilt for 3.3 million euros to exhibition space, office, dining rooms and offices. The now a listed building buildings were to either gutted down to the exterior walls and load-bearing structures and rebuilt inside or completely demolished and rebuilt in the old form again. Partial building became a combined ensemble (western store flour transport, property, slides), in part, the outer facade was a large area with a remote front window broken ( west facade in silo ).
Building complex
The complex is situated on both sides of the storage canal right on the inner harbor. The buildings include 60 years harbor and architectural history.
1896 the eastern storage was built by the brothers Cohen, 1899, the Western Ostwald & Levy. The simple brick buildings have a gable roof and are internally expanded with wooden uprights or with cast iron supports. The grain stored in sacks or loose in chutes.
The actual mill is located even further west and was rebuilt after the fire of the first building in 1924 in reinforced concrete skeleton construction. The regular wide ranking of the outer facade results from the inside erected batteries of Walzenmahlstühlen.
1934, the boiler house and the chimney were added, in 1938 the workshop.
1938, a new silo was built of concrete with brick cladding between the mill and the old memory. He could hold a maximum of 12,000 tonnes of grain.
In 1959 the Western memory as the last new building a seven- storey extension consisting of flour storage and transport systems for blind slides.
Current usage
The larger the storage building, now known as Business office in'n harbor, offers approximately 12,500 sqm of premium office space. The restaurants in the ground floor and the old bag warehouse use outdoor terraces at the storage canal and promenade area to port, including a pontoon anchored there. In the former mill Atlantis Children's Museum was housed in the beginning, since April 2008 there was approximately 3,500 square meters of exhibition space Legoland Discovery Centre Duisburg. Operator was Joseph Kuhr and In'n port GbR.
In the spring of 2007 Australian Fund acquired the building complex, and used but not rented it.
On December 12, 2011 auctioned allroute air travel Werhahnmühle at the foreclosure sale at the Local Court of Duisburg for 17 million euros. According to the valuation report about 11,500 m³ rental spaces were worth on the 3,748 sqm plot 17.1 million euros, plus two parking spaces were a total of approximately 300 parking spaces. Allroute already uses an office building on the other side of the inner harbor and want to use both itself and also rent out to other interested parties the mill. Since May 2013, the Children's Museum Explorado continues the Atlantis tradition.