The Persil Clock

In 1987, for the 80th anniversary of Persil's brand, Henkel began offering this watch to cities in places where it was previously demonstrably a "Persiluhr" to give the "White Lady" the chance to bring Persil's old marketing back to the fore , So z. B. in Flensburg, Hamm / Westf and Lünen a Persiluhr set up. In Lünen at that time even the bus stop in the center was renamed to "Lünen, Persiluhr"; there is also a hotel called "An der Persil-Uhr"

Until its destruction in 1942, the Persiluhr was a popular meeting place in Lünen. It was reorganized in 1983.

The "slim Mathilde" in Lünen.

In the area of the fork in Münsterstrasse /
Cappenberger Strasse, a square-like one
Plant, one is used as an advertising medium
te pillar with clock system. She is many old
and younger Lünern a term because they are a
popular meeting point was and is: the “Persil
clock".
When the city of Lünen in 1928 the
Street lighting from gas to electric
Electricity switched, it should be on one
Traffic island through the existing gas lantern
a modern arc lamp can be replaced.
The Arcus Normaluhrensäulen Vertriebsge
sellschaft mbH in Berlin Charlottenburg
took the opportunity to present a “Nor
painting clocks advertising column “as a carrier for the
Lamp set up with a four-sided
Clock system was provided and during the
Darkness shone.