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JR56

December 12, 2021

The entrance building of the Voss margarine factory is the remaining part of a margarine factory built in Hamburg from 1910 and is now part of the headquarters of the Techniker Krankenkasse.

In 1904 Hinrich Voss founded a margarine factory in Hamburg's Humboldtstrasse and built a branch in 1909/1910 on Bramfelder Strasse in Barmbek.

The entrance building from 1910 consisted of a rectangular building in the factory style of the Hanover School of Architecture with a stepped gable and Wilhelminian style elements. A clock tower adorned with a stone cow's head rose in the center of the entrance.

The writing "Hinrich Voss" is located above the main portal. The ornaments of the extension are made by the Hamburg sculptor Richard Kuöhl, who presumably also designed the clock face.

The more visible parts of the facade of the original building from 1910 remained unchanged, only the tower was adapted to the style of the new part of the building.

Margarine-Voss ran into economic difficulties in the 1970s. In 1976 the company merged with the Bavarian Margarine Works from Munich and the Holsteinische Margarinewerke Wagner & Co to form "Elite Margarine und Feinkost GmbH".

In 1978 production had to be stopped. The company was known for the Margarine Voss art pictures that were added to the product and stuck into scrapbooks.

On August 11, 1981, the entrance building was added to the list of Hamburg's cultural monuments.

The actual factory was demolished in 1984, and the foundation stone for the newly built headquarters of the Techniker Krankenkasse was on September 17, 1986.

From 1989 to 2006 the old entrance building housed the Hamburg Architecture Archive.

The former entrance building of the margarine factory and the administration building behind are now connected via a skyway at the level of the upper floor.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eingangsgeb%C3%A4ude_der_Margarinefabrik_Voss

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CravyC

July 16, 2019

Who likes to geocached should take this cache. The current rating of 6,000 FP is absolutely justified

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Nic

August 16, 2019

As a Geochacher you should definitely open the app here. It is worth it ..

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Entrance Building of the Margarine Factory Voss

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