Category: Berlin typefoundry buildings
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On the trail of Berlin’s typefoundries
Several factory buildings from the time of industrial type-production are still preserved. These typefoundries and their products shaped the national printing industry during the 19th and 20th centuries. They continue to influence designs made by the international typography community today. On July 24, 2021, as part of the project Die Sichtbarmachung des Sichtbaren – Berlins…
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Berlin locations of the old Ferd. Theinhardt foundry
When Theinhardt purchased this house at Linienstraße 144 in 1860, he added a new building behind it. Then his typefoundry operated here for almost thirty years. After he sold the business off, his successors never changed the foundry’s name. It always retained the “Ferd. Theinhardt” name. In 1849, Ferdinand Theinhardt (1820–1906) became an independent punchcutter and…
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The Berlin locations of the Eduard Haenel and Wilhelm Gronau typefoundries (1838–1918)
Northwest entrance to the Heinrich Lassen Park in Berlin-Schöneberg. There used to be buildings here. Between 1896 and 1918, one of them – at Belziger Straße 61 – housed the Gronau typefoundry. The printing-office and typefounding facilities Eduard Haenel established in the 1840s were about two-and-a-half kilometers to the north of here. Today, almost nothing remains…
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The Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei and VEB Typoart
The image above reproduces two views of the building that housed the Norddeutsche Schriftgießerei from 1926/1927 to 1960/1961. The illustration on the left appeared in Die Handsatzletter (issue 8, 1975, p. 6). I took the photograph on the right in 2018. This post is a 2,400-word look into another Berlin typefoundry building that has survived into the…
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The Emil Gursch typefoundry’s 1901–1918 building
The image above is a rendering of the Emil Gursch typefoundry’s factory building at Gneisenaustraße 27 in Berlin, as it would have appeared in 1917. Reproduced from Das Haus Berthold, p. 77. This article is the second in a series of posts looking at the remains of various Berlin typefoundry factory buildings. Although I mention…
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The 1869–1978 headquarters of Berthold today
The illustration above shows appearance of the H. Berthold AG factory in Berlin in 1909. Parts of that factory still stand today in the Mehringhof, a series of structures located behind the street-facing buildings at the intersection of Mehringdamm and Gneisenaustraße. The part of Berlin where this factory was located has been known as Kreuzberg since…
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