LVR-Industriemuseum Textile Factory Cromford

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24 Cromforder Allee
Ratingen, North Rhine-westphalia 40878
Situated directly on the river Anger and embedded in an old English landscape park is one of the oldest preserved industrial plants in Germany: the Cromford cotton spinning mill in Ratingen. Founded in 1783/84 by the Wuppertal businessman and entrepreneur Johann Gottfried Brügelmann, it is today considered the first fully mechanical cotton spinning mill on the European continent. The early industrial plant from the late 18th century has been almost completely preserved: the five-story "Hohe Fabrik" and the late baroque Cromford Manor - today both buildings of the LVR Industrial Museum, the "Alte Fabrik", the simple workers' apartments, the office and the wheelhouse, which once housed the water wheel.

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Amazing welcome and detailed demonstration of cotton production
9/8/2022

A very interesting experience. The lady put a lot of effort into explaining the whole process of how...

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Don't miss this museum!
6/15/2019

This is a wonderful museum that vividly shows the processing of cotton. It is advisable to take part...

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