Fagus Factory
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Fagus Factory is an early 20th-century German industrial building designed by Walter Gropius that is celebrated as a pioneering work of modernist architecture.
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Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
World Heritage Site
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factory building → industrial building → modernist architecture work → |
| architect |
Adolf Meyer
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Walter Gropius → |
| architecturalStyle |
early modern architecture
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modernism → |
| associatedWith |
Bauhaus movement
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Walter Gropius’s early career → |
| category |
20th-century architecture in Germany
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industrial heritage → |
| client |
Fagus Factory
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surface form: "Fagus-Schuhfabrik"
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| completionDate | 1913 → |
| constructionPeriod | 1911–1913 → |
| country | Germany → |
| currentUse |
industrial production
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museum → visitor center → |
| function | shoe last factory → |
| hasPart |
administration building
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coal bunkers → drying house → gatehouse → office wing → pattern warehouse → power plant → production halls → shipping department → warehouse → wood storage building → |
| heritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site → |
| heritageProtectionStatus | protected monument in Germany → |
| industry | shoe last manufacturing → |
| influenced | Bauhaus architecture → |
| locatedIn |
Alfeld
→
Alfeld →
surface form: "Alfeld an der Leine"
Lower Saxony → |
| materialUsed |
brick
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glass → steel → |
| namedAfter |
Fagus Factory
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surface form: "Fagus company"
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| notableFeature |
absence of historicist ornament
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corner windows without visible supports → flat roof volumes → glass curtain walls → horizontal emphasis of façade → large continuous window bands → steel frame structure → |
| owner |
Fagus Factory
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surface form: "Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG"
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| significance |
early example of functionalist design
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pioneering work of modernist industrial architecture → |
| startDate | 1911 → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(ii)
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(iv) → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear | 2011 → |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteName |
Fagus Factory
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surface form: "Fagus Factory in Alfeld"
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Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Fagus Factory in Alfeld"
subject surface form: "Fagus Factory in Alfeld"
this entity surface form: "Fagus shoe last factory"
this entity surface form: "Fagus-Schuhfabrik"
this entity surface form: "Fagus company"
this entity surface form: "Fagus-GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG"
subject surface form: "Fagus Factory in Alfeld"
this entity surface form: "Fagus‑GreCon Greten GmbH & Co. KG"