Werhahnmühle

The Werhahnmühle is a complex of offices, restaurants and a museum located in Duisburg's Inner Harbour It occupies the former silo and mill buildings of the Rheinische Mühlenwerke Werhahn. It is part of the Duisburg: Town and Harbour section of the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail.

The Rheinische mill works were commenced with abuilding erected by Jacob Cohen in 1896. After his death in 1919 his sons William Cohen and Hugo Cohen , inherited the mill. With the rise to power of the Nazis the business was conficscated from the Jewish Cohen family on 3 January 1936, and taken over by the brothers Hermann and Wilhelm Werhahn Neuss. The company changed its name to Rheinische Mühlenwerke Werhahn. The Cohen family managed to emigrate to South America and survive the holocaust.

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