Finow Brass Factory

The brass factory in the Eberswald district of Finow was founded in 1698 and operated until 1945. It was the first industrial-commercial center of the March of Brandenburg. The founding date is considered to be July 1, 1700, when production began under administrator Friedrich Luck. In 1702, the dairy was leased by Friedrich Müller, then by the Frenchmen Aureillon, Dittlof and Lejeune.
In 1729, Splittgerber & Daum leased the brass factory for 55 years.
In 1786, the Royal Office of Mines and Metallurgy in Berlin took over the administration.
In 1863, the industrialist Gustav Hirsch bought the factory for 100,000 Prussian thalers. Very concerned about the well-being of his workers, which was anything but usual at the time, he considerably expanded the park of the brass factory. Sheet metal, wire, boilers, and tubes were produced, as well as ammunition casings, detonators, and grenades as part of extensive armaments orders. In 1872, 200 employees were employed. In 1899, his nephew Aron Hirsch took over the company and founded the company Hirsch Kupfer- und Messingwerke AG in 1906. In 1907, 950 workers were employed, in 1918 already 2390.In 1917 the construction of the new factory began, inaugurated in 1920 by Siegmund Hirsch.

In 1931/1932, eight model houses with copper sheet facades, the so-called copper houses, were built at the foot of the water tower, which were designed to be quickly assembled and transported efficiently. These houses are still used as residential buildings today.

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