Germany - Berlin - Berlin U-Bahn Station

Kreuzberg History on Postcards.

Schlesisches Tor 

Master Carpenter Carl Ahrens had this pretty apartment building with a factory building behind it built in 1890. His daughter sold it to the flourishing F.W. Müller children's sewing machine factory. Until the First World War, this company employed 600 workers on 6,000 square metres (!) of commercial space and exported to all continents. During the First World War, the company switched to machine guns. After the war, children's sewing machines were produced again, but the best times were over.

Sent by Marc-André from Berlin, Germany.