No Milk Today - The Dairy Company (Part 4)

During the 1930s, the son of the owner, who had learned the trade in Mecklenburg, imported the "Siberian Butter" and introduced it to this part of Germany. It was the ideal fat for bakeries and pastry shops.
The founder died in 1941, and both his sons were drafted for the war in 1939 and 1943.
After the war, the sons ran the business, but the mother was firmly in control until 1968, when she turned 80.
In 1952, almost the entire dairy company was torn down and rebuilt.
During the 1970s and later years, the company's downfall began with the death of small corner shops, which lead to a collapse of the profits of the dairy wholsale business.
The company itself was too small to keep up with the ever-expanding market of large businesses, supermarkets and discount stores.
In 2004, the company filed for bankruptcy and production stopped in 2005.
There are plans to build apartments or a supermarket on the premises, but no final decision has been made.

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No Milk Today - The Dairy Company (Part 3)

As I've mentioned in my first post about this dairy company, it was originally founded in 1909 as a wholesale store for milk and butter.
After World War I, at the height of the inflation in 1922, the owner purchased an old paint factory that had been built in 1915, and cooperated with a trucking company that had exclusive rights to collect milk in the surrounding areas, which he brought to the "new" factory.
In the beginning, business was improvised in the old rooms of the paint factory, and in 1932, the factory was modernized for the first time.
The company got a new name and a new boiler house with a big quadrangular chimney.

In the next post, I will continue telling the story, but for now, I'll leave you with the next load of pictures.

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No Milk Today - The Dairy Company (Part 2)

My brother-in-law told us about this location.
He is a native to the city this location is in, and when we met him, he contacted a friend to find out if it was still accessible.
We actually had another spot on our list, but that one was more of a nice-to-have, nothing spectacular, if at all accessible, it would be empty rooms - but secret-service-stuff, so actually kinda cool.
But the dairy company promised more of a photographic adventure, so we went for that option and drove there the next day.
The weather was perfect - an only partly cloudy sky, afternoon sun - made for some really cool shots.

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No Milk Today - The Dairy Company

In the tradition of posting the HDR photos first, here are the first pictures from the 6th location of our tour of the heart of Germany.
The origins of the company go as far back as 1909 when a wholesale business for butter, cheese and fats was opened at an entirely different location in the same region.
The photos you are about to see were taken in the "new" location originally built 1922, but modernized later in the 20th century.
More about the history of the dairy company in the following posts, here are the pictures!

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