Deutz Gas Engine Factory

The original factory grounds lie in the south of Mülheim between Auenweg and Deutz-Mülheimer Straße near the Mülheim harbour, with the main façade running along Deutz-Mülheimer Straße. Around 1880 the land east of the street was also developed; around 1890 a hall complex for small-engine construction was built there, later followed by the halls for large-engine construction with the striking rounded north gable that bore the company name.

Of the original buildings from the 1860s and 1870s, probably nothing survives above ground after the redevelopment from 1890 onwards; part may have been incorporated into the administration building erected from 1890 in the northern area. On the closed south side of a rear wing, the masonry still shows the large letters G.F.D. for Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz. The elaborate roof and gable landscape was likely lost in the Second World War or during the subsequent reconstruction.

Today the block along Deutz-Mülheimer Straße, owned by a property developer, is used as „raum13/Deutzer Zentralwerk der Schönen Künste“ and is opened to the public on various occasions, including the Day of the Open Monument. As part of an urban-design ideas competition held by the City of Cologne, the site together with the Mülheim harbour was newly planned by two teams of architects and landscape planners. The heritage-listed buildings – the Möhring Pavilion and the block along Deutz-Mülheimer Straße including the old administration building – are to be integrated and repurposed.