Qualla: Clouth Gummiwerke https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/clouth-gummiwerke-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Clouth Gummiwerke https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke Clouth Gummiwerke: Introduction https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke/ Photo credit Photographer does not like to be named but is known to uploader. Dr. Schorsch (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC), CC0. Begin with the unlikely catalog. The first transatlantic submarine telegraph cable from Germany to New York, laid in 1900. The gas envelope of the first Zeppelin airship, LZ1, delivered in July of the same year. Diving suits for the Imperial Navy, balloon silk, suspenders, milk-bottle teats, conveyor belts that fed the Aachen coal mines, tires for the bicycle boom that built Cologne's first racetrack, and a rubber-cushioned tram bearing called the Cologne Egg that now lies under 30,000 meters of track in its home city and many more elsewhere. All of it came from one rubber works in the Cologne district of Nippes, founded in 1862 by an entrepreneur named Franz Clouth and finally demolished in 2013 to make way for an apartment quarter. For 143 years, if it was rubber and it was hard to make, there was a chance Clouth had made it.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/clouth-gummiwerke-wp/u1hc-clouth-gummiwerke-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Clouth Gummiwerke: The Founder and the Address https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke/ Photo credit Photographer does not like to be named but is known to uploader. Dr. Schorsch (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC), CC0. On 10 September 1862, Franz Clouth opened a commission business in technical rubber goods at Sternengasse 3 in central Cologne - the same building his family lived in. For six years the business shared the family home. By 1868 demand had outgrown the parlor, and Clouth moved the ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/clouth-gummiwerke-wp/u1hc-clouth-gummiwerke-cables-across-the-atlantic.mp3 0:06 3 full Clouth Gummiwerke: Count Zeppelin Comes to Nippes https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke/ Photo credit Photographer does not like to be named but is known to uploader. Dr. Schorsch (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC), CC0. In 1898, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin paid a visit to Cologne-Nippes with a peculiar order: eighteen large drum-shaped gas cells, to be fitted inside the rigid framework of his first airship, LZ1. Clouth also developed and supplied the rubberized silk that would form the outer en...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/clouth-gummiwerke-wp/u1hc-clouth-gummiwerke-count-zeppelin-comes-to-nippes.mp3 0:06 4 full Clouth Gummiwerke: Air Raids, Recovery, and the Cologne Egg https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke/ Photo credit Photographer does not like to be named but is known to uploader. Dr. Schorsch (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC), CC0. The Nazi years turned the works almost entirely to war production, and the Allies returned the favor. Targeted air raids on 13-14 March 1942 destroyed roughly 70 percent of the plant. On 15 October 1944 a renewed raid took out 90 percent of what remained. American troops occupied...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/c/clouth-gummiwerke-wp/u1hc-clouth-gummiwerke-air-raids-recovery-and-the-cologne-egg.mp3 0:06 5 full Clouth Gummiwerke: The Quarter That Replaced the Works https://qualla.com/clouth-gummiwerke/ Photo credit Photographer does not like to be named but is known to uploader. Dr. Schorsch (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC), CC0. Continental AG had quietly built up its stake through the 1980s and took 98.29 percent of Clouth shares in 1990, with the Federal Cartel Office's blessing. The end came in waves: rubberized fabric production ended on 31 March 1992, the company merged into Continental's ContiTech ...

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