Praha 6-Bubeneč, Papírenská 114/5, CZE

1892

The cotton spinning mill, street no. 114, was designed by Carl Arnold Séquin-Bronner in March 1892 for Ernst Mauthner (1844–1923), the head of a mechanical weaving mill in nearby Mlýnská street no. 60 since 1878. The plans were implemented during the same year by a local builder Jan Kindl (1841–1902). The shed housing 40 mules with a capacity of 17,100 spindles on a surface of 65 × 56 metres was covered by 9 × 6 sections of a moderate gradient cement-wood roof (span: 6.4 × 6.8 metres) with saddle skylights. Given the steep terrain it had basements in three bays along the street, with ceilings formed by concrete vaults on joists (span: 3.4 metres). It contained a separate scutching room, with a mixing room and a blow room in the storey above where cotton bales were transported by a pulley right from a railway siding stretching along the railway; a separate boiler house was supplied using the same system, originally with a curved roof made of corrugated sheet. A sprinkler tower was built as an additional storey above the existing staircase in 1905. Textile production ceased as soon as 1934. Since 1957 prosthetic and orthopaedic devices have been manufactured there but today the buildings are mostly rented for warehousing purposes.