Textile companies in Larochette

Type of production: Spinning and dyeing of knitting wool

Brief company biography

The spinning mill produced knitting wool. In 1876, Nicolas Ludovicy II, later mayor of Larochette, expanded the company to include a wool laundry and dye works. In 1889, it employed eight workers. The company was dissolved in 1914 and the building was converted into a factory for brushes, brooms and brushwood. (380)

Address: Osterbour, rue de Medernach, Larochette

Type of production: Woolen goods

Brief company biography

The industrialist Jean Sinner bought the Weidermühlen around 1820. In 1856, he built a spinning mill and cloth factory next to the mill. However, the Sinner-Even factory went bankrupt in 1875 and was auctioned off. The Ginter family became the new owners of the buildings and set up their clothing factory here. (312)

Address: 17, Rue de Medernach

Type of production: Cotton fabrics and workwear

Flagship product: Workwear

Brief company biography

Around 1920, Edgard Delmarque acquired the Büchler-Reuland brush and broom factory and set up a cotton weaving and clothing factory in its production rooms. The factory had 16 sewing machines and a cutting machine. Around 1929, Delmarque bought the empty buildings of the Tréfila wire-drawing factory (rue Scheerbach - then Vestimenta SA) and converted them into a factory for workwear.

Address: Millenstrasse behind a row of houses from the Bleech. The buildings are no longer standing.

Type of production: Fabrics and work clothing

Flagship product: Uniform fabrics for state authorities

Brief company biography

Jean-Pierre Ginter bought the factory (Manufacture Royale Grand-Ducale de Draps & Nouveautés, founded in 1856) from Jean and Charles Knaff and founded the drapery factory ‘Draperies de Larochette s.à.r.l.’ in the same year 1906. During the two world wars, it was part of the German war economy. The company experienced its heyday in the post-war years with the production of uniform fabrics for Luxembourg state authorities such as the army, the postal service and the national railway company. The abolition of military service in 1967 and the opening of Luxembourg to foreign competition led to the decline of the company. It ceased trading for good in 1970. Today, the buildings house flats. The old canal and the chimney are further evidence of the site's industrial past.

Address: in the Scheerbach, in the Fels

Type of production: Spinning mill and blue dye works

Flagship product: blue linen and cotton cloths, luxury linen

Brief company biography

Leib Isaac Bonne founded the largest dye works in the Grand Duchy around 1848. In 1864, the company expanded and began exporting not only to the German market, but also to Belgium. The company’s two Luxembourg production sites (in Larochette and Muhlbach) reached their peak between 1865 and 1875. At that time, each of them employed between 25 and 30 workers. In 1889, the company was bought out, but it was able to continue production in Larochette until 1914. The buildings no longer stand.

Adress: Rue Scheerbach

Type of production: Trousers and workwear

Flagship product: Vestimenta trousers

Brief company biography

In 1935, Hermann Margulius and Eric Lewandowski took over the former Edgard-Delmarque workwear factory and founded the Vestimenta company. In 1940, the two Jewish businessmen had to leave Luxembourg and their factory was plundered by the Nazis. After the end of the war, Margulius and Lewandowski rebuilt it. Due to the high demand for trousers, they enlarged the factory in 1952 and bought new machinery. The factory, which employed up to 120 people, was the largest in Larochette. It flourished until 1962. Pressure from major international groups and low-cost competition then forced it to close its doors in 1984.

Adress: 7, Rue Scheerbach  Larochette

Type of production: Clothing manufacture

Flagship product: Trousers and workwear-Jeans trousers

Brief company biography

In 1874, J.-P. Ginter bought the Sinner-Even (Stee) spinning mill and converted it into a factory for workwear.
As early as 1889, around one hundred workers were employed here. Until the 1950s, the factory benefited from orders from the steel industry (ARBED) and the public sector, until it had to cease operations in 1985 due to the opening up of the Luxembourg and later the European market.
The municipality of Fels bought the buildings. It had the historic part of the factory restored and transformed it into a cultural centre (‘An der Kleederfabrek’), which was opened on 7 May 1988. To this day, theatre performances, meetings, concerts and public balls are organised there.

Adress: 19, Rue de Medernach