Nordwolle

The building and the factory housing is listed as a Denkmalschutz The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

The family business expanded into a major concern producing a quarter of all the world's rough yarn and employed almost 4,500 workers in the complex.

Under his son, Carl Lahusen,[2] and his English born wife Armine Matthias,[a] the factory town provided cooperative stores, canteens and baths, a hospital,[3] a kindergarten and a library.

A year later the Municipal Museum open in the “Lichtstation”, the first engine room of the disused textile works.

[1] The museum shows the production processes[4] involved in worsted spinning and the social conditions of the young immigrant workers.