Tannery - Leather factory - S. Heymann

The tanner Salomon Heymann from Essen-Steele moved to Dülmen in 1838 to the then Lohmühle. He acquired two plots of land at the corner of Brokweg and Borkenerstraße and built a residential and factory building on them. Around 1840 the tanning business was started. After the death of the founder Salomon Heymann in 1874, the business was passed on to his son Hermann (Chaim ) Heymann. At the turn of the century, there was an operational reorientation of the company. The handicraft business (leather factory) became a trading company with leather goods. Hermann Heymann died in 1910. After the enterprise 1914 and 1918 by 2 fire disasters was afflicted the widow Bertha Heymann 1918 / 1919 set the enterprise.