Mixed chairware factory "A. Gotthelf & Cie

Abraham Gotthelf founded the company ""A. Gotthelf & Cie" in 1861. The "mixed chairware factory" was located at what is now Kapuzinerstrasse 1. The company name suggests that Gotthelf had a partner who is no longer known today. It was a manual operation and it is not certain that all the manual looms (weaving looms operated by hand, not by machine) were together in the factory building. Nevertheless, the business must have flourished very well, because Abraham Gotthelf was at the top of all tax-paying Jews in Gladbach in the years 1869-1873. As early as 1868, Gotthelf had granted his Handlungs-Commis Benedikt Cahn procuration for his company. Between 1875 and 1878, Gotthelf gave up his business in Gladbach and retired to Cologne.