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Eight years after moving from Jebenhausen to Göppingen, Jakob B. Gutmann founded the company J.B.Gutmann as a sole proprietorship in 1868. When the eldest son Bernhard J. Gutmann joined as a partner in 1872, it became a partnership. After the departure of company founder Jakob B. Gutmann in 1877 and the entry of two other sons, Leopold J. Gutmann and Max J. Gutmann, the company name changed to " Gebrüder Gutmann ". In 1899, it became the joint stock company "Mechanische Buntweberei am Stadtbach" with Bernhard J. Gutmann as its chairman.

In 1893, Milton Rohrbacher founded the Milton Rohrbacher Chemical Factory. From 1922 son Siegfried Rohrbacher is a partner of the company. The company's product range also includes "Kinessa-Bohnerwachs" and "Kinessa-Holzbalsa".The company boycott as well as social exclusion cause Siegfried Rohrbacher and his wife Gertrud, née Lendt to sell the company in 1936 and emigrate to Palestine together with their 3-year-old daughter Miriam and 10-month-old son Michael. The founder of the company, Milton Rohrbacher, dies in 1937 and is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Göppingen.

Hermann Moos had founded a shirt factory in 1840, which he later expanded into a jersey factory in times of modernization. His son Friedrich joined the company. From 1900 there were branches in Weingarten and Schussenried. The owners at that time were Hermann Moos with partners Alfred, Richard and Franz Moos. In 1922 the company expanded again and in 1923 the tricot weaving, shirt and blouse factory became the Trikotwarenfabrik Hermann Moos AG. In 1938, this company also became a victim of the "Aryanization" during the Nazi era.

The corset drill weaving mill was founded in 1867 as a hand weaving and cottage industry. In 1870, 100 craftsmen were already employed in villages in the area. Awarded a Silver Medal of Merit at the Vienna World's Fair in 1873 and a Bronze Medal of Merit in Stuttgart in 1881, the manufactures gained national and international recognition. In 1912 Julius Reinganum sold the business to Wilhelm Feller in Stuttgart.

The old factory building on Hospitalstraße is currently empty (as of 2018). It has belonged to the city of Lippstadt for a long time. The hall is to be converted in the next few years into a depot for the city museum.