The basement building was made of reinforced concrete with brick stairs. After the planning of Jean Schmidt, contractor Robert Schneider built a four-story building in 1911. Only a few years later, Leitz again demanded the construction of a tall building. The mansard's floor expanded as production and workers also increased. On either side of the central building there was a hip roof with high ceilings.

The fourth floor is visually separated from the lower part of the building by a very distant cornice. Narrow wall patterns and lightly embedded parapets summarize the three lowest floors. The four-story building is divided into six groups of windows, each of which has three windows.

However, in the same year, it was decided to use the new construction of concrete skeletons and a simpler façade design. The first plans of the architect Jean Schmidt in 1907 show a brick building on a stone base, which was covered by a sloping roof and a slate roof. The oldest part of this row of tall buildings is now hidden by a new building at the Schützenstraße. In the first years, residential buildings and workshops on the Laufdorfer Weg were still sufficient.Īt the turn of the century, the production of optical devices expanded so much that it originated the first skyscrapers in the city of Wetzlar. The Wetzlar factory was located on the opposite side of the administrative building of 1957 and formed a special urban architecture it is upstream from the slope of Kalsmunt and forms a structurally attractive graduation from the skyscrapers to the ruins of Kalsmunt Castle.Īlready in the last decades of the 19th century, Ernst Leitz and its production facilities had moved to the slopes of Kalsmunt.

17.1 L-Mount Alliance with Sigma and Panasonicįrom the year 1907 to the 1950s, the buildings that formed Leica factory were built on Ernst Leitz Street in Wetzlar, and remained until 1986, when the factory was moved to the city of Solms.

14.1 Digilux-series digital system cameras.

12 Q-series large-sensor compact cameras.

11 S-series reflex (digital medium format).

10.2 TL- and CL-series (APS-C sensor with matched lenses).

10 L-mount mirrorless (dual-scale sensors and lenses).

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