{"id":7591,"date":"2016-08-30T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/futurelab-aachen.de\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T12:34:46","slug":"the-hissing-fafnir-and-other-cars-from-aachen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurelab-aachen.de\/en\/the-hissing-fafnir-and-other-cars-from-aachen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hissing Fafnir and other cars from Aachen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fafnir, Modell 472, 1919, Foto: \u00a9 FEV GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\nA German automotive city? For most people, Wolfsburg or R\u00fcsselsheim would be the first places that come to mind. But what few people realise is that Aachen was and still is an important location for the automotive industry. The upcoming exhibition “From the Hissing Fafnir to the Car of the Future \u2013 The History of Aachen’s Automotive Industry” in the Centre Charlemagne is going to remedy this deficit.<\/h4>\n

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Fafnir, Cudell and Mannesmann-MULAG \u2013 at the beginning of the 20th century, Aachen was home to several automotive manufacturers, famous brands that were even exported all over the world. But following the infamous Black Friday of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression around the world, automotive manufacturing disappeared again from Aachen’s economic landscape. The factories in Aachen, which were still hand-building cars, were simply too small to compete with the major, mass-producing brands. <\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Aachen continued to be an important location for automotive research. The “Polytechnic School” founded here in 1870 \u2013 at that time one of its kind in Rhineland and in Westphalia \u2013 focused know-how in the art of engineering right here in Aachen.
\nThe oil crisis, traffic calming measures \u2013 also aspects of Aachen’s automotive history
\nFrom the very start, the car began to change the city. City planners had to cope with a constantly increasing number of vehicles. New, wider roads were right at the top of the city planning agenda after the Second World War. All the way through to the 1970s, the automobile dominated planners’ interests. Trams were forced into extinction by the trend towards individual transport; people on foot were forced underground into pedestrian subways to ensure that the did not interrupt the free flow of traffic. It was only after the oil crisis of 1973 that a change of mindset slowly began to gain momentum, a process that continues to this day. In the meantime, pedestrian precincts have been established, traffic calming measures introduced, and demands have grown for a traffic-free inner city and for the reintroduction of trams \u2013 all clear indications of how our attitude to automobile traffic has changed.
\n 
\nNew drive technologies, new materials \u2013 research never stops<\/strong>
\nToday, more than ever before, automobiles and traffic are a focus of research at Aachen’s universities. New drive technologies, new materials, energy storage systems, lightweight car bodies, traffic control systems and mobility concepts \u2013 research is going on across the whole bandwidth of automotive and traffic control engineering. And something that is really typical for Aachen’s universities: research findings are often tested and developed into new products right here. A good example: the electric vehicle StreetScooter \u2013 which in the meantime has been taken over by the Deutsche Post \u2013 was originally developed at the RWTH and is now being mass produced in the former Talbot factory on J\u00fclicher Stra\u00dfe. Collaboration between the university and municipal institutions takes many and varied forms. In numerous pilot projects over the years, new traffic technologies have been put through real-world testing here, like the first parking guidance system, or the conversion to LED traffic lights. And Aachen is world-famous for its pioneering role in the field of electromobility.
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\nFormula One racing circuits – made in Aachen<\/strong>
\nOne of the greatest symptoms of a general passion for automobiles was local enthusiasm for motor sport. The first international motor race from Paris to Berlin in 1901 had a stopover in Aachen. In 1948 and 1949, the city staged its own races around the Ronheider Berg, and the soapbox derby was immensely popular in Aachen throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Today, Aachen maintains its involvement in motor sport primarily through the planning and construction of Formula One racing circuits.<\/p>\n

The exhibition explores the automobile as an important factor in the city’s history over the last 120 years. Along with historic Aachen-made vehicles of the brand Fafnir, old company documents, advertising materials and photos bring to life those exciting early years of automotive society. And models and media displays illustrate what engineers imagine the car of the future will be like.
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Exhibition hosted by Future Lab Aachen 2016:
\nCentre Charlemagne \u2013 Neues Stadtmuseum Aachen<\/strong>
\nFrom the Hissing Fafnir to the Car of the Future \u2013 The History of Aachen’s Automotive Industry<\/strong>
\n11 September 2016 \u2013 19 February 2017<\/strong>
\nKatschhof 1 \u2013 between the Cathedral and the Town Hall
\n52062 Aachen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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