Industrial Heritage Schöneweide – The Transformer Works Oberschöneweide (TRO)

The AEG Transformer Works, engl. version

Autorin: Susanne Reumschüssel

Publisher: Industriesalon Schöneweide e.V.,published 2020, 58 pages, pocket size, numerous illustrations

The TRO stands for Oberschöneweide as part of the “Berlin Electropolis” – synonymous with the advance of electrification, which changed both the economy and everyday life worldwide. Commissioned by AEG, leading architects created modern industrial buildings where transformers and components for power plants were manufactured. To this day, the listed buildings on the Spree bear witness to the great innovative power of the historic start-up center.
The brochure takes you through the history of the Oberschöneweide transformer factory, which moved into the halls of the Niles-Werke in 1921. Within a few years, it became the leading company in the field of large-scale transformer construction. Up to 70 percent of the total German production of transformers and high-voltage switches was produced at TRO…