A journey back in time part 2

I have some kind of a personal relationship to that factory because my daddy used to work there. And during summer holiday breaks from school i also sometimes worked there to earn some cash for the holidays. The house complex i was sent to was quite obviously not newly built but it must have somehow belonged to the factory before. I could not find out what it has been before. I was overwhelmed by such a melancholy because i can not ask my daddy about it, anymore. He could have told me what it was. I am sure. He would also be so interested in in the change-over of the buildings and the whole former factory area. Such are the moments where i really miss my beloved daddy tremendously.My daddy had told me about that factory several times, what it had been like when he learned his trade there. I was listening to these stories from another time with great interest. I wish i could hear them again and ask specific question but alas ...So here come my research results with all the flaws and missing links:

A journey back in time ~ part 1

The other day a job obligation brought me to some address here in my hometown and that instigated a journey back in time. And it instigated some research on my part which actually wasn't as successful as i would wish but here are the results.

The address to which i was sent has a very lovely sound to it. It is called Am Pralinenhaus which would translate into At the Chocolate House. The word "chocolate" here relates to the tempting candy in a box of chocolates like this.

The reason for this kind of a "sweet" address is that there had been a chocolate factory on that area before. More about that later though. 

As i said it instigated a journey back in time and it turned out that this was not a journey following a straight line but it started to sidetrack and meander. 

There are different aspects to this story, as diverse as historical, architectural and personal aspects and i would like to address them all. It turned out a difficult task to really structure that story and so it is now for days on end that i try to write that blog. I wanted it to be a whole but the more i tried the more it slipped away from me. My research brought me more and more details and info which i wanted to use and it became a big mess. As recent as yesterday i was still determined to write it all in one blog entry. I thought giving it subheaders would provide the much needed structure. As of today i have to discard that idea. It is not really working. 

If i don't divide it into several parts i will never come to a result. 

So i made the decision to split it into several parts. And this here is .. of course .. part one. 

1. The situation today