Overview
Pothof Clog Factory operated on Polstraat, then number 64, during the 1930s and 1940s. The factory is mentioned repeatedly in advertisements and newspaper reports.
In 1931, the firm Pothof & Co., a mechanised clog-making business, was listed at Stationsstraat 96a in Aalten. In 1934 this address was renumbered as Stationsstraat 32a. The partners named were Christoffel Pothof (Meppel, 07-06-1896) and Jan Dost (Onstwedde, 09-12-1901).
A year later, De Graafschapbode reported that Mr Elsinghorst, a stove manufacturer from Bocholt, had rented the former cake and rusk factory of the Wijers firm, “with the intention of also manufacturing stoves in Aalten. A small part of these buildings, in which a clog factory is established, will continue in that use.”
In 1948, De Graafschapper wrote about Pothof’s clog factory: “Mr Leezer formerly had his slaughterhouse here, after which it was sold to the firm Gebr. Wijers, who converted it into a rusk factory. Later still it passed to the Pothof firm, which promoted it to the status of a clog factory. During the war years it was requisitioned by the German Treppmann, and now the machines of the Pothof firm are running there again.”
In 1951, H. Martin, co-director of the Tricot factory in Winterswijk, started a babywear knitting mill here.
Address history
This site — formerly Polstraat 62 and Polstraat 64, later Koopmanstraat 77 — is now occupied by housing. Brederostraat was laid out across the site, and homes were also built along Koopmanstraat.
Several businesses occupied the site during the 20th century:
Joseph Leeser slaughterhouse (1916) → E.J. Wijers Rusk Factory (from 1919) → Pothof Clog Factory (1930s–1940s) → Martin/Agave (1951–2000).
Owners
This overview is not complete.
| Year | Plot | Owner | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | I-4089 | Joseph Leeser, butcher & merchant | 3,118 m² export slaughterhouse & yard |
| 1918 | I-5754 | Joseph Leeser, butcher & merchant | 10,548 m² export slaughterhouse, stables & grassland |
| 1921 | I-5754 | N.V. “Wijers’ Beschuit- en Koekfabriek” | 10,548 m² factory & grassland |
| 1933 | I-6428 | N.V. “Wijers’ Beschuit- en Koekfabriek” | 10,640 m² factory & grassland |
| 1942 | I-6428 | Gerhard Trepmann, manufacturer | 10,640 m² house, shed, factory & grassland |
| 1952 | I-6428 | N.V. “H. Martin” | 10,640 m² house, shed, factory & grassland |
| 1962 | I-8728 I-8729 | N.V. “H. Martin” N.V. “Aaltense Garenveredeling Agave” | 7,020 m² factory, yard, house, office 3,620 m² factory, yard |
| 1978 1977 | I-8728 I-9207 | Gerrit Johan Kramp, director of a private limited company Garenveredeling Aalten B.V. | 7,020 m² factory, yard, house, office 3,475 m² factory, yard |
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