On the Konrad-Adenauer-Platz opposite the new building of the Agricultural Chamber Rhineland stands the present 'Stadthaus' with several offices of the town administration. It was designed by Professor Eiermann as administration building for the Vereinigte Seidenwebereien AG after the Second World War.

image author: Kurt Zich

This society emerged from the merger of long-established Krefeld family businesses, which operated silk weaving mills independently in the past. The United Silk Weaving Mill count as one of the most important businesses of this kind in Europe. The company management is accommodated in a building at the Girmesgath at present, which is seen as an important architectural-historic monument; it was constructed as 'office and storage house' by the famous architect Mies van der Rohe in 1933, who just created with that a model for contemporary industry-architecture.