Zacherl built his factory in Vienna like a mosque as a reference to the place where the resources for his production came from. The chrysanthemum from Tiflis.
Johann Evangelist Zacherl was born in Munich in 1814 and died in Vienna in 1888. He produced the famous insect repellent Zacherlin. For the production of the repellent he errected a mosque in Unterdöbling in the street Nußwaldgasse. The coloured ceramic tiles and the oriental architecture place this building among the brightest industrial buildings of Vienna. Architect was Hugo Wiedenfeld a specialist for this architectural style.
More factories in a mosque? The cigarettes’ factory in Dresden, text in German but interesting pictures.
Even more unusual mosques? A mosque not as a factory but as cover for a pump house errected by Friedrich Willem IV. in Potsdam. The reason was he didn’t want to look on a pump house from his castle terrace.
