During the air raids on the 1st and 3rd of March 1945, the East Town, the
industrial part of Ulm, was especially hit. 80% of the site of the Wieland AG
was destroyed.
After the move of the Wieland AG to Donautal on the outskirts of Ulm in
1982-83, an appealing residential park came to being on the former site of the
factory. The city Social Services and Youth Office and the town Building
Authority reside now in the administration building restored in 1945. The
remnants of the old Spitalmühle stood until the 1945. The canal of the river
Blau was filled in and moved to the South. The only reminder of the original
course of the Blau and the mill is a stylised, flat-lying mill wheel in the
plaster of the inner, respectively northern, Schwambacher Street.
Trade, energy, technology and transport have always played an important role
on this square and have played it until the 80s.
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