Wolfswinkel specialized in Deckle-edge paper- a rough-cut form that became a status symbol once industrial processes rendered it obsolete. The plant is said to have manufactured a good many of the banknotes and letters of credit that fuelled the Reich's expansion, 1874-1945.
At its peak in 1897, Wolfswinkel employed over 200 workers. With brief interruptions, it made paper through the Seven Years War, World War I, and World War II. It was also left unmolested by Soviet metallophiles following World War II. Two years after privatization in 1992, the plant shuttered.
Wolfswinkel's watertower- built when the mill expanded in1928- today casts a hollow gaze over the Finow canal. But it can boast a big tent constituency that includes Graffiti artists from Berlin, land developers, and dog walkers on a neighbouring footpath.
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