The familiar sounding name Klingerka is derived from  
the name of the textile factory founder Heinrich Klinger.  Klinger, a native of Bratislava, was the son of a Jewish antiquarian and began his career at the Viennese company “Jozef und Markus Weiss”, where he worked for ten years. After gaining enough experience, he decided to establish his own canvas shop in 1858 in Vienna. The shop did well, because several years later, in 1866, he was able to build a weaving mill in Svitavy. Two more subsidiaries followed - in the Leopoldstadt district of Vienna and in Budapest. Then Klingerka was founded in 1888.

Klingerka was a textile mill processing burlap. It produced wall fabrics, leatherette, waterproof sacks and waxed canvas. The factory ran its own dyeing mill and a shed in which materials were impregnated and polished. In 1897, Klingerka also started producing also sailcloth, military equipment, leather products, tent cloths, hoses, impregnated tarpaulins and various technical cloths for shoemakers and textile producers.  The production quality was excellent – it won awards and prizes at many exhibitions.

The factory did very well – at one point, it had 1,000 workers. It didn't apply to Klingerka only – there were other factories in Bratislava that employed thousands of workers. That meant a huge need for accessible housing. Besides the municipality, the factory owners also participated in finding 
a solution for the housing issue, and so numerous housing estates for workers started springing up around all the factories, and Klingerka was no exception – an estate for workers was built there in 1894. It consisted of three 3-floor apartment blocks and several family houses that created an enclosed complex with green yards.

After 1939, the factory never re-opened. However, people still lived at the housing estate. Although the life there was a simple and modest one and some of the buildings had no electricity, the tenants had good relations with their neighbors and were used to helping each other. People were nice in general, they were not jealous or envious, and were ready to share the little that they had. The mutual trust was such that people didn’t even lock their doors. The old houses were demolished in the 1980’s, and since then, the Klingerka remained abandoned and empty. The area declined and fell into disrepair.