Miners' settlement in Puchberg

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Northwestern block of flats of the former mining settlement

The mining settlement Puchberg is a former miners settlement in Puchberg am Schneeberg in Lower Austria .

The settlement was built in 1922 by the architect Henry G. Jaeger for the Grünbach coal mine when the mine had its highest level of 1450 workers. It consists of four barrack-like workers' houses in solid wood construction, each with six apartments, which have largely been preserved in their original form today, but are in some cases left to decay (as of 2018). Only the farm building with a laundry room, toilets and an oven was no longer needed with the installation of the sanitary facilities and was demolished.

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Coordinates: 47 ° 47 '30.1 "  N , 15 ° 54' 53.9"  E