List of architectural monuments in Völklingen

In the list of architectural monuments in Völklingen , all architectural monuments of the Saarland city of Völklingen are listed according to their districts. The basis is the publication of the state monuments list in the Saarland official gazette of December 22, 2004 and the current sub-monuments list of the Mittelstadt Völklingen in the version of August 9, 2017.

Fenne

location	designation	description	image
Saarbrücker Straße / Am Holzplatz location	Ensemble of Fürstenhausen station	Built in 1906/07 station was in the heyday of the mining industry one of the major stops of Rossel Valley Railway , as the line from Saarbrücken through the Saartal here to Rosseltal branched off. After the line was closed for passenger traffic in 1976, the station was sold. Due to the heavy freight traffic, the station had its own shunting locomotive early on. In addition to the station building, three railway houses for the employees of the station were also built. The large reception building also had its own extension for a large waiting room.
		Saarbrücker Straße 116, station reception building, 1906/07 (individual monument)
		Saarbrücker Straße 118, railway house, 1907 (part of the ensemble)
		Saarbrücker Straße 120, railway house, 1907 (part of the ensemble)
		Saarbrücker Straße 122/124, railway workers' house, 1908 (part of the ensemble)
		Am Holzplatz, water tower of Fürstenhausen train station, 1907 (individual monument)
Hausenstrasse / Leostrasse location	Ensemble Glasmachersiedlung	The former glassmaker's settlement consists of double houses on Hausenstrasse and single houses on Leostrasse, all of which were built between 1904 and 1908 according to plans by Richard Schmidt.
		Hausenstraße 48a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 49/51, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 50a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 52a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 53/55, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 54a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 56a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 57/59, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 58a / b, duplex, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 60a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 62a / b, double house, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Hausenstraße 64a / b, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Leostraße 1a / b, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Leostraße 2a / b / c / d, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Leostraße 4a / b / c, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
		Leostraße 6a / b, residential building, 1904-08 by Richard Schmidt (part of the ensemble)
Hausenstrasse location	Factory hall of the Fenner Glashütte	After Napoleon Bonaparte ordered in 1809 that the continuation of the concession for the Karlsbrunner Glashütte would only be approved if it was fired with coal instead of wood, the works moved to Fenne between 1811 and 1813 near two coal pits. The glassworks flourished under the Raspiller family and had to be expanded several times. The glassworks workshop with its striking arched windows was built around 1900. With the beginning of the war in 1939, glass production in Fenne was temporarily suspended and not resumed after the war.
Saarbrücker Strasse location	Boiler house of the Fenne I coal-fired power station	The Fenne power plant was built in 1922/23 and put into operation in 1924. Both the boiler house from this period (built from 1922 to 1926) and the later extension are under monument protection.
Saarbrücker Strasse location	Turbine hall of the Fenne I coal-fired power station	In addition to the Fenne boiler house, the turbine hall is also a listed building. Like the boiler house, it was built between 1922 and 1926.
Saarbrücker Strasse 179 location	Gym of the elementary school Fenne	The gym was built between 1957 and 1960 by an architect Hoferer.

Fürstenhausen

location	designation	description	image
Fürstenstrasse 25 location	Residential and forester's house	The nearby Warndt Forest caused the Counts of Saarbrücken to build a hunting and forester's lodge in the area of ​​today's Fürstenhausen and to use the wooded region for hunting and forestry. A forester's house already stood here in the 17th century. The preserved forester's house was built in 1792 and is now used as a residence.

Geislautern

location	designation	description	image
In the Kirchenfeld location	Catholic Church of the Assumption	The cath. Church of the Assumption of Mary built in 1906/1907 according to the plan of the architect Wilhelm Hector in neo -Gothic style. The light building with striking rusticated pilaster strips , buttresses and cornices made of sandstone is constructed asymmetrically and has a strikingly wide transept. An octagonal turret is attached to the entrance portal.
Ludweiler Straße coordinates are missing! Help.	Station reception building of the Geislautern station	Geislautern train station was built in 1906 in connection with the construction of the Rosseltalbahn .
Ludweilerstraße 169 location	Wayside cross	The wayside cross dates from the 4th quarter of the 19th century.

Lauterbach

location	designation	description	image
Main street 146 location	Village cross	The wayside cross was built in 1786.
Paulinusstrasse location	Catholic Church of St. Paulinus with furnishings	The church called "Warndtdom" was built in 1911/12 according to a design by Peter Marx . The massive church building was built in the style of historicism and is based in particular on the Romanesque . St. Paulinus has a wide central nave with an elongated and coffered barrel vault and two narrow aisles. The interior is more reminiscent of a classical building. In the 1920s, the interior of the church was lavishly painted.
	Bergmannsdenkmal Lauterbach location	On July 5, 1876, 42 miners died in the mine in L'Hôpital ("Spittel"), including 26 from Lauterbach. The Lauterbach miners were buried in a mass grave in the old cemetery of St. Paulinus Church .

Ludweiler

location	designation	description	image
At the mayor's office 5 location	town hall	The town hall in Ludweiler was built in 1830 and expanded around 1910 and in the 1950s. Today it is the seat of the local history association Warndt.
Hugenottenstrasse 14 location	Workers farmhouse	Built in 1848
Landstraße 276 to Karlsbrunn coordinates are missing! Help.	Waterworks	Built in 1908
Lauterbacher Strasse 136 location	Worker's farmhouse with equipment	Built in 1863
Lauterbacher Strasse 150 location	Catholic Chapel of St. Wendalinus	St. Wendalinus was built as a chapel in 1898/99 according to plans by Reinhold Wirtz from the parish of St. Wendalinus in Großrosseln . Originally it was planned as the choir of a larger church to be built later. However, this was never carried out. After the church deteriorated in the 1970s, it was extensively renovated in the 1980s and 1997. The paintings inside come from the painter H. Klein from Merzig and were made in 1901.
Lauterbacher Strasse 136 location	Farmhouse	Built in 1863
Schulstrasse 10 location	Old school	Built in 1909/10
Schulstrasse 12 location	New school	The new school in Ludweiler was built by Fritz Otto and Driesch next to the old school in 1930/31 and expanded from 1950 to 1960.
Völklinger Strasse location	ev. church	The Huguenot Church was built in 1786 according to plans by the architect and builder Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel as a simple hall building in the Baroque style. The roof turret was replaced in 1876/77 by a tower that was designed in neo-Gothic and -Romanic forms and stands in front of the church. Access is via a double flight of stairs through the tower. In 1958 the church was expanded to the east. The concrete glass windows on both sides of the transept, which represent crosses shrinking in perspective, symbolize the expulsion of the Huguenots all over the world. The furnishings also include a Stumm organ from 1857 and the de Guiffardierre family tombstone from the 18th century.
Völklinger Straße 2i location	Farmhouse	The farmhouse was built around 1790 and converted into a restaurant in the 19th century. Graffiti from the time of the French billeting in 1793 has been preserved in the restaurant.

Luisenthal

location	designation	description	image
Parkstrasse location	Villa Stutz	The Villa Stutz was built around 1910/1920 as a director's residence and was named after its first inhabitant, the Prussian Bergrat Ernst Stutz .
Parkstrasse location	Mountain inspection building	The mining inspection building of the Royal Mining Inspection II was built around 1900.
Parkstrasse location	Laundries at the Luisenthal mine	The mine, which was founded in 1820, received its first shaft in 1862 with the Albert shaft. Richardschacht I was sunk from 1899 to develop larger deposits of coal . Richard II shaft followed in 1912. In the 1970s, Luisenthal formed a joint mine with the Camphausen mine. In the 1990s, Luisenthal was merged with the Warndt mine to form the Warndt / Luisenthal mine and in 1995 an underground network was established. Coal production at the Luisenthal site was discontinued at the end of 1994. The pit wash house was built around 1905 and was later used as a mechanical workshop.
Parkstrasse location	Carrier house I at Richard-Schacht I of the Luisenthal mine	The hoisting machine house I at Richard-Schacht I was built around 1900.
Parkstrasse 1/3 location	Residential and commercial building	The building was built by Richard Schmidt in 1892.
Street of January 13th 273 Location	Double mouth hole of the Veltheim tunnel and Albert tunnel	The double mouth hole of the two tunnels was made of sandstone around 1840.

Völklingen

location	designation	description	image
Hohenzollernstrasse / Heinestrasse location	Ensemble Hohenzollernstrasse	The residential buildings in Hohenzollernstrasse and Heinestrasse were built in 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt.
		Hohenzollernstraße 32, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Hohenzollernstraße 36, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Hohenzollernstraße 38, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Hohenzollernstrasse 40, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Hohenzollernstraße 42, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Hohenzollernstrasse 44, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Heinestraße 35, residential building, around 1905/06 by HA Sturm and Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
Richardstrasse location	Richardstrasse ensemble	The monument ensemble in Richardstraße includes the director's residence at Völklinger Hütte, which was built by Hans Großwendter around 1905, as well as Villa Röchling and several civil servants' houses belonging to the Prussian mountain treasury.
		Richardstraße 1, director's residence at Völklinger Hütte, around 1905 by Hans Großwendt, remodeling around 1948 (part of the ensemble)
		Richardstraße 2, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		1912 (single monument)
		Richardstraße 4, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Richardstraße 8/10, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Richardstraße 12, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Richardstraße 14/16, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
		Richardstraße 18 / 18a, official residence of the Völklinger Hütte, 1904-06 by Hans Großwendt (part of the ensemble)
location	Ensemble Völklingen lock	The Völklingen lock was built between 1875 and 1879 and is no longer in operation. It led to the port of the Völklinger Hütte .
		Lock keeper's house, 1875–79 (part of the ensemble in the Völklingen lock)
		Saar, Völklingen lock, 1875–79 (single monument in the Völklingen lock ensemble)
Rathausstrasse location	Ensemble Völklinger Hütte (pig iron production area)	In 1881 Carl Röchling acquired a closed puddling and rolling mill and had the first blast furnace ignited two years later. As early as 1890, the "Röchling'schen Eisen- und Stahlwerke" were the largest iron girder manufacturer in Germany. In 1891 the Thomas steelworks of the Völklinger Hütte was opened to smelt Minette from Lorraine. When sintering technology arrived in 1928 , one of the most modern and largest sintering plants in Europe was built in Völklingen. It allows the recycling of waste products such as gout dust and fine ore. In 1952, as a result of the construction boom in the post-war period, the hut reached its production peak. In 1975, however, the global steel crisis also affected the Völklinger ironworks. After the pig iron phase was shut down in 1986, this part was placed under monument protection as an industrial monument and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994.
		Rathausstrasse, old ore bunker of the Völklinger Hütte, 1902 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, Kraftwerk I and probably remains of the puddling furnace hall of the Völklinger Hütte from 1872, reconstruction in 1906 and 1912 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, workshop building of the Völklinger Hütte (Handwerkergasse), around 1900-10 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, Völklinger Hütte water reservoir, water tower, 1918 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, pump house of the Völklinger Hütte with machines, 1910 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, gas blower hall of the Völklinger Hütte with machines, 1900–14 and 1938 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, coking plant of the Völklinger Hütte, 1898, 1934–44, 1951, 1959 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, ore processing (sintering plant) of the Völklinger Hütte, 1928–38 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, dry gas cleaning of the Völklinger Hütte, 1912–17, 1925 (single monument)
		Rathausstrasse, blast furnace office of the Völklinger Hütte, around 1912 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, suspension railway of the Völklinger Hütte, 1911–18 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, Winderheater of the Völklinger Hütte, 1883–1914, 1957–76 (single monument)
		Rathausstrasse, blast furnaces of the Völklinger Hütte, 1883–1916, 1925–44 and 1957–68 (individual monument)
		Rathausstrasse, vehicle maintenance shop at Völklingen station, around 1900 (part of the ensemble)
Alte Schulstrasse 15/17 location	Residential building	Built in 1748
Bismarckstrasse 57 location	Tandem triplet reversing machine	The tandem triple reversing machine from Ehrhardt and Sehmer was in operation as compactor 6 in the Saarstahl AG rolling mill and dates from 1909.
Bismarckstrasse 57 location	Single cylinder direct current steam engine	The single-cylinder direct current steam engine of the Stumpf type comes from the Ehrhardt and Sehmer company and was in operation as roller pulling machine 5 in the Saarstahl AG rolling mill. It dates from 1912 and has been relocated .
Bismarckstrasse 57 location	Two-cylinder roller drawing machine	The two-cylinder roller drawing machine was built in 1891 and comes from Erhardt and Sehmer. It was in use at the Saarstahl AG rolling mill.
Heinestrasse 3 location	Equipment parts, interior decoration	The house at Heinestraße 3 is not itself a listed building, but its furnishings and interior decoration from around 1909/10.
Heinestrasse 5 location	House Biegel	The house was built in 1907 by an architect Kramer.
Hindenburgplatz location	Mühlgewannschule	The school building was built in 1908 by Kniebe in Art Nouveau style. However, only part of the original design was implemented. The three identical gables of the T-shaped building with the gently undulating gable edge are striking.
Hohenzollernstrasse location	Rest of the road bridge over the Köllerbach	The bridge was built in 1907 as a girder bridge according to the "Möller system". In 2001 the eastern half was demolished.
Hohenzollernstrasse 15 location	Residential building	The house was built in 1907 by Hubert Breidenbach .
Hohenzollernstrasse 28 location	Realgymnasium	The grammar school was built by Caspar Lennarts from 1907 to 1909 . The equipment includes a mural in the auditorium, which was created by Hermann Lasch between 1910 and 1913 , and a Walcker organ in the auditorium from 1909.
Coordinates are missing in the old Brühl ! Help.	Coat of arms grave stone for Johann Eckard von Kruckenberg	Von Kruckenberg (1644-1717) was an officer in the Royal Allemand Regiment and most recently a lieutenant colonel.
Karl-Janssen-Straße 1 location	Residential and commercial building	The building was built in the 19th century and rebuilt by Franz Wagner in 1923.
Karl-Janssen-Straße 17 location	Residential and commercial building	Built around 1900
Karl-Janssen-Straße 35 location	District Court	The Völklingen district court was built from 1897 to 1899 and increased in the 1930s.
Kreppstrasse 6 location	Residential building	Built in 1906
Marktstrasse 15/17/19 location	Residential group	The houses were built in 1907/08 by Eisenhardt and Wagner.
Moltkestrasse 35 location	Matthias Raspiller grave monument at the Reconciliation Church	The Raspiller family owned several glassworks in the border region. Matthias Raspiller headed a. a. the Fenne glassworks. The 3 m high sandstone obelisk from 1832 originally stood in front of the Evangelical Church on Poststrasse.
Moltkestrasse 35 location	Grave monument Leopoldina Dorothea van den Broek at the Reconciliation Church	Created in 1819
Moltkestrasse 35 location	Ev. Church of Reconciliation	The church was built between 1926 and 1928 as a neo-baroque church according to plans by the architect Franz Kuhn after the old church burned down. The model was the Saarbrücken Ludwig Church by Friedrich-Joachim Stengel . In front of the transverse church there is a 66 m high tower. The furnishings include a central oval with a mural in the dome, which consists of 3500 cassettes. It comes from Waldemar Kolmsperger the Elder. J. inside and shows the Röchling family and others involved in the construction in an industrial landscape. Above it is a Christ returning in the clouds.
Poststrasse location	Cast iron relief on gatehouse 2 of the Völklinger Hütte	The cast iron relief was made by Schliessler in 1938.
Rathausstrasse location	Mechanical production at the Völklinger Hütte	The mechanical production includes the forge, which was built from 1882 to 1884, the foundry, the mechanical workshop and finishing line with extensions and modifications until 1914. The equipment includes four forge houses, the forge, the heating furnace with two chambers as well as small cranes and tools.
Rathausstrasse location	Disk gas tank from the Völklinger Hütte, gas tank	Built in 1931
Rathausstrasse location	Telescopic gas tank of the Völklinger Hütte	Built in 1930
Rathausstrasse location	Völklinger Hütte slag bucket wagon	Location: Petite Roselle, CCSTI
Rathausstrasse location	Völklinger Hütte narrow-gauge steam locomotive	1904, located in: Petite Roselle, CCSTI
Rathausstrasse location	Station reception building of Völklingen station with equipment and pedestrian tunnel under the tracks	The old station was built in 1893/94 and was given a porch in the 1950s. During the heyday of the Alte Völklinger Hütte it was a hub for thousands of ironworkers and a transshipment point for raw materials for iron production.
Rathausstrasse 2 location	Old Town Hall	The old town hall was built between 1874 and 1876 in the late classical style according to plans by Richard Schmidt and M. Schneider. When Hermann Eichner von Richard Schmidt expanded it from 1905 to 1907, Art Nouveau and Neo-Baroque elements were added. A square tower connects the two wings of the building. The building on Bismarckstrasse has been significantly lengthened and raised. The portal was built over by a balcony supported by four columns. The town hall got large windows with colored glazing, chimneys and stucco decoration.
Rathausstrasse 16–22 location	Catholic Church of St. Eligius with parsonage and sexton's house	The rectangular hall church with a wide tower was built in 1912/1913 by Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski in place of the old church that had been demolished the year before. The three-aisled church in neo -baroque style has a wide transept. The church organ is one of the few surviving German-Romantic organs in the region.

Wehrden

location	designation	description	image
Monument Square location	Monument Square Ensemble	In addition to the war memorial from 19298, the monument ensemble also includes the twin houses on the square, which date from 1930/31.
		Memorial Square, war memorial, 1928 by Stephan (individual monument)
		Monument Square 1/3, double house, 1930–31 by Stephan (part of the ensemble)
		Monument Square 2/4, double house, 1930–31 by Stephan (part of the ensemble)
		Denkmalplatz 5/7, double house, 1930–31 by Stephan (part of the ensemble)
		Denkmalplatz 6/8, double house, 1930–31 by Stephan (part of the ensemble)
Grabenstrasse coordinates are missing! Help.	Pump and filter house of the Wehrden power plant with equipment	The pump house was built in the 1920s and subsequently changed several times. The mechanical equipment dates from around 1944.
Grabenstrasse coordinates are missing! Help.	Intake structure of the Wehrden power plant	Built in 1913/14
Kirchbergstrasse location	Catholic Church of St. Joseph with furnishings	The three-aisled basilica was built by Wilhelm Hector in the neo-Gothic style from 1897 to 1899 . The church has a ⅝ choir. In front of the nave is a tower with a pointed helmet .
Ludweiler Strasse 28 location	Residential and commercial building	Built around 1905 to 1910.
Saarstrasse 9 location	Residential house with equipment	South residential building of a row house group built by Hans Großwendt around 1906 for senior employees of the Völklingen ironworks
Saarstrasse 11 location	Residential house with equipment	Medium-sized residential building in a group of terraced houses built by Großwendt around 1906 for senior employees of the Völklingen ironworks
Saarstrasse 13 location	Residential house with equipment	North Residential house of a group of terraced houses built by Großwendt around 1906 for senior employees of the Völklingen ironworks
Saarstrasse 15 location	Residential house with equipment	The residential building for senior employees at Völklinger Hütte was built by Großwendt in 1906.
Schaffhauser Straße 18 location	Residential house with restaurant and hall building	Built in 1900

literature

• Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, pp. 571f, 1098f, 1115

Web links

Commons : Architectural monuments in Völklingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of monuments of the Saarland: List of sub-monuments Mittelstadt Völklingen (PDF file; 1.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl H. Janson, Wolfgang Schöpp: The railway node Völklingen . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-397-6 , pp. 47, 50f
2. ↑ Glashütte Fenne , memotransfront - Places of cross-border memory
3. ↑ St. Wendalinus Chapel , Warndt Parish Community
4. ^ Sights , City of Völklingen
5. ^ Short biography Johann Eckard von Kruckenberg ( memento from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Saarlaendische-biografien.de
6. ^ Memorial stone for the glassmaker Mathias Raspiller ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Warndt local history association

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