Salt houses
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The salt houses in Sulzbach / Saar are an ensemble of buildings made up of the salt fountain house and a manor house. All buildings are listed as individual monuments.
history
The mining of salt in Sulzbach was first documented in 1549. The salt from the red sandstone had been dissolved by groundwater. A well pumped the resulting brine from a depth of around 7 to 8 meters. The salt water was then evaporated by adding heat in large pans. What was left was the salt. A graduation tower was built in the 1730s.
At first, the well was only temporarily roofed, the construction of the salt well house then took place in the 1730s in the last phase of salt extraction. At this time, salt director Joseph Todesco from what is now Hesse was operating the plant. He had the well dug to a depth of 20 meters. The 1160 quintals of salt extracted in 1733 were able to cover all of Nassau-Saarbrücken's needs. But in 1738/39 the plant was closed. As a result, the salt well house was sold and a mill was built next to it.
The building of the Salzherrenhaus followed in the second half of the 18th century. What it was built for after the end of salt mining is unknown. However, the use as a residential house by the industrialist Carl Philipp Vopelius is documented in the period from 1786 to around 1800. Around 1900 the salt fountain house was supplemented by a residential house ("Haus Weber").
From 1817 to 1820 the salt works were examined by the Prussian mining authorities as the owner. It was decided against restarting operations and the well was temporarily covered. After the Second World War, emergency shelters were set up in the Salzbrunnenhaus. When the floor of an apartment collapsed in February 1947, the well was rediscovered. To preserve the facility, a cultural association was founded, which from then on was to be responsible for maintenance and support. Early ideas for a museum could not be pursued because the houses were needed for social housing due to the lack of housing. The well shaft was secured with a concrete slab.
The idea did not come up again until 1985, when the houses were threatened with demolition due to their dilapidation. In 1987 the building ensemble was renovated and supplemented by a long, angular new building. The new building houses a café and the city library. The salt fountain house was transformed into a one-room event hall, the old fountain system in the basement was restored and made accessible to the public. The architects of the redesign were Werner and Herbert Huppert in a joint venture with Miroslav Wolf and Katharina Hrankovicova. The former manor house now houses offices and event rooms of the adult education center Sulzbach.
Architecture of the mansion
The baroque mansion is a one-story plastered building on a high base and a steep mansard hipped roof. The residential wing has five axes, with the middle one accommodating the front door, which is entered via a staircase.
Architecture of the salt fountain house
The salt fountain house was built in the Baroque era, but was built as a functional building. The two-storey building is followed by a three-axis building ("Haus Weber") with a slightly lower roof, which was previously inhabited by the salt workers.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 1008
- Karl Ludwig Jüngst: Nassau-Saarbrücker salt production in the Sulzbachtal. Sulzbach 1549-1736, Dudweiler 1730-1736 . Sulzbach 1996
- Brigitte Quack: The historic salt houses in Sulzbach. An important testimony to Saarland's industrial history . In: Cultural monuments in the Saarbrücken city association - The historic salt houses in Sulzbach . Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 9-19
Web links
- The salt houses , site of the Barockstrasse Saarpfalz
- The salt houses , website of the city of Sulzbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the Saarbrücken Regional Association ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt, p. 35
- ^ Sulzbach cultural center . In: Bund Deutscher Architekten - Landesverband Saar (Ed.): Architectural Guide Saarland 1981–1996 . Verlag die Mitte, Saarbrücken 1997, p. 88f
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '52.1 " N , 7 ° 3' 42.1" E