Zollverein Foundation
The Zollverein Foundation was founded in 1998 by the City of Essen and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , with the regional association of Rhineland as contributor . The Zollverein Foundation, recognized on December 8, 1998, is a non-profit, legal foundation under civil law and is subject to the supervision of the Düsseldorf District Government . The board consists of Hans-Peter Noll (chairman) and Heinrich Theodor Grütter.
Purpose and tasks
With the general aim of promoting culture and the preservation of monuments, the foundation's central task is to preserve and secure the existing buildings and outdoor facilities of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Zollverein Coal and Coking Plant in Essen and to develop them for future use. Various areas and spaces in the facility are subject to your event marketing .
The Zollverein Foundation has its headquarters on the site of the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site , since 2013 in the former management building at Bullmannaue 11 in Essen-Stoppenberg. The building, erected in 1906, housed the administration of the Zeche Zollverein for 80 years.
criticism
On the part of monument preservation and research, it was criticized that the Zollverein Foundation carried out extensive expansions and conversions of the Zollverein colliery that undermined the authenticity of the colliery complex. The focus of the criticism was a building attachment on the coal washing plant and a ferris wheel in the area of the furnace. As a "negative appreciation of the historical cultural landscape as a world cultural heritage" and as the "end of any historical basic research that could have prepared a professional monument conservation concept (...) on site", it was also criticized that the Zollverein Foundation does not carry out any history and monument work. The monument conservator Henry Cleere, representative of the International Council on Monuments and Sites , said at the beginning of the 2000s: "I have the feeling that people are forgetting why Zollverein is on the World Heritage List."
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint of the Zollverein Foundation , accessed on August 9, 2018.
- ^ Heike Oevermann: Urban transformation processes: careful design of historical industrial areas . In: Uwe Altrock et al. (Ed.): Yearbook Urban Renewal 2013. End of cautiousness? University Press of the TU Berlin, Berlin 2013, p. 107 ff.
- ↑ Hans Kania: “What is Zollverein?” . In: Hartmut John, Ira Mazzoni (eds.): Industrial and technical museums in transition. Perspectives and location assessments . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-89942-268-6 , p. 109 ff.