Union administration building

The former headquarters of the Dortmund Union

Boardroom

The Union administration building is the former headquarters of Union AG for mining, iron and steel industry in Dortmund .

After the Dortmunder Union was transferred to the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG in 1910 , the administration building was inaugurated by Hugo Stinnes in 1922 . It took five years to build (1916 to 1921) and was financed by profits from the armaments industry during the First World War .

The building was planned by the architects D. & K. Schulze and has similarities with the Mannesmann administration building in Düsseldorf by Peter Behrens from 1911/12. The Union building encloses three atriums inside . The building presents itself as a monumental block to the outside of Rheinische Strasse. At the top of the building there are ten columns in the neo-renaissance style . Above this row of pillars, the inscription "It praises the man for the work and the deed is visible from afar ."

Inside the building there are motifs from the mining industry, as well as machine guns, cornucopia and laurel wreaths.

At the time of its construction, the steel frame construction was technically up to date. It had an internal self-dialing telephone network, centrally controlled electrical clocks, a vacuum cleaner pipe system and hot water central heating, which used the waste heat from the block rolling mill of the iron and steel works.

After the Second World War , a meeting room in the building, which had survived the war largely undamaged, served as a meeting place for the first Dortmund council meeting.

Between 1995 and 2008 the building was used as a pension office. It is entered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

Web links

Commons : Dortmunder Union - main administration building  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10619

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No. A 0327. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 16, 2014 (size: 180 kB). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '44 "  N , 7 ° 26' 0.8"  E