ehemalige Bergwerksdirektion
Ehemalige Bergwerksdirektion stands in Saarbrücken’s St Johann district, between Trierer Straße and Reichsstraße. Its two wings frame a narrow central pavilion, creating a long perspective along the St Johann frontage.
Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden designed the building in Berlin, completing it between 1877 and 1880. Florentine early Renaissance elements shape its Neo-Renaissance architecture. It housed the central administration of the Saar coalfield mines until the early 1970s. Stone shields carry Saarland mine names, while medallions and sculptures show mining figures and professions. The Menges brothers of Kaiserslautern created those façade details in 1879.
War damage brought reconstruction in the late 1940s, and public protests prevented demolition plans in 1971. A staircase memorial by Ferdinand Selgrad, designed in 1964, remembers victims of the Luisenthal mining disaster. The building entered Saarland’s monument list in 1978.
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