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Union Administrative Building, Dortmund

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Union Administrative Building, Dortmund

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Union Administrative Building, Dortmund

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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Banana cycle path - railroad line cycling – Lake in Fredenbaumpark loop from Dortmund-Dorstfeld

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3. Schmechtingsbach Nature Trail – View of Dortmund loop from Dortmund Möllerbrücke

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Julia

May 10, 2017

"The" King of the Railway "Henry Bethel Strousberg acquired the Dortmunder Hütte in 1868 in order to be able to produce the raw material for his railway orders himself, but high flying expansion plans were destroyed three years later, when the planned construction of a railway network in Romania turned out to be a bankruptcy Under the leadership of the Disconto-Gesellschaft, Union Aktiengesellschaft für Bergbau, Eisen- und Stahlindustrie zu Dortmund was founded from the bankruptcy estate Strousbergs in 1872. In addition to the Dortmunder Hütte, it included coal mines and other smelting works, and was the largest joint stock company in the Ruhrgebiet and the largest mixed company in the Similar to Strousberg, the Union also took on new acquisitions and gigantic expansion plans, and since the assets were also overvalued, the company was fully absorbed in the so-called "founding crisis." Its size and importance brought its problems Those who continued throughout the 1870s and 80s also distressed other companies and affected the economic life of the Dortmund area.
The union passed in 1910 to the German-Luxembourg mining and smelter AG of Hugo Stinnes. In 1922 he inaugurated the new administration building. Thanks to the profits from the armaments production, it was possible to build the new complex headquarters during the war and in the crisis-ridden post-war period. Within the United Steelworks, to which the Union belonged since 1926, she formed the Dortmund-Hoerder Hüttenverein AG with the Phoenix plant in Hoerde. Initially separated during the unbundling after the Second World War, this corporate structure was restored in the early fifties as the Dortmund-Hoerder Metallurgical Union. In 1966 Hoesch took over the metallurgical union. As a result of the steel crisis and rationalization, most production areas are shut down today. "Source: route-industriekultur.ruhr/themenrouten/06-dortmund-dreiklang-kohle-stahl-bier/verwaltungsgebaeude-union.html

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Julia

May 10, 2017

"Only the administrative building testifies to its former size, which was planned by the Dortmund architects Dietrich and Karl Schulze on the basis of preliminary drafts from the construction department of the Union and bears resemblance to the Mannesmann administration building in Düsseldorf by Peter Behrens from 1911/12 Considered one of the first modern office buildings on the continent and a model for numerous administrative buildings, the Union building, which encloses three halos inside, presents itself on the outside as a unitary block reminiscent of a Renaissance palace and steel industry, supplemented by machine gun, cornucopia and laurel wreath, accompany the visitors from the outside through the entrance hall to the central atrium and announce the field of action and self - image of the client Behind monumentality and symbolism, state - of - the - art structural and technical solutions are concealed Time The "Pala st "is at its core a steel skeleton construction with light or variable inner walls and had - that was something special at that time - u.a. via an internal self-dial telephone network, centrally controlled electric clocks, a vacuum cleaner pipe system and a hot water heater, which used the waste heat of the block mill of the ironworks.

Since the building had survived the bombing almost unscathed, took place here in the large meeting room, which is still preserved today, the first council meeting in Dortmund after the war instead. Most recently, the building was used by the provision office of the city of Dortmund from 1995 to 2011. "Source: route-industriekultur.ruhr/themenrouten/06-dortmund-dreiklang-kohle-stahl-bier/verwaltungsgebaeude-union.html

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Thorsten

April 17, 2018

Unfortunately, the building degenerates more and more. The access is secured by building fences.

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Union Administrative Building, Dortmund

1. Banana cycle path - railroad line cycling – Lake in Fredenbaumpark loop from Dortmund-Dorstfeld

2. Emscher Floodplain North Side – Emscher Renaturation loop from Polizeipräsidium

3. Schmechtingsbach Nature Trail – View of Dortmund loop from Dortmund Möllerbrücke

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