Verwaltungsgebäude Union
Verwaltungsgebäude Union stands on Rheinische Straße in Dortmund as a monumental former headquarters for Union AG. It served the mining, iron, and steel industries. Architects D. & K. Schulze gave the block a Neo-Renaissance frontage with ten columns. An inscription above them praises work and action.
Construction ran from 1916 to 1921, and Hugo Stinnes inaugurated the building in 1922. Profits from the First World War arms industry funded its construction. Inside, three light courts accompany mining motifs, a machine gun, a cornucopia, and a laurel wreath. Its steel skeleton housed self-dialling telephones, electric clocks, a pneumatic tube system, and heating using rolling-mill waste heat.
After the Second World War, a meeting room hosted Dortmund’s first council meeting. Between 1995 and 2008, it housed the supply office. Dortmund lists the building as a protected monument, while vacancy since 2011 has brought gradual deterioration. Its façade still carries the sentence “Es lobt den Mann die Arbeit und die Tat.”
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