ehem. Umspannwerk Stangenmühle
In Saarbrücken's Gersweiler district stands the ehem. Umspannwerk Stangenmühle, an electrical substation that supplied the area's power for over seventy years. Concrete pillars hold up its industrial frame, and the building carries the status of a protected monument. Despite all that, the structure is coming down.
Over the decades, road salt chewed the facade and the pillars turned dilapidated, so repair stopped making economic sense. Widening the A620 counts as a priority of public interest, and that interest outweighed the monument protection. A new substation nearby has already taken over the supply, which leaves the old structure without a job.
You measure its end in days, not years: the teardown starts on a Friday and should wrap up by the Monday. Seventy years of industrial progress make way, in a weekend, for the road the city needs next.
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