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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 2001
The Zollverein XII Coal Mine
Industrial Complex is an important example of a European primary industry of
great economic significance in the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of the
complete installations of a historical coal-mining site: the pits, coking
plants, railway lines, pit heaps, miner’s housing and consumer and welfare
facilities. The mine is especially noteworthy of the high architectural quality
of its buildings of the Modern Movement.
Zollverein XII was created at the
end of a phase of political and economic upheaval and change in Germany, which
was represented aesthetically in the transition from Expressionism to Cubism
and Functionalism. At the same time, Zollverein XII embodies this short
economic boom between the two World Wars, which has gone down in history as the
“Roaring Twenties.” Zollverein is also, and by no means least, a monument of
industrial history reflecting an era, in which, for the first time,
globalisation and the worldwide interdependence of economic factors played a
vital part.
The architects Fritz Schupp and
Martin Kemmer developed Zollverein XII in the graphic language of the Bauhaus
as a group of buildings which combined form and function in a masterly way.
Criterion (ii): The Zollverein
XII Coal Mine Industrial Complex is an exceptional industrial monument by
virtue of the fact that its buildings are outstanding examples of the
application of the design concepts of the Modern Movement in architecture in a wholly
industrial context.
Criterion (iii): The
technological and other structures of Zollverein XII are representative of a
crucial period in the development of traditional heavy industries in Europe,
which were reinforced through the parallel development and application of
Modern Movement architectural designs of outstanding quality.
Source:
unesco.org
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