Dortberghaus

The Berghaus There is a Grade II listed office building in the inner city.

The Berghaus There arose in the years 1937-1938 according to the plans of the Cologne architect Emil Rudolf Mewes as an administrative building of the Gelsenkirchen Mining -AG ( Dortmund group ). The building is located in the immediate vicinity of the Dortmund main station and south of the St. Catherine's stairs behind the city and State Library of Dortmund.

The Gelsenkirchen Mining -AG wrote in 1936 an architectural competition for the construction of the building, the Emil Rudolf Mewes won. By the beginning of the Second World War, the proposed U-shaped building was not fully completed.

Its still used today was named the building after the abbreviated There Berg said Dortmund Mining AG, which was created in 1953 from the former group of Dortmund Gelsenkirchen Mining -AG.

Later, the Dortmund city administration used the building as building regulations and land registry.

In 2004 the building was vacated by the city administration. Since then, there Berghaus waiting for a new use. Plans call for a conversion to a luxury hotel.

The Berghaus There is registered as a historic landmark in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund and part of the Route of Industrial Heritage.