Colliery Hermann

Colliery Hermann's administrative building- a three bladed baroque set- developed in 1909/1910- simultaneous to the colliery dependency's first segment- according to the plans of the architect Karl Schulze from Dortmund. The architect developed a building, drawn back from the street with a dominant part of a structure, flanked by two bordering side wings.
Preliminary to the three bladed baroque set there are two gate lodges in new baroque style. K. Schulze mainly reverted on historic structural shapes and baroque and classicistic formation details which he occasionally admixed with art nouveau elements.
The "Waschkaue", the set's core, was given a plain, clear appearance with a neo classicistic embossment by the tightening of the design. The three centrelines hyper- gabeling emphasizes this, too.

Neo classicistic and new baroque forms can also be found within the pay hall's interior design. Examples for the neo classicistic or new baroque forms are the cassetted ceiling and the wall fields which are structured into thumpening regularity by pilaster.
In front of the pay hall a stairway spire with a conic roof was erected. To this day the original coloured glazing with art nouveau ornaments persisted. Especially noteworthy is the genteelly swung stair- rail. The stair- rail with its simplicity can be rated as an order shifted forward at the style of new dispassion which was especially carried out in the twenties in Berlin.

The colliery's buildings are an important mining storied document. It testifies especially to the city's moved economic and social history and receives a special significance within the documentation of mining architecture.

The city Selm, the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft and the company Interhydraulik, which moved to the colliery Hermann in 2001, have decisively stood up for the old colliery's conservation.

The colliery is located "Am Buddenberg" in the quarter Selm. Only outside- visitation is possible.
Text with friendly authorization by the city Selm.