Mining House

The Kreishaus or Bergbauhaus in Senftenberg is a listed building and today the headquarters of the district office of the Oberspreewald-Lausitz. The building is a neo-baroque plaster building with an asymmetrical floor plan. The main façade with its colossal pilasters and round gable faces the castle park.
The building was built in the 1920s by the Lower Lusatian Mining Association. The association, founded in 1898 as the Association of Lower Lusacian Lignite Works by 13 companies, represented the interests of the Lower Lusacian Lignite Works. With the increase in commercial activity, more rooms were needed. In 1920, for example, a building plot was acquired on the way to Dubinaweg, not far from the Amtsmühle and south of the castle park. On May 16, 1924, the mining house was opened. In addition to the mining association, the building has been used by mining institutions such as the Mining Employers' Association of Lower Lusac, the East Elbe Trust Company for Miners' Settlements, the editorial board of the company newspaper Der Niederlausitzer Braunkohlebergmann and the Lignite Museum as well as the Lower Lusacian Waterworks Company. In addition, the mining kindergarten used the building for a two-semester preparation of the students of the Eisleben Mining School. The Lignite Museum was opened on 9 November 1925. After 1933, the German Workers' Front's legal advice center moved into the house.

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