Melin pit sleeping quarters

The last major sleeping quarters were built in the Saar region at the Sulzbacher Melin pit under French pit management in 1920. The single miners were also provided with a communal kitchen for a small contribution where they mainly prepared simple, yet energy-boosting potato dishes for which the Saarland cuisine is still well-known today. Dibbelabbes and Schales (a potato soufflé with bacon). This late design of the sleeping quarters was already adapted to the more stringent home and living requirements of the miners and barely had anything in common with the first mass accommodation in the 1840s.