Baak mining trail

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The Baak Mining Trail , also known as the Baak-Sundern mining trail, is an approximately three-kilometer circular trail south of Bochum and north of the Ruhr River . The planner and coordinator is the Lower Monument Authority of the City of Bochum.

course

This mining hiking trail leads from the Sundern district of Bochum in a south-easterly direction to the Ruhrufer in the Baak district of Hattingen and back to the starting point. The circular route leads past several places that are reminiscent of early mining in Bochum and the necessary traffic technology. In addition to several mines, for example the Nöckersbank and Anna Catharina, the hiking trail crosses the course or partly runs parallel to two former coal trails that were operated by horses . The coal mined from the two aforementioned mines was transported to the Ruhr River on the Rauendahler Schiebeweg . This is also where the second coal railroad ended , as it was here that it was loaded onto special coal ships, the Aaken , for onward transport . There is a replica of a coal wagon near the shore . The Rauendahler Schiebeweg is considered to be the first railway in German-speaking countries to run on iron-clad rails.

The hiking trail then leads from the Baaker Ruhrufer part of the course of the second railway, the former Baaker horse-drawn railway. This was built among other things for the Baaker Mulde . Then the hiking trail follows a forest path, near which there is a reconstruction of the tunnel mouth hole of the Dickebaeckerbank colliery , before it approaches its zero point again.

Stations

Oral hole of the younger Sankt Matthias Erbstollen II on Obernbaakstrasse
Portal remnants of a small railway to the Baaker Mulde colliery , part of the siding to the Bochum standard-gauge railway

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