Muttental mining trail

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The Muttental mining hiking trail in the Muttental area in Witten is a nine-kilometer circular trail south of the Ruhr . This mining trail was created in 1972. The show points are supervised by the Association for the Promotion of Mining Historic Sites in the Ruhr Area .

Content

Evidence of centuries of mining in the Ruhr can be found along the hiking trail . These include tunnels , pings , headframes , heaps , loading systems and more. Each relic is explained with an elaborately designed board .

The attractions of the hiking trail include several preserved or restored tunnel openings , a prayer house and the LWL industrial museum, the Zeche Nachtigall . The surrounding forests, meadows and the Muttenbach make the path a natural experience. Part of the route runs through the Hardenstein nature reserve . On the way or in the vicinity of the road are the ruins of the castle Hardenstein which Steinhausen castle and the mining and Feldbahnmuseum Zeche Theresia . Some distance away, near Herbede, there is also the Egbert colliery , the last small mine in the Ruhr area .

Some inns along the hiking trail invite you to rest and stop. The hiking trail is accessible through several parking spaces. With the Hardenstein near the castle ruins, the hiking trail is also accessible from the northern side of the Ruhr.

List of points

image	location	designation	number	Remarks
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Visitor gallery Nightingale colliery , Dünkelberg quarry	1	Nightingale tunnel also monument no. 139 , Rauen quarry also soil monument no. 8 and natural monument 2.3.20
	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Development of the coal industry	2
	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Eastern daily operation Frielinghaus	3
more pictures	map	Stollen turtledove	4th
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse 35 map	Miners' prayer house	5	also monument no.140
	Herbede Muttentalstrasse map	Dump of the Hermann colliery	6th	also ground monument no.18
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstraße 30/32 map	Building at the Constanz shaft	7th	also monument no.150 and monument no.151 and monument no.20
	map	Colliery Hermann	8th
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Reel system	9
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Jupiter colliery loading facility	10	also monument no.142 and ground monument no.10
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Stettin gallery	11	also ground monument no.6
	Herbede Muttentalstrasse map	Maximus gallery	12	also ground monument no.5
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Muttentalbahn	13	also ground monument no.9
more pictures	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Fortuna tunnel	14th	also ground monument no.11
	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Juno mine dump	15th	also ground monument no.4
more pictures	Herbede Muttentalstrasse map	Renate colliery	16
	map	Three tree	17th
	map	Memorial stone for unfortunate miners	18th
	map	Geological overview	19th
more pictures	map	Seam outcrop	20th
		Hollow of the Coal Mountains	20a	no longer a stop on the mining trail
more pictures	map	Göpelschacht Moses	21st
		At the "Piärrestall"	21a
	Herbede Berghauser Strasse map	Göpelschacht Wilhelm	22nd
	Herbede Berghauser Strasse map	Hollow of the Coal Mountains	22a
		Göpelschacht Heinrich	23
		Alexander shaft	23a
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Western Frielinghaus open-day operation	24	also ground monument no.13
	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Orion colliery	25th	also ground monument no.14
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Reiger gallery	26th	also ground monument no.15
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Pingenfeld Carthauser Hole	27	also monument no.29
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	St. John's Erbstollen	28	also monument no.263
more pictures	map	Weir and lock	28a
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Union adit	29	also monument no.143
		Ruhr valley / geological outcrop	29a
more pictures	Herbede Hardensteiner Weg map	Post-war tunnel	30th	also ground monument no.16
more pictures	Herbede on the Martha 1/2/3/5 card	Martha underground mine	31	also monument no.16
	map	Nightingale coal defeat	32	also monument no.19
more pictures	map	Nightingale Bridge	33
more pictures	Bommern Nachtigallstraße 27/29/31/33 map	Theresia colliery	34	typical examples of company buildings from the early industrialization phase, all types from half-timbered buildings from the 18th century to quarry stone buildings and classicist sandstone buildings from the early 19th century to brick buildings from the late 19th century; also monument no.200
more pictures	map	Braunschweig tunnel south wing	35
more pictures	Bommern Auf Steinhausen 28 map	House Steinhausen	36	also architectural monument no.230 and ground monument no.32
	Bommern Muttentalstrasse map	Meilerplatz	37
more pictures	Herbede Muttentalstrasse map	Margarethe shaft	38	also monument no.141
	Herbede Altenhöfen map	Berghauser Höfe	39
more pictures	Herbede Rauendahlstrasse map	Pinging	40	also ground monument no.12
	Herbede Rauendahlstrasse 166 map	Aurora shaft	41	also monument no.15
more pictures	Herbede Kämpenstrasse 97 map	Shaft frame of the Egbert small mine	42	also monument no.3
more pictures	Herbede forest path map	Weather chimney	43	also monument no.4

See also

• List of sights in the Ruhr valley
• List of active mines in Germany

literature

• Gerhard Koetter: Of seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. A hiking guide through the mining history of the Ruhr . 2nd, change Edition. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .
• Gerhard Koetter: The miners' prayer house in Muttental near Witten . In: VOHM (Hrsg.): Year book of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark . tape 92 . Witten 1994, p. 223-234 .
• Gerhard Koetter: When coal was still the future. Mining history and geology of the Muttental and the Nachtigall colliery . Klartext, Essen 2017

Web links

Commons : Bergbauwanderweg Muttental  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Mining circuit Muttental - Stadtmarketing Witten
• Mining hiking trail in Muttental - ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de
• Report on the mining trail in the Muttental
• Muttental mining trail in the Ruhr-Guide
• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~26~12657

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Jakel: Monument protection and preservation in Witten . In: City magazine Witten . No. 32 , July 2004, p. 23 ( online [accessed March 22, 2017]).

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