Mining hiking trail Wattenscheid

Overview board at the starting point

The hiking trail near Eppendorf on the former horse-drawn tram, 2006

Former machine houses in the Hector shaft, 2006

The Mining Hiking Trail Wattenscheid is a 4.8 km long mining hiking trail over the Ruhr mining in Wattenscheid-Eppendorf and Wattenscheid-Höntrop . It opens up various mining sites from the years 1738 to 1961.

The initiative of the Eppendorfer Heimatverein was supported by RAG Aktiengesellschaft , the NRW Foundation , the Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences and Deutsche Montan Technologie . The display boards were made by the district working group for cultural miners' care in Herne. The path was inaugurated on October 11, 1992.

Problems arose in 1998 because parts of the hiking trail on private property were suddenly closed. This problem was not solved even after years (as of 2018), in addition, other sections of the route through new development areas have been lost. Most of the signposts and information boards are also no longer legible.

Display boards and locations

Starting point Realschule Höntrop (parking lot, overview board)
United Maria Anna Steinbank colliery , shaft 4
Storksbank gallery
train
Colliery United Castel Sant'Angelo
Horse-drawn railway from the Hektor shaft to the coal mine on Hellweg
Hector shaft
Machine shaft
Oberstollen Storksbank
Colliery Railway Bridge
Geology in the Wattenscheider area
Dump shaft 3
United Maria Anna Steinbank colliery, shaft 3
Villa Baare

literature

Rolf Köhling; Wilhelm Spieker: The Wattenscheider mining hiking trail in Höntrop and Eppendorf. In: The Wattenscheider. Bulletin of the home and citizens' association Wattenscheid eV Bochum-Wattenscheid. Special issue 2003. 30 pages.

Web links

Commons : Bergbauwanderweg Wattenscheid - collection of images, videos and audio files

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