Guido Mining Museum

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The Guido Mining Museum ( Polish : Zabytkowa Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Guido ) is located in the Polish city of Zabrze and opens the former Guidogrube coal mine, which is a listed building, to tourists. The visitor mine is the anchor point of the European Route of Industrial Culture .

Guido Mining Museum

History of the mine

In 1855, Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck founded the coal mine south of Zabrze on the outskirts of Dorotheendorf, which was named after him Guidogrube . On the night of October 4th to 5th, 1887, five miners were killed in an accident. In 1912 16 horses worked underground and eleven above ground in the mine . In the 1920s, the mine lost its importance. It was shut down after the Second World War . In 1967 the coal test mine M-300 ( Kopalnia Doświadczalna Węgla Kamiennego M-300 ) was established here. In this, machines from the mountain machine manufacturer KOMAG from Gliwice were tested. In 1982, the Skansen Górniczy Guido open-air museum was opened on the site of the former mine. This was closed in 1996. In 1987 the mine and its machines were entered in the list of sights of the Silesian Voivodeship. The museum reopened on June 16, 2007. At the beginning only the above-ground part and the 170-meter-deep floor were accessible. At the end of 2008, the 320 meter deep bed was also opened for tourists.

museum

Above ground

The headframe

You can see a hoisting machine from 1927 and a pulley from 1934.

170 meter level

Underground chamber

The 170 meter level was opened for tourism in June 2007. It shows the working methods and conditions in mining in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. With well-rehearsed noises, the tourists should be offered an impressive backdrop.

320 meter level

The first 1.4 kilometers of the 320-meter-deep bed opened on December 5, 2008. Among other things, an 800-tonne coal collection container, a floor track and a simulation of a mining accident with the associated rescue operation will be shown. In another chamber, the visitor has the opportunity to listen to classical music in complete darkness.

Web links

Commons : Guido Mining  Museum - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c website of the museum, history ( memento of September 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 31, 2008
  2. ↑ Der Oberschlesischer Wanderer, 1887, Volume 60, No. 234 , Pages 3 and 5.
  3. ↑ Kompania Węglowa SA, Informacje historyczne ( Memento of February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 31, 2008
  4. ↑ n-tv.de, Polish Mining Museum - exhibition will be expanded , Dec. 30, 2008 ( Memento from December 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Zabytkowa Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Guido, Newsy , December 1, 2008 ( Memento of May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Polish Tourist Office in Berlin, Newsletter December 16, 2008 PDF file ( Webcite ( Memento from December 31, 2008 on WebCite ))

Coordinates: 50 ° 17 ′ 23 ″  N , 18 ° 47 ′ 30 ″  E