Knappenrode energy factory
 Briquette factory building |
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| place | Knappenrode |
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Mining, industry
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| opening | June 18, 1994 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-494717 |
The Knappenrode Energy Factory (formerly the Lausitz Mining Museum Knappenrode ) is one of the four locations of the Saxon Industrial Museum . It includes the area of the closed and now listed Briquette Factory Knappenrode in the East Saxon town of Knappenrode, southeast of the city center of Hoyerswerda .
From 1918 until its closure in 1993, the Werminghoff briquette factory (later: Knappenrode) produced briquettes from raw lignite. The presses were driven partly electrically, partly by steam engines. The factory had its own boiler house and power plant to supply the presses and dryers with steam and electrical energy .
Until 1946 the factory was considered the most modern briquette factory in Germany. After the closure, the imposing brick architecture and the almost completely furnished briquette factory with a seamless series of steam-powered briquetting technology were preserved. Opened as a museum on June 18, 1994, the Knappenrode energy factory has been part of the European Route of Industrial Culture as the largest mining museum for German lignite mining since 2005 . In addition to the 100-year-old briquette factory (1914) and the power station (1914), the museum landscape, which is around 25 hectares in size, also includes other exhibition areas. They convey various facets of the East Saxon mining history to the visitor:
- Factory.Experience.Tour (historical briquette factory and historical power station)
- Mining technology and mine railway including technology of rail-bound vehicles (railway technology; for example reverse machine , Birkpflug and Gili )
- Mine rescue and rescue services
- Tertiary forest
- Exhibition tunnel for underground drainage
- Memorial for crashed miners in the Lausitz coal district
- Saxony's largest oven and fireplace exhibition "Hotly loved" with approx. 700 exhibits
- Mineral exhibition "Treasures of the Earth" in the historical wash house with new agates (approx. 250 pieces)
- Exhibition "When Knappenrode was still called Werminghoff"
- Traveling exhibition “What remains. 90 years of relocation in the Lausitz coal area "
- Special exhibition "Silicified Wood" of the VFMG East Saxony
- Photo exhibition “Jazorina. Lusatia in Transition ”by Freya Najade
- Model of the Knappenrode factory when it was closed in 1993
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- Maze and tunnel slide
- Germany's only hand lever draisine circuit , 900 mm track, approx. 2.7 km
- Museum shop with bistro
- Living in front of the factory gate: everyday life between the factory and the factory complex
- changing special exhibitions
The Knappenrode energy factory can be visited and explored all year round. Only on Mondays and December 24th, 31st and 01.01. the museum is closed (exception on January 1st are the New Year's tours). The museum is also open on Mondays on public holidays.
Web links
- Saxon Industrial Museum: Knappenrode energy factory
- Website from Knappenrode to the museum (content not up to date)
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 50.9 ″ N , 14 ° 19 ′ 45 ″ E