Dorp pit
| Dorp pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| End of operation | 1940s | ||
| Successor use | Landfill | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | limestone | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 '36 " N , 7 ° 6' 22.4" E | ||
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| Location | Varresbeck | ||
| local community | Wuppertal | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Wuppertal | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The pit Dorp was a limestone - quarry in the Upper Devonian Massenkalk the west of Wuppertal in the district Elberfeld-West . The quarry in the northeast near Varresbeck was named after the location Auf dem Dorp . The Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway ran south of the pit . The Eskesberg mine was adjacent to the west . A rock base remained between the two pits on which the Varresbeck flows south.
In the 1920s, the so-called Elberfeld marble was found here, which received media attention.
The pit measured around 230 meters in the west-east extension and around 210 meters in the north-south extension. After the dismantling stopped in the 1940s, the site was taken over by the city of Wuppertal in 1957. The pit filled with groundwater and was then used as a swimming lake for a short time. The pit was later used as a dump for rubble and construction rubble from the Second World War. The filled pit was later left to its own devices, and nature regained the area with careful steps. The area with 8.5371 hectares has been designated as a nature reserve since 2005 .
The Dorp ring furnace is still buried and protected as a ground monument.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Reising: News from the Eulenkopfweg. The history of stones, plants, animals and people on the north-western edge of the city of Wuppertal (= observe and get to know nature, Bergisches Land. Vol. 8). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-87093-068-3 .
- ↑ measured in Google Earth