Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum
Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum
Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum
Data
place Witten , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Art
opening 2002
operator
Working group Muttenthalbahn
Website

The Zeche Theresia mine and field railway museum is a technical museum in Witten - Bommern in the Ruhr area . It is located below Steinhausen Castle on the site of the Theresia colliery, which was closed in 1892, and is part of the Muttental mining trail .

Museum history

Locomotives and wagons were exhibited on the former colliery site as early as 1989. The museum was opened in 2002 after 13 years of construction.

The museum is operated by the Muttenthalbahn consortium, which was founded in 1986 and is recognized as a non-profit . The purpose of the association is to preserve historically valuable rail vehicles from the mine and field railroad area as part of a museum collection and as operationally as possible for posterity. The initiative owes its name "Muttenthalbahn" to the Muttentalbahn , a railway line that was used to transport coal on site in the 19th century.

Vehicle collection

An O&K light rail locomotive from the museum

The vehicle collection consists of 92 locomotives and approx. 200 wagons (as of April 2006). Diesel, electric and compressed air locomotives, passenger and mining vehicles as well as numerous lorries from the field railroad sector are exhibited.

The museum not only collects mine railways from the Ruhr area , a large part of the collection comes from Lower Saxony from the local peat extraction areas . There are also English wagons that were used to transport ammunition to the Belgian front during the First World War . These cars were converted into passenger cars by the club members and are used in driving operations.

Railway line

The museum operates a railway line specially designed for visitors, which leads from the Nachtigallstrasse parking lot through the mine and field railway museum to the site of the nearby LWL industrial museum, the Nachtigall colliery .

Web links

Commons : Mine and field railway  museum Zeche Theresia - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 28 ″  E