Historic Holzwickede mining circuit

Hard coal mining in Holzwickede (Station 1)

The historic Holzwickede mining trail , also known simply as the Holzwickede mining trail , is a hiking trail in Holzwickede . The circular route is approx. 17 kilometers long and can be used as a pedestrian or cyclist.

Stations

The mining circuit leads clockwise along 27 stations and 14 information boards provide explanations of the local mining history.

In the Emscherpark there is an overview sign with the history of the mining history of the hard coal mining in Holzwickede.
Today's Villa Pfiffikus (youth home) is a former administration building of the Caroline mine .
Next to Villa Pfiffikus is the former entrance to the coal mine Caroline with an information board.
There is an information board at the site of the former Freiberg colliery . Today the factory of VW Werke Vincenz Wiederholt is located here .
In the middle of the air shaft path is the former air shaft of the Margarethe colliery with an information board.
On Emscherquellhof during mining activity sprang from the Emscher . Due to mining in the Hixterwald, the Emscher, which originally rises there, dried up in the 19th century and came to light again here at the Emscherquellhof. Today the Emscher rises again in the Hixterwald.
Gottfried Köhling, who was a shift supervisor at the Schwarze Adler colliery in the 1830s and 1940s, lived in the house at Landskroner Strasse 161 . He was also responsible for selling coal. Opposite in the Hixterwald was the Gumprecht mine shaft, which was leveled in 1845 after the colliery was closed.
At the beginning of the southern forest path into the Hixterwald there is an information board about the Schwarze Adler colliery .
Pingen can be viewed in the Hixterwald . These are round, funnel-like depressions that follow the course of the coal seams.
There are also large depressions from a former sandstone quarry in the Hixterwald in the headwaters of the Emscher.
In a front garden at the end of the street “Im Schwarzen Adler” there is a boundary stone of the “Neue Schwartze Adler Zeche”. The stone originally stood elsewhere.
On the strand of hair between the Landskrone and Hengsen you can see in good visibility in the north as far as Cappenberg Castle and in the south as far as Iserlohn .
In Opherdicke there is an information board at the former quarry opposite the Opherdicke house on Schlossallee.
On the way from Opherdicke back to Holzwickede there is an information board about the Joseph Kleinzeche
A detour up the Hengser Weg leads to the location of the former Carlsbank colliery with an information board.
In the valley of the Holzwickeder Bach the path leads through the Schöne Flöte. At the beginning of the forest there are tracks of the horse carts that brought the coal from the shafts on Massener Straße to the south ( Schwerte and Iserlohn ).
A little further to the left of the path is an old mine dump from the Caroline colliery from 1856 with material from the two inclined shafts on Massener Straße.
The next station in the Schöne Flöte is an information board that indicates the artificial moat. Here the Holzwickeder Bach was straightened and canalized in order to use water power to pump the water out of the tunnel below.
You can also discover pinging at the Holzwickeder Bach. These are collapse funnels of shafts from the time after 1800 from the Caroliner Erbstollen .
Another information board explains the artificial shaft through which water was pumped from the Caroliner tunnel below.
At the exit of the path along the Holzwickeder Bach there is an information board at the former light hole 18 of the Caroliner Erbstollen.
About a kilometer further north is the mouth of the Caroliner Erbstollen with an information board. The tunnel entrance can be visited here.
The Schulzenhof is located on Massener Straße past the Natorper mill. At the beginning of the 20th century, the farm belonged to VEW , which also owned the Caroline mine. In the 1930s the courtyard was presented to the public as a fully electrified model courtyard.
Just south of the Hilgenbaum there is an information board on Massener Straße to commemorate the light hole 17 of the Caroliner Erbstollen.
A little further on, an information board reminds of the ton-long (sloping) shafts Caroline I / II.
Opposite the information board was the horse-drawn tram, which from 1857 led from here to the Holzwickede-Unna railway line. The loading platform was located on the current site of the Montanhydraulik company .
The last stop before returning to Emscherpark is a weather shaft of the Caroline mine northeast of the intersection of Opherdicker Straße / Hamburger Allee. The air used in the pit was extracted from the 58 m deep shaft. The shaft was in operation from 1886 to 1904 and was then leveled.