Kastor (Engelskirchen)

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Castor
Municipality Engelskirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  E
Height : approx. 115 m above sea level NHN
Postal code : 51766
Area code : 02263
Kastor (Engelskirchen)
Castor

Location of Kastor in Engelskirchen
Former colliery house of the Castor mine
Renovated suspension bridge on the left side of the agger

Kastor is a village of Loope in the municipality of Engelskirchen in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is about 5.2 km away from the main town Engelskirchen.

history

Industrial archaeological finds extend mainly to the Kastor, Loope and Kaltenbach rooms. A considerable mining activity had developed here beyond the medieval hammer mills.

Castor Pit

Kastor was part of the former municipality of Hohkeppel until December 31, 1974 and became more important in the 19th century as the Castor mine . In 1861, in front of the mouth of the deep tunnel, a processing plant for processing the material to be conveyed from the Castor mine was built. It remained in operation until 1926.

Since the ores with Loren on the other side of Agger brought had to be built from 1860 to 1870 a wooden swing bridge or suspension bridge . The owner of the land had not allowed a solid wooden bridge, so the carts were driven over the bridge with great care. The bridge has been renewed several times and still brings back memories of the operation of the Castor mine.

literature

  • Anton Jux, Josef Külheim : Homeland book of the community Hohkeppel. For the millennium. 958-1958. Hohkeppel municipality, Hohkeppel 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl-Heinz Lüdenbach: The Castor and Bruno II pit. In: Loope. A home book. Published by the Bürger- und Heimatverein Loope eV Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-87314-473-6 , p. 178 ff.

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