Barsinghausen monastery tunnel
 In the open-air area of the Klosterstollen visitor mine |
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| place |
Barsinghausen 
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| opening | May 1999 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | approx. 8000 |
| operator |
Alte Zeche - non-profit operating company
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-925617 |
The Barsinghausen Abbey Gallery , officially the Klosterstollen visitor mine , is a visitor mine in the city of Barsinghausen in the Hanover region , which was opened in May 1999 and shows part of the disused Barsinghausen coal mine . Up to 1957, Preussag mined hard coal in the colliery .
history
There is evidence of a coal mine in operation in the Deister as early as 1639. In the middle of the 19th century occurred in Barsinghausen first at higher slopes of the Deister to plant new mines to promote in to cm to 100 powerful coal seams encountered Wealdenkohle . On September 1st, 1856, the driving of the monastery tunnel began in the district behind the long Kamp . His name refers to the monastery chamber of Hanover as the owner of the parcel. It was deeper on the Deister slope than the tunnels that were already conveying and, in addition to finding deeper seams, was also intended to serve as a water solution . Since 1867 the administration was under the Prussian state.
A coal seam 70 cm thick was reached on October 7, 1869 with a tunnel length of 1,474 meters and production started on November 10. Pit horses were used for the first time in 1876 . In 1888, the east began Stollenmundloch hole the depths of the first of three wells on the mine site. ▼
The 750 m² colliery hall, which is still used for events, was built in 1898. Coal production in the monastery tunnel was stopped in 1921. The tunnel was used for weather control until the colliery was closed. After the coal production of the Barsinghausen hard coal mine was stopped in February 1957 for reasons of profitability, the cloister tunnel was filled with backfill material to about 75 m and the mouth hole was bricked up.
Expansion to a visitor mine
In the early 1980s, former miners in Barsinghausen came up with a plan to set up a visitor mine. In 1983 the plan to use the Egestorf tunnel , which is a protected monument in the Deister near the Egestorf district, failed because bats had settled here in the meantime . Since it was closed in 1898, the Egestorf tunnel had been used to ventilate the monastery tunnel , to which a breakthrough had existed since 1882 .
Monastery tunnel
In 1984, the visitor mine plans were shifted to the monastery tunnel located on the edge of the city center of Barsinghausen. From the beginning of the work, which was mainly carried out by volunteers, in 1986, it took 13 years to dry out the water-filled tunnel and to work it out for guided tours. Normally, 300 liters of water per minute have to be drained through a pipe to the Reitbach .
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The mining authority Goslar granted the monastery tunnel at 1 May 1999 admission as a visitor mine with personenbefördernder mine train .
Colliery area
Various mine vehicles are exhibited on the mine site and they and the history of the mine are described on display boards.
In the summer of 2005, Shaft II, which was sunk in 1900 and backfilled in 1957, was partly cleared again and in 2007 a headframe was erected above it. ▼
Weather shaft Schnepfenflucht
The old Schnepfenflucht weather shaft was exposed again to ventilate the monastery tunnel. The 74 m deep shaft was about 1310 m away from the mouth hole and about 15 m next to the tunnel. Up to the year 1897 a weather furnace was operated here as in the three other weather shafts of the monastery tunnel . When a steam engine- driven fan system took over the work on one of the other weather shafts , the weather furnaces were dismantled and the Schnepfenflucht weather shaft was forgotten.
The weather shaft is also intended as an emergency exit and was prepared for this purpose in 2012 with a scaffold and a pulley. Handrails and a pit ventilator were installed in the underground . ▼
Museum operation
The colliery hall and a laundrette with the clothing and equipment used by the miners in the past are shown during guided tours . The mine railway with a gauge of 600 mm uses three accumulator locomotives of the type LEW EL 9 . The visitors are driven in passenger cars about 1.38 km below ground into the gently sloping monastery tunnel. During the approximately two-hour tour, activities and equipment for driving up the road and extracting coal will be demonstrated there.
During one of the approximately three-hour walking tours , which are only possible by arrangement and at an additional cost , areas of the monastery tunnel, which is 9 ° C cool all year round, are also shown that cannot be reached when entering the mine railway.
A total of ten supervisors take turns in the visitor guidance. With around 7,000 visitors in 2016, the monastery tunnel's permitted capacity for safety reasons was almost exhausted in the summer months. In winter, however, there was less interest. By April 2016, the visitor mine operated by the Alte Zeche - Gemeinnützige Betriebs GmbH had a total of 108,126 visitors. The Förderverein Besucherbergwerk Monastery tunnel Barsinghausen had 277 members at this time.
The Barsinghausen colliery park connects to the east of the museum grounds. Here, too, information boards are provided about the colliery buildings and their history, some of which can still be seen in the museum area or on neighboring properties. The mountain dump , largely overgrown with trees, offers several viewpoints. Some art objects are placed on the heap. In addition to the monastery tunnel, which is open all year round from Monday to Saturday, there is a stylish café and bistro.
Headframe over shaft II
Rail vehicles on display
Art object in the Zechenpark
The Schnepfenflucht weather shaft, 1.3 km away in the Deister
See also
Web links
Map with all coordinates: 
supporting documents
- ↑ Jörg Rocktäschel: Mining: The monastery tunnel has two lives. www.haz.de, June 22, 2015, accessed on August 15, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d e f THE DEISTER COAL MINING. (No longer available online.) Www.klosterstollen.de, 2012, archived from the original on August 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Information boards in the Zechenpark. www.barsinghausen.de, accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Eckard Steigerwald: 10. Origin and development of the visitor mine Klosterstollen . In: Barsinghausen - under Schlegel, Klöppel and Eisen . 2nd Edition. 2010, OCLC 846496957 , p. 309–311 ( barsinghausen.de [PDF; 3.9 MB ; accessed on August 13, 2016]).
- ↑ The Deister Coal Path is to be expanded further. (No longer available online.) Www.dewezet.de, November 18, 2009, archived from the original on August 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ by the Friends of the Visitor Mine, Klosterstollen Barsinghausen e. V. set up information board no. 14 of the Deister coal path at the Schnepfenflucht weather shaft
- ↑ a b Alte-Zeche-Team wants to enlarge the mine again. www.neuepresse.de, February 19, 2013, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Friends of the Visitors Mine Barsinghausen eV, Klosterstollen, 30890 Barsinghausen. Bahn-Express, June 2, 2003, accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Andreas Kannegießer: Visitor mine wants more winter guests. www.haz.de, January 14, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Visitor mine Klosterstollen Barsinghausen. www.besucherbergwerk-klosterstollen.de, accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Visitor mine Klosterstollen Barsinghausen. www.barsinghausen.de, accessed on August 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Jörg Rocktäschel: The visitor mine is busy. www.haz.de, August 14, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Jörg Rocktäschel: Udo Mientus is followed by Britta Sander. www.haz.de, April 5, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Klosterstollen mine. www.hannover.de, accessed on August 15, 2016 .