Coal bunker
A coal bunker or coal cellar is a storage room for coal in power plants , railway depots or private houses.
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In many cases it is simply a brick-built underground pit, e.g. B. below the kitchen of a residential building without a basement, which is accessible through a trap door in front of the kitchen stove. A basement room in which coals are stored for use in the house is called a coal cellar. Such cellars used to be found in many houses. Now that coal has become uncommon as a heating material, it is rare to find used coal cellars. Often these cellars were provided with a shaft leading upwards through which the coal could be poured down. In multi-family houses, on the other hand, there were usually brick or wooden coal containers in the basement rooms or crates belonging to the individual apartments, in which each tenant stored his own coal.
In the time of steam shipping, ship rooms were called coal bunkers, some of which were at the same height, and some were higher than the boiler rooms.
Today, high bunkers are usually called 'coal silos'; since the Second World War, bunkers have mostly been understood as above-ground air raid shelters . In North Walsum port 2005, a coal bunker had collapsed.
Larger piles of coal stored outdoors are called coal heaps .
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- ↑ Coal bunker, the. (No longer available online.) In: Duden. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013 ; accessed on January 2, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Walsum mine coal bunker collapsed
