Coal way
A coal route is a historical transport route from the 17th to the 19th century, on which primarily hard coal from the mines to the customers e.g. B. in the metalworking industry in the nearer region. Coal paths are particularly common in the Ruhr area . Some coal routes ran z. B. from there in the direction of the Wupper and Ennepetal .
The transport took place on pack animals or with carts that dug deep lanes into the ground and thus favored the formation of ravines . Later coal routes were designed as railway lines with increasing transport requirements and technical development . On the coal roads there were often restaurants that catered to the needs of the carters. At border stations between the Westphalian and Rhineland , the roads were blocked with barriers and tolls were levied. The routes of some of today's federal roads , state roads and district roads in the southern Ruhr area run on the old coal roads .
Well-known coal routes are:
- Gahlener Kohlenweg
- Hasenwinkel coal way
- Niederhofer Kohlenweg
- Rauendahler Kohlenweg
- Aktienstraße from Essen to Mülheim
Coal routes in the vicinity of the cities of Wuppertal and Remscheid also ran through the Bergisches Land in a north-south direction. Some parts are still there and have been placed under protection by the monument authorities
literature
- Walter E. Gantenberg: On old coal roads. Essen: Verlag Glückauf. 1994, ISBN 3-7739-0602-1