Nightingale colliery LWL industrial museum

Nightingale colliery LWL industrial museum

Nightingale colliery LWL industrial museum
Data
place	Witten
Art	Technology museum
opening	2003
operator	Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe
Website	www.lwl.org/industriemuseum/standorte/zeche-nachtigall

The LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall is a technical museum in Witten-Bommern . The museum, a branch of the LWL-Industriemuseum , is located on the old factory site of the Nachtigall colliery at Nachtigallstrasse 35–37. Today it is the anchor point of the Route of Industrial Culture .

Emergence

Chimney of the brick factory

After the Nachtigall colliery was closed in 1892, a brick factory was built on the colliery site by the entrepreneur Wilhelm Dünkelberg a few years later . After this brickworks had ceased operations in 1964, the site and the remaining daytime facilities were initially acquired by the city of Witten. In 1982 the Westphalian Industrial Museum took over the building stock of the former mine. From the daytime facilities of the former mine , the former wash house , an administration building, the outer walls of the machine house with extensions and a square chimney made of bricks were still preserved. In addition to these daytime facilities, the United Nightingale and the old brickworks were also taken over by the LWL Industrial Museum. In 1991 all remaining buildings were placed under monument protection. In the following years the buildings were restored. The tunnel , known as the nightingale tunnel , which connects the factory premises with the Rauen quarry on the southern side , has been revised again. In the same year, the cross-cutting tunnel was opened for guided tours. In May 2003 the LWL industrial museum Zeche Nachtigall was opened. The former mine has been used as a visitor mine ever since .

Exhibitions

After the opening of the museum, the hoisting machine house still preserved from the time of the Nachtigall colliery and the workshop building were used as exhibition rooms. The hoisting machine for the Hercules shaft was previously installed in the hoisting machine building. Today, a steam winding machine from the 19th century is set up in the hoisting machine house. The hoisting machine comes from the Franz Haniel colliery in Bottrop. In addition, reports on the development of hard coal mining in the Ruhr Valley and coal shipping on the Ruhr are presented in several exhibitions on the museum grounds and in the buildings . A small mine has been reconstructed on the site . Another part of the exhibition is a ring kiln from the former Dünkelberg brickworks. During the restoration of this furnace, the head of the Hercules shaft was exposed again and has served as an exhibition part of the museum ever since. In addition, the permanent exhibition "The Path into the Deep" is set up in the building complex of the former brick factory.

Picture gallery

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  Brick building

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  Nightingale studs

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  Carrier

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  Hercules Bay

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  Example of a small mine

Use of the area in film and television

The industrial museum Zeche Nachtigall, or the Nachtigall visitor mine, also served as a backdrop for various film recordings. For example, various documentaries for WDR television were created here, also part of the application video by the band Frida Gold for the Bundesvision song contest and parts of the underground recordings from the cinema production Junge Licht .

literature

• Gerhard Koetter: Hard coal under Witten. From the tunnels on Helenenberg to the Hamburg & Franziska mine (=  contributions to the history of the city of Witten . Volume 6 ). Association for local and regional studies in the county of Mark , Witten 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-029412-9 .
• Gerhard Koetter: Mining in the Muttental. Geology and history of the Witten mining trail . G. Koetter, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
• Ingrid Telsemeyer (Ed.): Nightingale colliery. Museum guide . LWL industrial museum. Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe. Klartext Verlag , Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-179-5 (Westfälisches Industriemuseum: Kleine Reihe , 26).

Web links

Commons : LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this attraction and anchor point as part of the Route of Industrial Heritage
• LWL - Nightingale colliery industrial museum
• Stadtmarketing Witten GmbH - LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall
• Technology museums in Germany: Nightingale colliery - cradle of Ruhr mining
• Kohlpod 42 - On site: Zeche Nachtigall in Witten - Podcast

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nightingale colliery . In: City of Witten. (Ed.): Open Monument Day, Witten 2011
2. ↑ ^{a b} Baedeker (Ed.): Allianz Travel Guide Ruhr Area. 1st edition. Verlag Karl Baedeker, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-8297-1182-1 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Nightingale colliery . In: Witten Tourist Office. (Ed.): Muttental mining circuit . 7th edition, Witten 1988
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch: The way into the depth. A new permanent exhibition in the LWL-Industriemuseum Zeche Nachtigall . In: Museum Aktuell , July 2007
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144) 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Volker Wrede: Excursion to the National GeoPark Ruhr Area . In: German Subcommission for Stratigraphy (Ed.): Annual Conference 2012 in Witten , proceedings, Witten 2012
7. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Parent: The Ruhr area; From the golden middle ages to industrial culture. 5th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7701-3159-4 .
8. ^ Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch: Cradle of the Ruhr mining industry: Die Nachtigall colliery in Witten - The digital reconstruction of the Nachtigall colliery . In: Conference proceedings (old) mining and research in NRW 2012
9. ↑ FRIDA GOLD: Frida Gold - BuViSoCo (election commercial). September 28, 2011, accessed November 6, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 44 "  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 48.2"  E