Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining

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Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining
Empelde Potash Museum entrance.jpg
Museum entrance
Data
place Ronnenberg coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 39.4 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 20.4 ″  EWorld icon
Art
opening 1996
Number of visitors (annually) 1300
operator
Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining eV
management
Peter-Michael Koehler
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-927019

The Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining is a museum in the Empelde district of the city of Ronnenberg in the Hanover region .

history

The friends' association of the museum was founded in 1991 as the association "Mining Documentation Hansa Empelde". The initial collection of documents on the Hansa potash plant was expanded into a museum from 1994 in rooms provided by the city of Ronnenberg, which was opened in 1996.

exhibition

Pulley and depth indicator, in the background the former administration building
Mine locomotive in the outdoor area

In 7 rooms on around 300 m² of exhibition space, the museum shows models and objects relating to the Empelde potash mining , the Benther salt dome and topics related to the formation of salt deposits , salt extraction and processing as well as a mineral collection . A remanufactured in the museum tunneling and a blind shaft allow visitors hands-on experience.

The city of Ronnenberg grants rent-free use of the premises, takes over the operating costs and structural maintenance. She is also a member of the mining documentation Hansa Empelde.

In the open air between the former operations building, which was also used by the exhibition, and the former administration building of the potash plant, which serves as the town hall of Ronnenberg, there are information boards and objects such as depth indicators and pulley of shaft III of the potash plant and the shaft cover of the shaft with a diameter of 6.50 meters. There is a mine train from an electric mine locomotive BBC EL6, which was formerly used underground in the Bergmannssegen-Hugo potash works, with passenger cars and trucks, as well as a mine bicycle .

Visitors

From 1996 to 2015, the museum had around 40,000 visitors in total. In peak years it was 4,500, later the number of visitors dropped to around 1,300 in 2013, for example.

The museum is open on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and otherwise by telephone arrangement for 90-minute tours.

Sponsoring association

The sponsoring association “Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining e. V. “has around 100 members and is recognized as a non-profit organization.

Web links

Commons : Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f The Lower Saxony Potash and Salt Mining Museum in Empelde. Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Achim Linck: Salt brought happiness and suffering. agrarheute.com, February 19, 2014, accessed March 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b The association. Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Matthias Biester (archivist of the city of Ronnenberg): Museums in Ronnenberg - A walk above and below ground, in: Peter Hertel et al. (Hrsg.): Ronnenberg. Seven Traditions - One City . Ronnenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030253-4 , pp. 37 .
  5. ↑ a b Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining eV neuepresse.de, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b So that the story stays alive. www.haz.de, July 17, 2017, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  7. ^ Museum for Potash and Salt Mining. Region and state capital Hanover, accessed on March 7, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Potash Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary. www.haz.de, June 26, 2016, accessed April 5, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Opening times. Lower Saxony Museum for Potash and Salt Mining, accessed on March 7, 2018 .