Wesselbank colliery

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Wesselbank colliery
General information about the mine
Mining technology Underground mining
Information about the mining company
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '48 "  N , 7 ° 28' 39.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '48 "  N , 7 ° 28' 39.2"  E
Wesselbank Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Wesselbank colliery
Location of the Wesselbank colliery
Location Bittermark city forest
local community Dortmund
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Dortmund
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Wesselbank colliery is a former hard coal mine in Dortmund .

The Wesselbank colliery was located in what is now the Bittermark city forest on the northern slope of the Ardey Mountains . The coal seams occur here near the surface to day , so that mining in the tunnels degradation without complex technology early on was possible.

The mining relics in the Bittermärker Forest are entered as a ground monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund .

literature

  • Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9

Individual evidence

  1. No. B 0022. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 15, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmund.de