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Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich)

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Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich)

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Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich)

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Location: Mechernich, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Großer Eindicker – Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich) loop from Mechernich

8.25km

02:16

130m

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2. Großer Eindicker – Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich) loop from Mechernich

5.44km

01:29

80m

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3. Stairway to the Small Cave – Beautiful beech forest loop from Scheven

27.1km

07:41

600m

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Mike 🇪🇺

January 15, 2018

Unfortunately, you can only visit it from the outside. Only on very few occasions can you look inside.

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February 1, 2018

As Malakow tower (also Malakoff tower, rare Malakov tower) refers primarily mining towers in the mining industry with a characteristic design, which were common in the shaft promotion in the 1850s to 1870s in continental Europe, but occasionally even to the Built at the end of the 19th century.

The structures are massive masonry towers with a fortress-like architecture. The sturdy construction of up to three meters thick brickwork and a stiffened construction in the interior made it possible to hold the heavy pulleys and absorb the enormous pulling forces of the carriers. The mighty towers were to be found in the districts of the Ruhr area, the Saarland, in Saxony, Lower and Upper Silesia, and in the Aachen area, but also occasionally in Belgium and France. They were mainly used in hard coal mining and ore and potash mining.

Malakov towers were replaced as the predominant form of construction with welded steel frameworks, after sufficient steel was available and technically able to construct such large scaffoldings cost-effectively.

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Gerd

October 6, 2016

Last surviving shaft structure from the Mechernicher mining period.

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Location: Mechernich, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich)

1. Großer Eindicker – Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich) loop from Mechernich

2. Großer Eindicker – Malakow Tower Emil Mine (Mechernich) loop from Mechernich

3. Stairway to the Small Cave – Beautiful beech forest loop from Scheven

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