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Entrance to the Egestorfer Stollen

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Entrance to the Egestorfer Stollen

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Entrance to the Egestorfer Stollen

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Location: Barsinghausen, Region Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Anna

October 6, 2019

Nice way to the tunnel ..

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Anna

April 5, 2020

There are several tunnels in the area ..

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Moonbeam🌜

February 21, 2022

The Egestorfer Stollen is a listed former mining tunnel in the Deister near Barsinghausen's Egestorf district in the Hanover region.

The Egestorfer tunnel was driven from May 1874 in order to reach further, deeper-lying coal deposits. The mining rights for the area had already been auctioned in 1854 for 30,717 thalers by the mining administration. At the mouth of the Stockbach, an area first had to be leveled for the necessary operating buildings. After driving 608 m in 1876, a 50 to 63 cm thick seam was developed.

The coal was eventually transported from the 720 m long tunnel over a braking hill and with the help of horses over 1.2 km to a loading track on the Deisterbahn, which opened in 1872, and transported away by train. In 1877, 273 miners were employed in the Egestorfer tunnel. The output rose to 45,272 t by 1883/84 and remained at this level until 1897, when it fell due to exhaustion of the reserves and the output was stopped for the time being on November 1, 1898 after a total of 1.3 million tons of coal had been mined. The Egestorfer tunnel was also used to ventilate the monastery tunnel, for which there had been a breakthrough since 1882.

In the years 1914/15 to 1920/21, coal was once again mined in quantities of 50 to 80 tons annually via the Egestorfer tunnel.

In 1983, the plan to expand the easily accessible Egestorfer tunnel into a visitor mine failed because bats had settled here in the meantime. Instead, the Barsinghausen monastery tunnel became a visitor mine.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egestorfer_Stollen

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Entrance to the Egestorfer Stollen

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2. Fuchsbach Forest Path – Bössquelle Shelter loop from Barsinghausen

3. Alte Taufe – Forest Path in the Deister loop from Egestorf (Deister)

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