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Kreuzberg Mine

Kreuzberg Mine

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Kreuzberg Mine

Name: Kreuzberg Mine
Rating: 2

Recommended by 16 hikers

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Dörscheid, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. Blücher Monument in Weisel – Kreuzberg Mine loop from Weisel

12.8km

03:33

240m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Sauerthal – Blücher Monument in Weisel loop from Sauerthal

15.0km

04:14

310m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Roman Burial Mound Weisel – Roman Tumulus loop from Weisel

11.6km

03:15

240m

Intermediate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Frank🚶🏼‍♂️ & Silke🚶🏼‍♀️

October 1, 2020

As early as the 19th century, roofing slate was being mined on a large scale in Weisel. Shaft construction was carried out at the Kreuzberg mine. The Kreuzberg mine was the last slate mine on the Middle Rhine. It was closed at the end of November 1980. The headframe was put down and the shaft closed. Today the pit serves as a drinking water reservoir for the neighboring communities of Wollmigart and Ransel.
A residential building and various farm buildings still exist on the site of the Kreuzberg mine.
weiseler-geschichte.de/de/bilder-karten-video/sehenswuerdheiten/eckert-und-kreuzberg

In November 2017 the novel "Menschenfischer" by Jan Seghers was published by Rowohlt-Verlag. A main setting in this novel is "a dark valley on the Rhine" and the Kreuzberg mine. If you have read the book and walk this way, you will recognize some of the places described in the novel.

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Location: Dörscheid, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Kreuzberg Mine

1. Blücher Monument in Weisel – Kreuzberg Mine loop from Weisel

2. Sauerthal – Blücher Monument in Weisel loop from Sauerthal

3. Roman Burial Mound Weisel – Roman Tumulus loop from Weisel

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