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Old Mine Entrance (Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen)

Old Mine Entrance (Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen)

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Old Mine Entrance (Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen)

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Location: Maasmechelen, Tongeren, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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Roland

April 15, 2018

Hiking

The area around the old mine is fenced. If you want to take a look behind the rusted gate of the mine, then it is worthwhile to go up a staircase on the right side of the concrete pillars from the footpath by the lake. Then you are inside the fence.
P.S. What is hidden behind the gate should not be revealed here, perhaps another hiker wants to "discover" it himself. Therefore no photo.

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November 25, 2024

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The fence consists of thin iron wire and is broken in many places, flattened or simply gone. When I arrived after a very early walk and there was hardly anyone in the nature reserve, there were already parents who let their children walk freely in and out of the building. And that while the back is several meters deep. If they really want to close this off, they should do more serious work with more and more tourists and attractions, especially now with the bridge between the slag heaps.

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An 🇧🇪

December 29, 2025

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This seems to me more like a depot or loading and unloading area (or something else) than a mine entrance, because I don't think horizontal mine entrances ever existed in Limburg, at least not for the coal mines. You could only go down through the shafts.

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