Zechenhaus of the Former Hedwig Mine

The colliery used to be an after-work house for the miners who were able to wash and relax after the previously sweaty work in the neighboring quarry. The garage housed in a side wing of the building (locked with a massive wooden gate) suggests that the colliery house could have been built between 1920 and 1935 before World War II.

The colliery house. Unfortunately expires because nothing is done. Like so much that belongs to the "Princely House".

On the slope between the village and the Rinderbügen farm, coal came to light and, half a meter thick, consisted almost entirely of young, inferior brown coal (lignite). It extended through the entire plateau southeast of Rinderbügen into the Büdinger Forest. After the dismantling was not possible for over 200 years due to technical difficulties, the "Hedwig mine" was opened after the war in 1870/71. A cable car led from a colliery house still preserved above Rinderbügen to the country road to Büdingen, from where it was transported by horse and cart. In 1936, a 15 cm thick lignite seam was discovered under the center of the village.1879-1904
The "Hedwig" colliery supplies the city and the surrounding area with fuel.Swell:
wikipedia.org,
stadt-buedingen.de/Stadtleben/Die-Stadt/Stadtgeschichte