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Miners' Memorial Stone, Muttental

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Witten

Miners' Memorial Stone, Muttental

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Miners' Memorial Stone, Muttental

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Location: Witten, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Julia

October 29, 2017

Anyone looking at the evidence of mining history today should not forget the dangers to which miners have always been exposed.
Coal mining was particularly dangerous in a seam in which previous generations had left coal. Sometimes the loosened rock layers collapsed there when you worked in them again. There were also unknown cavities from which water could break out.
The memorial stone commemorates miners who had an accident here in the 1950s. Their names are representative of all those who lost their lives underground in the previous centuries.

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Netreisetagebuch

June 10, 2021

"...Very close to the tripod tree there is a memorial plaque for the miners who died..."
Find out more about the Muttental mining trail at: netreisetagebuch.de/bergbauwanderweg-muttental

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Carlo63

December 25, 2024

The job of a miner was always and everywhere a dangerous job. In addition to the everyday dangers of an accident at work, invisible dangers lurk. The fear of death and the "last shift" (miner's funeral) was a constant companion of miners for a long time.

In the Ruhr mining region, over 30% of men worked in mining at times. From the beginning of industrialization until the 1950s, fatal accidents were a sad part of everyday life.

Source and link to the full article:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungl%C3%BCcke_im_Ruhrbergbau

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Location: Witten, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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