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Lohberg Mine Shaft Hünxe

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Lohberg Mine Shaft Hünxe

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    April 7, 2019

    Cycling

    Lohberg colliery, Hünxe shaft
    Devil began in 1983 as a weather shaft for the Lohberg colliery.
    2003 Breakthrough to the Prosper-Haniel mine shaft 10.
    With the closure of the Osterfeld colliery in 2006, the shaft will go to the Prosper-Haniel mine.
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    September 19, 2017

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    Old mine in the Hünxer forest.
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    1982: February 15, 1982: "First groundbreaking"

    1983: June 1, 1983: Beginning of the devil

    1984: Shaft reaches coal mountains at -615m

    1985: Setting up and breakthrough on the 3rd level (-733m)

    Commissioning of an underground mine ventilation system (6000m³/min) to improve the weather situation

    1986: Setting up the 5th level (-1317m)

    1988: April 22, 1988: Reaching the final depth (-1364m)

    1990: February 24, 1990: Breakthrough with 5th sole

    Installation

    2002: Breakthrough of the weather connection with the Prosper-Haniel mine

    2005: Lohberg funding stopped

    2006: Takeover by Prosper-Haniel Mine

    Partial backfilling up to the 4th level

    Robbing all shaft fittings
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    Location: Hünxe, Kreis Wesel, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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