Training Mine Recklinghausen

You can visit this training mine. It is best if you register as a group immediately. However, the dates are partly booked well in advance, so take care in good time. Small groups may join another group.
Register at the phone number: 02361 / 308-223
The visit lasts about 3 hours and is free of charge.

The training mine Recklinghausen is located under the mountain dump of the Recklinghausen colliery in Recklinghausen-Hochlarmark.The pigeon rock from the two shafts was piled up since the sinking of the first shaft (1869) directly next to shaft II on Wannerstraße. During the Second World War, shelter bunkers were built for the miners and residents of the Triangle settlement. Over time, a dense stock of trees grew on the heap. The heap height makes itself next to the adjacent dump Hoheward rather inconspicuous.The temporarily abandoned protective devices were reopened in 1975, shortly before the closure of the shaft II, and continued to drive up, creating a total network of 1,200 m with various, even surface, training and event rooms. Three different struts, three road drives and a shaft were created. The "mine" is used by the RAG for education and training purposes and as a venue or marketing instrument. Everything that is technically dispersed in a normal mine at great depths and over wide areas can be concentrated, tested and inspected here in a location without long journeys. In the training mine, machines and systems are tested individually and in interaction with one another, and inspections are carried out by the monitoring authorities.

At the time of the active coal mining of the DSK, apprentices were trained here for the underground operation. Longwall construction, pump operation, water conservation, Einhäneinenhängebau, coal planer, etc everything was here to find and training purposes in operation.