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Franziska Shaft Headframe

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Franziska Shaft Headframe

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    May 20, 2018

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    Built in 1893. The shaft depth was about 237m. In 1978 this mine was closed.
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    November 30, 2019

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    One of the last witnesses to the mining tradition in Rösrath-Hoffnungsthal is the winding tower Franziska-Schacht.

    The Franziska Shaft, which was sunk in 1892 as the fourth shaft in the …
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    July 28, 2020

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    The winding tower belonging to the shaft is a single-storey truss structure in a half-timbered construction with a rivet construction and two adjacent sheaves. The headframe is the oldest surviving headframe in the Rhineland and is important in terms of development. The winding tower is entered under no. 9 in the list of monuments in Rösrath.
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    1. Franziska Shaft Headframe – Lüderich mine winding tower loop from Hoffnungsthal

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    Elevation 190 m

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    Location: Rösrath, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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