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Jupiter Mine Entrance (1783), Muttental Mining Trail

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Jupiter Mine Entrance (1783), Muttental Mining Trail

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Jupiter Mine Entrance (1783), Muttental Mining Trail

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

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Moin Weite Welt (Markus)

May 24, 2016

There is a replica of the machine house of this small coal mine

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Julia

October 29, 2017

The meadow floor of the valley is covered by heaped earth. It is an overburden dump that was created by the Juno shaft.
Juno shaft was built in 1847 as a joint project between the Fortuna and Jupiter collieries. In order to create a sufficiently large colliery site, the course of the Muttenbach was moved to the opposite edge of the valley.
The shaft was initially only 20 meters deep. Two miners pulled the coal from the depths with a hand reel. The pit water could flow through a branch line of the St. Johannes Erbstollen to the Ruhr.
In 1856 the shaft was enlarged and a horse peg was built. From then on, the coal was extracted with 1 HP. The Göpel was one of the last in the area.
In 1884 operations at the Juno shaft were finally closed.

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Oliver

January 10, 2017

The Renate mine is a former coal mine in the Witten district Vormholz. The mine was only a few years in operation as a small fishmonger, owner of the small mine was the Renate Bergbaugesellschaft mbH.

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Julia

October 28, 2017

The fort Fortuna in the district of Herbede Witten (district Bommerholz-Muttental) is a former coal mine. The colliery arose from a business combination of the two collieries Fortuna to the east and Fortuna to the west. Parts of the mine are now part of the mining trail Muttental.

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Ralph K.

July 2, 2017

Not quite as spectacular, but worth seeing. Especially the way there is very nice.

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MrIdea

January 20, 2019

The Renate mine is a former coal mine in the Witten district Vormholz. The mine was only a few years in operation as Kleinzeche.

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det801

May 19, 2017

Today, the replica of the machine house, the wooden conveyor frame and the bucket are reminiscent of the Renate mine. The shaft opening of the tonnbled shaft is still present. The buildings are part of the Bergbaurundweg in Muttental. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeche_Renate

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Ray

March 29, 2020

One of the many mines that show how dynamic early industrialization was and how close coal was to the surface

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Miodrag Knežević

March 10, 2021

The Muttental mining trail in the Muttental area in Witten is a 9-kilometer circular trail south of the Ruhr. This mining trail was created in 1972. The show points are managed by the Association for the Promotion of Mining Historic Sites in the Ruhr area.
The first coal in the Ruhr area was probably found here in the Muttental.
Numerous small and small mines once dug coal in tunnels and the first shafts. Today, many relics of the past can be viewed with the help of reconstructed and preserved objects on a walk along the mining trail.

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Röser

October 8, 2020

Information on Renate colliery can be found at the following link:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeche_Renate

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Atze (Roland H.)

October 10, 2021

On the mining circular trail, there is a board at every tunnel/mine with some information that even many "Ruhrpottler" certainly didn't know yet.
For this reason, it is worth stopping the hike briefly to read up on it.

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DULMI

November 1, 2021

You can hike through the Muttental - either on paved forest paths or on narrow single trails, on which you sometimes have to overcome fallen trees.
The stations explaining the mining history of this area are informative.

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WAN-DAN

April 15, 2024

Really a great hiking trail. Paths, wide trails, forest and water and lots of history.

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Angel

February 16, 2025

Difficult for children and dog carts

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Bine137

June 23, 2025

Great path with interesting information about the individual tunnels.

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Kevin Beyer

October 24, 2020

Hard to imagine how hard the physical labor was to move the coal.

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Miodrag Knežević

March 10, 2021

The replica machine house, the wooden headframe and the hoisting vessel still remind of the Renate colliery. The shaft opening of the barrel-length shaft is also still there. The buildings are part of the mining circuit in the Muttental.

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Netreisetagebuch

June 10, 2021

"...Here we find not only a tunnel entrance for a change, but also a machine house and a head frame...."
Find out more about the Muttental mining trail at: netreisetagebuch.de/bergbauwanderweg-muttental

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Christopher

January 9, 2020

Super nice the area here

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