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A bit hidden in the undergrowth: the old Katharinenstollen of the former "Vereinigte Arminius" mine. Last active during the French occupation of the Ruhr in the 1920s.

The Pfaffenkammer is a small karst cave in the Teutoburg Forest near Borgholzhausen. The gap cave is located within the Johannisegge-Schmstein nature reserve. The natural monument is listed in the list of archaeological monuments in Borgholzhausen.

At this point you will find an old mine that was closed down in 1925. There are still some remains of buildings and a barred tunnel entrance to see. The access is somewhat hidden through a small forest from the north via Thenhauser Straße.

The Katharinenstollen looks very old and used. Something like that attracts me visually.

A little hole in the mountain, but I didn't crawl in.

Entrance to an underground path on the Hollandskopf mountain. Accessible via a narrow path on the mountain slope. Surefootedness required. According to internet research, this is a fissure cave made of limestone. According to a legend, it was used by the first Christians in this area to protect themselves from attacks by the pagans. It seems to be the entrance to a long tunnel to Herford (?).

Here is an entrance to an old tunnel, the Katharinenstollen. Unfortunately, the tunnel is very overgrown by the vegetation and hardly recognizable.

 In 1505, Duke William IV of Jülich-Berg allowed his governor Count Philip II of Waldeck, among others, in the office Ravensberg to build mines.  This permit resulted in some four hundred years of coal and ore mining in the community.  The first pit was probably located in today's border area between Halle and Werther. In the middle of the 17th century, coal was also mined in Eggeberg (at the Düfelsiek farm).  On the crest of the Teutoburg Forest one searched for near-surface ores. Wood for the expansion of the pits was abundant in the Teutoburg Forest.  By the middle of the 18th century, coal mining was profitable due to high timber prices and the problems of importing cheaper coal.  At the time of the mining boom in the 19th century, there were excavations in and around hall 23 for coal and 24 for near-surface iron ore.  The excavations were closed in 1883, as could be supplied by the increasing importance of the trunk line of the Cologne-Minden railway company coal cheaper from the Ruhr.  In 1923, a tunnel was briefly put back into operation due to the occupation of the Ruhr area by French troops.