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There is also a light switch on this tunnel with which you can bring light into the darkness and get an insight.

The ice cellar was used by the brewery until 1895 to store the ice broken in winter to cool the beer in summer. A cooling machine has been doing this job since 1895!

Former slate adit of the Felicitas mine. There is clear information about this on the boards set up along the Sellinghauser Bergmannspfad

"Silberkuhle" near Bödefeld Around the middle of the last century, German industry was still in its infancy. In the Ruhr area, the collieries and iron works increased. In our quiet mountain country, however, the inhabitants sought their income in agriculture, in forestry and in modest commercial enterprises, as they had always done. During this time, an attempt was made to set up a large industrial company in our homeland, which would give work and bread to thousands of people. At that time, the reputation of Westphalian California went through the Sauerland. Foreign companies, the English and mainly the French had made the decision to thoroughly exploit the Ramsbecker ore deposits and to build up a large industry there. Zinc and silver ores were mined. Silver ore in particular was in great demand. So, in several places in the parish of Bödefeld, digs were made for ore

There are many interesting information boards along the Bierbrau Wunderweg. A very well maintained path.

The former ice cellar of the Veltins brewery

The tunnel is closed with a grid. The bat needs rest. 😁

The tunnel is approx. 100m long only 29m above the level of the Valme. A light switch outside allows you to look deep into the tunnel.