Still standing
📷 Photo taken at 24mm with exposure of f/20 at 30 seconds.
Zollverein (1847-1986) - blue hour
UNESCO World Heritage Site
In 1847, the entrepreneur and industrial pioneer Franz Haniel had the first shaft downed in the north of Essen. In the first year of hard coal mining in 1851 were still 13,000 tonnes of coal produced, it was in 1890 already one million tonnes. The Fettkohlenvorräte in the north of Essen were large, so that in addition to the foundry shaft facility 1/2/8 in the following 60 years with the pits 3/7/10, 4/5/11 and 6/9 on the pit field Zollverein three more systems with a total of eight Shafts were built.
The last pit of the Zeche Zollverein colliery was created in the years 1928 to 1932 under the impression of worldwide mechanization and rationalization efforts. On February 1, 1932, the wheels on the conveyor frame over the new shaft hall XII for the first time turned into an industrial high-performance complex with largely automated Work processes in operation, based on the principle of imported from America Fordism oriented - ie the production line. The mine was from then on as the largest and most powerful in the world. In 1972, shaft XII reached its final depth of about 1,000 meters. Day after day, more than 23,000 tons of raw coal were brought to light - a capacity equivalent to four times the amount of an average turf. During the whole period of operation between 1851 and 1986 a total of 240 million tons of coal were mined. Up to 8,000 miners worked during and after the shift, with a total of more than 600,000 people working on Zollverein until the collapse of the Zollverein colliery in 1986.
Still standing
📷 Photo taken at 24mm with exposure of f/20 at 30 seconds.
Zollverein (1847-1986) - blue hour
UNESCO World Heritage Site
In 1847, the entrepreneur and industrial pioneer Franz Haniel had the first shaft downed in the north of Essen. In the first year of hard coal mining in 1851 were still 13,000 tonnes of coal produced, it was in 1890 already one million tonnes. The Fettkohlenvorräte in the north of Essen were large, so that in addition to the foundry shaft facility 1/2/8 in the following 60 years with the pits 3/7/10, 4/5/11 and 6/9 on the pit field Zollverein three more systems with a total of eight Shafts were built.
The last pit of the Zeche Zollverein colliery was created in the years 1928 to 1932 under the impression of worldwide mechanization and rationalization efforts. On February 1, 1932, the wheels on the conveyor frame over the new shaft hall XII for the first time turned into an industrial high-performance complex with largely automated Work processes in operation, based on the principle of imported from America Fordism oriented - ie the production line. The mine was from then on as the largest and most powerful in the world. In 1972, shaft XII reached its final depth of about 1,000 meters. Day after day, more than 23,000 tons of raw coal were brought to light - a capacity equivalent to four times the amount of an average turf. During the whole period of operation between 1851 and 1986 a total of 240 million tons of coal were mined. Up to 8,000 miners worked during and after the shift, with a total of more than 600,000 people working on Zollverein until the collapse of the Zollverein colliery in 1986.