Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft - Nordstern Colliery, Gelsenkirchen - Horst, Germany, c1954 : Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft - Zeche Nordstern, Gelsenkirchen-Horst, c.1954
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Nordstern Colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output. Nordstern had a long history running roughly from 1868 to 1982 and in its it later years with was connected with the Zollverein colliery in Essen. The complex seen here was later preserved, the buildings designed by architect Fritz Schupp, now forming the wonderful Nordstern Complex.
Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft - Nordstern Colliery, Gelsenkirchen - Horst, Germany, c1954 : Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft - Zeche Nordstern, Gelsenkirchen-Horst, c.1954
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Nordstern Colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output. Nordstern had a long history running roughly from 1868 to 1982 and in its it later years with was connected with the Zollverein colliery in Essen. The complex seen here was later preserved, the buildings designed by architect Fritz Schupp, now forming the wonderful Nordstern Complex.