This is the "Neue tiefe Stollen" (New Deep Adit) of the "Consolidierte Sonnenberg" mine, which was built at the end of the 19th century.
According to the "Description of the Hamm an der Sieg Mining District" (1855), the mine was initially operated from the surface through shafts and later received two adits. One of the adits, the one described here, "brought in a baptism of 80m underground". Iron, lead and zinc were mined. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century again "the Sonnenberg" had not seen a "real miner" for a long time, that a local tried his hand at mushroom cultivation in the dark and damp passages and even built a small material ropeway across the Nister. But the hopeful project had to be abandoned. Since then, the bats feel at home again in their ancestral winter quarters.
A protective grid keeps uninvited guests out.
Rhein-Zeitung, No. 276 of 28.11.1995
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
This is the "Neue tiefe Stollen" (New Deep Adit) of the "Consolidierte Sonnenberg" mine, which was built at the end of the 19th century.
According to the "Description of the Hamm an der Sieg Mining District" (1855), the mine was initially operated from the surface through shafts and later received two adits. One of the adits, the one described here, "brought in a baptism of 80m underground". Iron, lead and zinc were mined. It was not until the beginning of the 19th century again "the Sonnenberg" had not seen a "real miner" for a long time, that a local tried his hand at mushroom cultivation in the dark and damp passages and even built a small material ropeway across the Nister. But the hopeful project had to be abandoned. Since then, the bats feel at home again in their ancestral winter quarters.
A protective grid keeps uninvited guests out.
Rhein-Zeitung, No. 276 of 28.11.1995
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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