Insights into the world underground

HÜCKELHOVEN. A museum is often a place where a view is thrown back in time. The lives of people and their living environment and is issued by, gives a glimpse of the living today and makes a comparison to. GER has a special museum since 1997.

INFO ABOUT MINING
The museum is open to the Ludovicistraße 1 in Hueckelhoven on every second Sunday of the month 11 to 15 clock and every Wednesday from 18 clock.

Admission is free.

More information is available on the Internet at the address

The operators have named it after their club name: Museum of Minerals and mining eV friends in the city Hueckelhoven

Underground mines flooded in Germany

Country under the surface and underground in the grace of God Erbstollen
"Free Press" wants to help victims of the floods and storms, has therefore launched a fundraising campaign. Of these people will benefit, but also clubs such as the Mining Olbernhau. Although the mine is located on the mountain, but is completely under water for a week.
Olbernhau (fp). The chairman of the mining community of interest (ITUC) and minerals Olbernhau Area, Uwe Kempe wades through knee-high water. The mine in the grace of God sough is flooded during the flood a week ago.

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Quarks & Co: underground mining

"Prosper-Haniel in Bottrop is one of the few remaining active mines in
North Rhine-Westphalia. Working here more than 4,100 employees who
support each year about 3.5 million tons of coal. Germany needs coal
to make electricity out of it. Still, it looks like as if the coal
mining without any future One reason.... Chinese coal is cheaper This
threatens to Germany to die a whole industry Ranga Yogeshwar pulls
into the pit and discovered in about 1,000 meters depth, a whole
different world, he speaks with the miners, tells of the battle for
coal, gas and mining disasters and shows how challenging the work is
far beneath the earth, people and technology.

The entire route network of Prosper-Haniel is 123 kilometers. Until
the coal from the mine is out, it must be transported many miles in
the mine - in cars, in huge shipping containers, the rush with a speed
of 70 km / h in the air and on two computer-controlled conveyor belts.
Quarks & Co shows the path of coal from the face to light up.

100 years ago the coal with pick and shovel was broken. Middle of the
last century, facilitated by compressed air-driven hammers dismantling
work. Today, miners use the advanced machines such as the
Walzenschrämmlader, which moves with six meters per minute, while
eating a 80-centimeter-wide strip in the coal. As successful as the
history of coal mining is so high is the price that had to pay for the
many miners earlier with their health. Quarks & Co explained the risks
of the job involves underground.

Previously, the miners took canaries in a cage to work. The animals
were awake, everything was good. They hung their heads, the miners had
to see to it that they came as quickly as possible to fresh air. The
reason: escaping marsh gas - mostly methane gas. In a certain
concentration of this gas is highly explosive. Today it is extracted,
so as to avoid a so-called fire-damp. Nevertheless, accidents happen
again and again, in China today still die every year thousands of
miners. Quarks & Co explains how the miners live with the constant
threat and what you can do about the explosion.

underground mining buried 45 miners in China rescued

Mining accidents in China: A few thousand Chinese miners die each year.
In China, 45 miners for nearly two days after a serious mine accident
are alive again come to light. They were trapped underground for 40
hours. Eight miners died in the collapse in the Qianqiu mine in
Sanmenxia (Henan Province) on Thursday killed.

Rescue crews were able to recover the trapped miners from a 780 meter
deep shaft. Under blankets lying on stretchers or on its own feet the
miners came back to light, as seen on TV was.

Some miners seemed visibly exhausted, had to be supported under the
arms as they left the pit of helpers. Happy about their rescue some
waved to the rescue teams and journalists, as the official news agency
Xinhua reported. To some workers, who endure since the accident in the
dark were needed to protect against the sudden light of day, they were
blindfolded.

When rescued, the miners were immediately taken to hospitals. At the
time of the accident, 75 miners in the pit. 22 workers were able to
escape or were rescued alive Friday, as Xinhua reported. Shortly
before the mountain can blow, solve for the tensions in the rock and
cave-ins happen suddenly, it had been in the area a light earthquake
of magnitude 2.9, as Xinhua reported.

Two other mining accidents late last week were not considered as good.
In gas explosions in the provinces of Henan and Hunan 47 miners were
killed. Behind the many disasters in China's mines are often stuck
poor security measures, inadequate equipment and lack of supervision
due to nepotism between mine owners and local officials. Several
thousand Chinese miners die each year. The exact number is not known
because many accidents are also covered up

Success story after the end of the coal seam

GER. It is true that it would not give the city the bill without GER
Sophia-Jacoba. Exactly correct but also that it is the city to foot
the bill without GER Sophia-Jacoba still there.

For as on 27 March 1997, the last one was lifted boulders filled with
anthracite coal cars to light, there were no means of GER in the
lights.

Many had the prophesies - and those were not coffee grounds readers
or notorious pessimist, but mere number Deuter: 1986 Sophia-Jacoba had
paid in wages and salaries 225 million D-marks on the accounts of
their employees - that was more than a quarter of the wage bill of the
industry throughout the Heinsberg paid in wages this year. Without the
bill, it seemed, was nothing in GER.

But this 27th March 1997 should apply to the city on the river Rur,
which actually represents a motley construct some very independent
from ten localities, be the first in a stunning development that is
still not completed almost 15 years later. During this time, the face
of the city, however, has changed significantly.

The winding tower still stands at bay 3, he is - now a listed
building - still the symbol of the city. In a mine, you can also enter
again, but over in one day. Former miners have built in their spare
time on the old pit site a mining museum. To view for tourists.

And, as always demonstrable success is headed with a lot of money
from EU and state funds to rebuild the road brought the economy: There
are more social insurance jobs in the city than it was in the days of
coal mining. The 'television department store "QVC has replaced the
bill as the largest employer in the city, about 1,350 people are
employed there.

This was the beginning of the post-carbon era - the one in GER in the
cities along the Roer with "h", who were facing the same economic
problems, the bureaucratic stamp "structural change" or even smoother
"restructuring" imprinted - a classic false start.

Of course, put the Hückelhoven everything they had on the retail and
service industries. A FOC, a factory outlet center, they wanted to
settle in the heart of the city on the colliery site. That was far and
have not: high-quality textiles and other goods there should be at
least 30 percent offered at the suggested retail price and thus buyers
are drawn from far afield to the city. Policy and management were to
agree to it have the philosopher's stone found in terms of structural
change - until all these plans for many reasons, dissolved into air.

In this difficult situation showed that the well-known as a grafter,
people have Hückelhoven very well be a whole lot of creativity:
Instead of the FOC were planted one with the GER center between the
colliery site and the existing town center at the park Hofstraße the
city a new heart , where you step by step einpumpte new life. The park
was redesigned Hofstraße, the Wildauer place with transparent, hugging
the curves were fitted buildings, the old cemetery opened and
renovated into a park. The construction and renovation works are still
far from complete.

As the end for the mining industry with the closure order of 11
November 1991 was in sight, it has turned to very quickly and with all
the raw material that promotes it for days: A training program was
launched, which is unique in the Heinsberg. Within ten years, the city
invested - what ever way the Council was a bipartisan consensus - more
than 60 million euros in the construction, extension or renovation of
schools.

Recently, in the second quarter Ratheim comprehensive school in the
north of the district was inaugurated. The crowd is so big that you
can not accommodate all students. GER is now a young city - and one
whose population is growing, unlike most places in North
Rhine-Westphalia steadily.

The assembly hall was inaugurated in 1973 has blossomed into a first
class venue for both classical and contemporary culture in the
Heinsberg. She is the centerpiece of cultural life and is far beyond
the city limits a name.

No one knows exactly who came up with the idea that there was never a
public discussion about it, they were somehow always there, and they
are a very big pounds, with the can proliferate the city: Around 2,200
free parking in the downtown area are available for potential buyers
in Hückelhoven ready. It exists in no other municipality in the
district Heinberg - and probably not in the wider area. This offer
takes purchasing power in the city that even after closure of the
colliery long suffered from the fact that the residents do their
shopping in Erkelenz or Heinberg made.

Before the Hückelhoven Centre on 1 Opened in October 2004, was the
purchasing power drain of around 40 million € per year, has in recent
years, turned this negative into positive. Today many take Erkelenzer
Heinsberger or after GER for shopping - not least because they have
the annoying parking space is saved there. "GER's has" Postert city
marketing. Sometimes slogans to actually meet.

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