German Mining Museum

The German Mining Museum Bochum ( DBM), with around 365 700 visitors (2012 ) per year, one of the most visited museums in Germany. It is the largest mining museum in the world and the Research Institute of mining history.

About -day exhibitions of about 12,000 m² and a faithful demonstration mine underneath the museum area with 2.5 km length (currently accessible 850 m) to give visitors an insight into the world of mining. Research interests of the researchers on the history and technology of the Mont property, documentation and protection of cultural property. The museum is as a research institution member of the Leibniz Association.

Carriers are the DMT -Gesellschaft mbH for teaching and education as well as the city of Bochum.

The budget of the facility is 2013 € 10,555,000, of which bear the federal and state each 39%, city of Bochum and DMT -LB 11% each. The DBM has 140 employees (2012 ).

Friends of the Museum is the registered association Association of Friends of Arts and Culture ( VFKK ), who also edits the journal publishes the gate. The German Mining Museum in Bochum is part of the Route of Industrial Heritage and housed the largest of the five visitor centers, which functioned in the Capital of Culture year in 2010 as tourist hubs in the Ruhr Metropolis, and since then central starting points for inquiries into the whole Ruhr area are.

History

The beginnings of the museum date back to the 1860s, when the Westphalian Berggewerkschaftskasse ( WBK ) a permanent exhibition mountain Structural utensils in Bochum einrichtete, which mainly served the mountain school. In the late 1920s were developed by representatives of WBK and the city of Bochum reason for the founding of a public mining museum.

The articles of incorporation for the Historical Museum of the mining industry was closed on April 1, 1930 between the City of Bochum and the CSEC; as the first hall of the museum was the old cattle slaughter hall of the disused slaughterhouse Bochum. On the site of the slaughterhouse, a new building of the museum building was performed with additional exhibition space in 1935 to designs by Fritz Schupp and Heinrich Holzapfel. In 1936 began the construction of the intuition mine.

In 1943, the not yet completed museum buildings were largely destroyed by Allied air raids, the demonstration mine for the air raid rebuilt.

1946, the museum was reopened with a small exhibition. In the 1950s, the museum was rebuilt and expanded in 1960, the lines of intuition mine were extended to a total length of 2,510 meters.

In the years 1973 and 1974, the headframe of the disused colliery Germania from Dortmund - Marten was moved to Bochum. The reaction was paid from the budget of the North Rhine -Westphalian Ministry of Culture. In 1973, Gerd Weisgerber museum staff who built the mining Archaeological Department.

In 1976, the previous mining museum in German Mining Museum Bochum ( DBM) was renamed in 1977 it was used by the Bund- Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion ( BLK ) is recognized as a research museum and included in the joint research funding from federal and state. It is now one of the institutes of the Blue List.

In the following years the museum has been constantly expanded and supplemented by further research topics.

On 6 December 2009, the Black Diamond, an extension for special exhibitions opened. The building with its striking deep black and sparkling in sunlight facade, designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects, presents itself as a section through a tunnel system dar.

Rainer Slotta was from 1987 to 2012 director of the museum. Since May 2012, he Stefan Brüggerhoff the museum.

Museum

Exhibits

On an exhibition space of 12,000 square meters, the development of mining from the prehistoric period to the present day is shown to the visitors. The various technical areas of mining as well as its cultural and social aspects are presented thematically and chronologically.

These exhibits such as:

• An approximately seven -ton root- branched stem residue of a shed tree, which comes from the coal strata of Piesbergs near Osnabrück. With an overall height of approximately 2.5 meters and a circumference of about 5 meters is the tree one of the largest preserved objects of its kind from the Carboniferous period.
• The original of a briquette press from the year 1901., The steam-powered single-line slider-crank press with a weight of 18 tons and a capacity of 4.2 tons briquettes per hour was decommissioned in 1985 and been appropriated to the Museum of the Rhine Braun AG.

• A used in the well production, the so-called bobbin carrier. Their characteristic feature is the use of flat ropes. The original shown was built around 1905 and initially for sinking, then used until 1949 for coal from the Zeche Hannover in Bochum- Hordel.
• In the machine basement of the museum are also numerous mining machines that can not be exhibited in the upper floors due to their size and weight.
• In the entrance area of the extension is a Black Diamond Black Diamond weighing issued by 3,401 carats, which was in 2011 from a Bochum jeweler donated to the museum.

Special

There are regular special exhibitions. , March 8, 2011 to February 19, 2012 the special exhibition Treasures of the Andes was - Chile's copper for the world shown. The exhibition focuses on both the importance of copper for the ( cultural) history of mankind from the beginning until today, as well as the economic importance of Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile ( CODELCO ) in the national and international level as well as their days and civil engineering equipment, belonging to the white world largest of its kind.

2006 Courrières mining disaster had been addressed, in 2007 there has been an exhibition of paintings on Nagorno- works by Alexander Calvelli, 2008, there was a special exhibition on NEAT ( New Rail Alps transversals ).

Visitor Mine

A system of routes and struts in about 20 meters deep and a length of about 2.5 kilometers explained with nearly realistic conditions the tunneling and the promotion of coal, as well as some security aspects. The lines, however, have never served the extraction of mineral resources and have only been created for the purpose of demonstration.

Since 1995 there is to see in the demonstration mine a model of the last German pit pony Tobias.

Visiting the intuition mine is only partially for museum guests with mobility problems or wheelchair; Monitoring and assistance are underground absolutely necessary, but can be made with prior telephone appointment.

Förderturm

The headframe, originally part of the Zeche Germania in Dortmund, in good weather provides a broad view of Bochum and the Ruhr Area. In bad weather, such as strong wind, it will remain closed for safety reasons.

It dates from the years 1938/39, and was also designed by Fritz Schupp. It is 71.4 meters high and 650 tons. The viewing platforms are located, accessible by elevator to reach to 50 m and, on further steps, in 62 m height.

Location

• North of the city center of Bochum, near the A40.
• Address: German Mining Museum in Bochum, at the Mining Museum 28, 44791 Bochum
• Public transport: U -Bahn line U35, Herne - Bochum, stop German Mining Museum

Research

The German Mining Museum in Bochum operates research on mining history, which are summarized in the focal points of history and art of the Mont property, documentation and protection of cultural property. The research activities within the two areas are divided by chronological, regional or thematic criteria in research fields and core issues.

The research on the prehistoric and early historic Mont property based on archaeological investigations in connection with scientific method. The consideration of the medieval mineral extraction, processing and smelting her and her trading closes with intensive research on the archaeological fieldwork. The modern mining history is captured in its technical, economic as well as socio-historical implications. The exploration of cultural monuments (especially technical monuments ) is a further focus.

Together with the Ruhr -Universität Bochum operates the DBM 2011-2014 a Research Training Group on the topic of raw materials, innovation and technology of ancient cultures ( Ritak ). In this Leibniz Graduate School eight dissertations to promote that deal with the influence of the extraction and processing of mineral raw materials on the cultural and economic development of the people. Topics will include:

• Prestige metals in ceremonial tombs of the Copper and Early Bronze Age: origins and metallurgical knowledge
• Central Asia as a raw material supplier to the Bronze Age ( Andronovo cultures )
• West Mediterranean metals trade and technology transfer of the Phoenicians
• Silver and lead from Laurion
• The Hellweg Zone: Technology and commodity transfer between the Roman Empire and the Germanic
• Hedeby metals
• Development and flowering of the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains

Mining Historical Documentation Centre

With the mining archive was founded on 1 July 1969, the Institute has a central historical archive of mining in Germany. The archive includes ldm in 4000. 220 stocks from the 18th century to the present day from almost all German coal and lignite mining areas. In 2002, the mining archive was awarded by the FOW price Industry Archive of the year. Since 2007, the Archives also manages the museum's collection and is called Montan Historical Documentation Center.

Characteristic of the work of the archive was the director Evelyn Kroker.