Ronchamp coal mines

The coal mines of Ronchamp are coal mines at Ronchamp in Franche -Comté in eastern France. They extend to the area of ​​three municipalities Ronchamp, Champagney and Magny- Danigon. The more than two centuries ( mid-18th to mid-20th century ) operated coal mines have the landscape, economy and local population trends deeply marked.

Caused by coal mining not only the landscape of the mining basin of Ronchamp and Champagney by the accumulation of mining and underground mines has greatly changed, but also the economy and with the influx of Polish immigrants who brought with them their tradition of mining, the local population. Mining commenced in the tunnels on the flanks of the hills, before 1810 the bay of Saint-Louis was dug. It was the first major mining activity in this mining area at all. The coal seams ranging deeper and deeper, and to be successful, ( Ronchamp Société civile des Houillères de ) finally dug the mining company twice as deep tunnels, as they existed until now in France; the shaft you Magny reached 1878, the sole at 694 m and the shaft Arthur de Buyer at 1010 meters in 1900. During the nationalization of the mines in 1946, the active mines and the thermal power plant were transferred to Electricité de France.

After closure in 1958, the mines were secured, the infrastructure mostly demolished and retrained workers. Later, a museum and two clubs, who pushed for the memory of the mining history and the preservation of individual sites and the possibility of the visit emerged.

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The shaft Sainte -Marie in 2007.