LWL Industry Museum Mine Nachtigall, Technology museum in Witten, Germany.
The LWL Industry Museum Mine Nachtigall is an open-air coal mining museum in Witten with accessible tunnels, a machine house, and preserved extraction equipment. The site demonstrates the layered extraction process and the machinery miners used daily.
Horizontal galleries were dug into this site over 300 years ago as surface-level mining began. The shift to deeper vertical shafts like the Neptun shaft in 1832 marked a major change in mining technology.
The place reveals how coal mining shaped daily life and work in the region for generations. Visitors can observe the physical traces of this industry woven into the local landscape and settlement patterns.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday and accessible via Nachtigallstraße. Visitors should wear comfortable shoes since the site tour involves several changes in elevation.
From 1829, the Muttenthalbahn was one of Europe's earliest railways and used horses to haul coal from here to factories along the Wupper and Ennepe rivers. This line pioneered early rail transport in the region.
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