Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until 23 December 1986.Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
- Email: info@zollverein.de
- Type: Park
- Description: large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Also known as: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ruhr Museum and Red Dot Design Museum.
Ruhr Museum
Museum
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ruhr Museum, formerly the Ruhrland Museum, is a diverse natural history and cultural history museum for the Ruhrgebiet in Essen, Germany. The sponsor is the Stiftung Ruhr Museum. The director since 2012 is the historian Heinrich Theodor Grütter. Ruhr Museum is situated 330 metres southeast of Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex.
Red Dot Design Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Red Dot Design Museum is situated 430 metres east of Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex.
Heilig-Geist-Kirche
Arts center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Heilig-Geist-Kirche is an arts center, which is situated 1 km northeast of Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pestalozzidorf „Im Grund“ and Kolonie Hegemannshof.
Pestalozzidorf „Im Grund“
Neighborhood
Photo: Es-Punkt-Ge-Punkt, CC0.
Pestalozzidorf „Im Grund“ is a neighborhood.
Kolonie Hegemannshof
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kolonie Hegemannshof is a neighborhood.
Altenessen
Suburb
Altenessen is a northern borough of the city of Essen, Germany. Officially it is divided into the two boroughs of Altenessen-Nord and Altenessen-Süd. Because of its size, Altenessen was divided into two parts, when it was incorporated into the city of Essen in 1915.
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
- Categories: coal mine, industrial heritage site, heritage site, tourism, recreation area, tourist attraction, and historic site
- Location: Essen, Düsseldorf, Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
51.48805° or 51° 29′ 17″ northLongitude
7.03892° or 7° 2′ 20″ eastOpen location code
9F39F2QQ+6HOpenStreetMap ID
way 35100527OpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q122026
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منجم فحم تسول فيرآين”
- Arabic: “منجم فحم تسول فيرأين”
- Basque: “Zollverein ikatz-meategiaren industriagunea”
- Catalan: “Complex industrial de la mina de carbó de Zollverein”
- Chinese: “關稅同盟煤礦工業建築群”
- Croatian: “Industrijski kompleks Zollverein”
- Czech: “Uhelný důl Zollverein”
- Danish: “Zollverein kulgrube”
- Dutch: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Esperanto: “Minejo Zollverein”
- Finnish: “Zollvereinin hiilikaivoksen teollisuuskompleksi”
- French: “Complexe industriel de la mine de charbon de Zollverein”
- Galician: “Complexo industrial da mina de carbón de Zollverein en Essen”
- Georgian: “ცოლფერაინის სამრეწველო კომპლექსი”
- German: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Greek: “Βιομηχανικό συγκρότημα Ανθρακωρυχείων του Τσόλφεραϊν”
- Hebrew: “מכרות צולפריין”
- Hindi: “ज़ोलवेरिन कोयला खान औद्योगिक परिसर”
- Hungarian: “Zollverein Szénbánya”
- Italian: “Miniere di carbone dello Zollverein”
- Japanese: “ツォルフェアアイン炭鉱業遺産群”
- Korean: “체체 촐버레인”
- Korean: “촐페어아인 탄광”
- Luxembourgish: “Industriekomplex vun der Kuelegrouf Zollverein”
- Maltese: “Kumpless Industrijali tal-Minjieri tal-Faħam taz-Zollverein”
- Maltese: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Maltese: “Zollverein”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zollverein kullgruve- og koksverkområde”
- Norwegian: “Zollverein kullgruve- og koksverkområde”
- Persian: “مجموعه صنعتی معدن زغال سنگ زولورین”
- Polish: “Kompleks przemysłowy kopalni i koksowni Zollverein”
- Portuguese: “Complexo Industrial da Mina de Carvão de Zollverein”
- Russian: “Шахта Цольферайн”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Industrijski kompleks Zollverein”
- Slovenian: “Industrijski kompleks premogovnika Zollverein”
- Slovenian: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Spanish: “Complejo industrial de la mina de carbon de Zollverein”
- Spanish: “Complejo industrial de la mina de carbón de Zollverein”
- Swedish: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Turkish: “Zeche Zollverein”
- Ukrainian: “Шахта «Цольферайн»”
- Ukrainian: “Шахта Цольферайн”
- Vietnamese: “Mỏ và nhà máy luyện than cốc Zollverein”
- Vietnamese: “Tổ hợp công nghiệp mỏ than Zollverein”
- Western Frisian: “Zeche Zollverein”
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