The best family-friendly hikes and walks in Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis

A coal mine that was not registered in the post-war period.

Attractively designed tower. It would be nice if someone would open a restaurant in the small neighboring building.

Landmark and milestone on the 3 Towers Trail.

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https://www.ruhrgebiet-industriekultur.de/muttental This mining hiking trail was designed between 1972 and 1977

In 1783, the two brothers Henrich Johann and Henrich Oberste Frielinghaus mined a coal bank that stretched from the Muttenbach eastwards beneath the Dickenberg in the Muttental. The mining area, which had been expanded to include another seam, was granted the name Jupiter in 1789. A mining tunnel was driven into the mountain, through which the two seams Jupiter 1 and 2 were mined. However, this operation was also suspended for a long time because the transport route to the Ruhr was too complicated. But after the Fortuna tunnel resumed operations in 1830, the two mines were connected by a crosscut. The Jupiter 1 mine sunk the Juno shaft in 1847. At first, the coal was mined in the 20 meter deep shaft using a hand winch. The Juno shaft was sunk a further 21 meters to the St. Johannes Erbstollen floor in 1856. A horse-drawn sledgehammer was also built on the shaft. The sledgehammer shaft was in use for many years and was the last of its kind in this area until it was temporarily closed in 1887. Many years later, the small Jupiter mine operated gleaning mining at various locations in the Muttental. Its first mining site in May 1934 was east of the Muttenbach. The entrepreneur Georg Horst had coal residues mined there, which he transported to the surrounding area and sold. The mine was put back into operation on January 1, 1954. A ton-long shaft was available for mining; this was about 60 meters deep and reached into the Finefrau seam. The shaft was equipped with a new wooden frame. Mining also took place in the Renate mine shaft for a time. In the same year, 68 miners mined 11,151 tons of hard coal. On July 11, 1955, a mining accident occurred at the mine, after which the Jupiter II mine was closed down. The relics from the gleaning mining are still there and can be visited at any time. The remains of the coal loading station shown here consist of a cable winch, a rotary tipper and the tunnel entrance of the old Jupiter mine. It was restored in 1979 and is now station 10 on the mining hiking trail. Source and link to the full article: https://www.kdwupper.de/wiege_des_bergbaus_muttental.html

The water tower on the Kermelberg in Witten is also called the “molar tooth” because its broad, massive shape and the cylindrical water tank with protruding elements are reminiscent of a human molar.

The Muttenbach is a just under 7½ kilometre long, southern and left-bank tributary of the Ruhr in the south of the city of Witten in North Rhine-Westphalia between the districts of Bommern and Herbede. It shapes the Muttental, which is now accessible to tourists via the Muttental mining hiking trail.The name component Mutte (Netherlands for sow, a female domestic pig) refers to the former forest grazing use in this area (cf. acorn fattening).The Muttenbach rises at an altitude of around 200 m above sea level in the "In der Mutte" field, south of the Durchholz district of the Witten district of Herbede. It flows in a north-northeast direction through the Muttental, curves to the left and finally flows east of Herbede at an altitude of around 80 m above sea level. NHN from the left into the Ruhr.The approximately 7.4 km long course of the Muttenbach ends approximately 119 meters below its source, so it has an average bed gradient of about 16 ‰.In the years 1906 to 1910, the "Muttenbach Valley Melioration Cooperative" carried out measures to improve the meadows. For this purpose, small concrete weirs with flat slide valves and branch channels were built in order to flood the meadows in the spring.The first hard coal in the Ruhr area is said to have been found in the Muttental. Coal mining began around 1510 in open-cast mines, and the first documented mention of it can be found in 1552 in the court records of the nearby Hardenstein Castle. The historical role of the Muttental is today represented by the Muttental mining hiking trail created in 1972, the Zeche Nachtigall industrial museum opened in 2003, the miners' prayer house built between 1830 and 1831, and various industrial history museum sites. Other sights near the valley are the ruins of Hardenstein Castle, Steinhausen Castle, and the Zeche Theresia mine and narrow-gauge railway museum. Source and link to the full article: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muttenbach_(Ruhr)