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The disused coal mine Zeche Zollern in Dortmund is one of the most architecturally remarkable pits in the Ruhr area. The park-like facility with its impressive Art Nouveau buildings still shows today that it was built as a model colliery around 1900 and was intended to show both economic strength and progress.
We visited the facility with our friends from Herne, the photographers Renate and Jürgen Saibic, whom we met many years ago on Easter Island in Chile.
Today, the facility is one of eight locations of the LWL Industrial Museum, which also maintains this shaft facility as part of the Route of Industrial Culture in the Ruhr Area. More information: Wikipedia
Picture 1: The machine hall of the Zollern colliery with its impressive Art Nouveau gate
Picture 2: The two winding towers of the Zollern 2/4 colliery in Bövinghausen
Picture 3: Building of the Zollern colliery
Picture 4: Art Nouveau architecture
Picture 5: The photographer Jürgen Saibic in the exhibition of the decentralized LWL industrial museum
Picture 6: In the horse stables of the restaurant at the Zollern colliery
