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Stiftung Industriedenkmal- pflege und Geschichtskultur
Emscherallee 11
44369 Dortmund
Fon 02 31 | 93 11 22 33
www.industriedenkmal-stiftung.de
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51° 32' 22" N, 7° 24' 51" O
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Von Dortmund Hbf
(U-Stadtbahn-Ebene) mit Stadtbahn U47 Richtung Westerfilde bis "Parsevalstraße", dann ca. 5 Minuten Fußweg
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April bis Oktober:
Di - So 10-18 Uhr
November bis März:
Di- So 10-16 Uhr
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The Hansa colliery, which had a railway connection with the Cologne-Minden line, went into operation in 1870. Some time later, in 1895, a smallish coking plant was erected on the site.
The new large-scale Hansa coking plant was built between 1927 and 1928 as a result of radical rationalisation measures and company mergers in heavy industry. It was one of 17 central coking plants that were built in the Ruhrgebiet between 1926 and 1929. Hansa had been merged with the Gelsenkirchen Mining Company in 1926 to create the huge United Steelworks company. The main reason for building the new Hansa coking plant was the favourable location of the nearby "Dortmunder Union" steel mill, which also belonged to the United Steelworks.
The new coking plant replaced the out of date sites at the Hansa, Tremonia, Zollern and Germania collieries. It took it is coking coal from nearby collieries and processed it into a blast furnace coke for the "Dortmunder Union" steel mill and later for the "Phoenix" works in the Dortmund suburb of Hörde.
Hansa went into operation in 1928 with the daily output capacity of 2200 tons of coke. In the course of the next decade the coking plant was expanded on two occasions, once between 1938 and 42 and again at the end of the 1960s. During peak years over 5000 tons of coke left the plant every day.
Despite the continual series of rebuilding measures the coking plant has basically been preserved as it was, and is now a testimonial to the rational organisation of the works along to parallel lines: the so-called "black side" consists of the plants and buildings used for producing coke, and the "Whiteside" contains buildings used for making subsidiary products and for the preparation of cooking gas.
