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Zum Bergwerk
59077 Hamm-Herringen
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51° 39′ 31″ N, 7° 45′ 53.14″ O
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Vom Bahnhof Hamm (Hst. "Neue Bahnhofstraße") mit Bus 3 bis "Zeche Heinrich Robert"
Coalmining activities inevitably involve a lot of dead rock and waste material being brought to the surface. True, German collieries have always been looking for ways of re-using the waste material. Nonetheless there has always been a large amount of rock consisting of slate and sandstone which has to be dumped somewhere. As so often, the coalmining industry has found unusual solutions in order to avoid environmental damage, or at least minimise it with inventive concepts. One of these is to pile up and redesign spoil tips like the Kissinger Heights, a 55 metre high tip covering an area of 39 hectares. It was piled up between 1974 and 1998 and after it was completed it was given a total of 17 kilometres of walking trails, and planted with half a million trees and bushes before being handed over to the general public.
From the top of the Kissinger Heights visitors have a fine view of the Bergwerk Ost, the colliery which was responsible for the tip. The colliery itself was created in 1969 from the fusion of several independent smaller mines, including Heinrich Robert, Königsborn, Werne, Monopol, Grimberg 3/4, Victoria 1/2 and Haus Aden. It was given the name Bergwerk Ost (lit: Colliery East) because of its position in the east of the Ruhrgebiet. Since it began operations shortly before the turn of the 20th century, it has produced around 470 million tons of coal. The administrative headquarters, and the spot where the coal is brought to the surface and processed, are at the Heinrich Robert colliery in Hamm.
