LWL industrial museum in Witten's Muttental valley with an early Ruhr colliery, a brickworks ring kiln and the Nachtigallstollen show mine.
3. oktober 2026 – 13. marts 2027
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Hard coal is documented as having been mined on the Hettberg near Witten from 1714, initially by farmers using adits and, from 1743, under the noble von Elverfeldt family. From 1832 the Neptun shaft marked the move to deep mining; steam engines from Friedrich Harkort's workshop tamed the inflowing water. In the 1850s and 1860s, the Vereinigte Nachtigall Tiefbau colliery, with several hundred miners, was one of the region's large mines, and its Hercules shaft reached a depth of 450 meters in 1876. Water problems and bankruptcy led to its closure in 1892.
That same year, the building contractor Wilhelm Dünkelberg acquired the site. He built a steam-powered brickworks whose double ring kiln, from 1897, fired up to eleven million bricks a year above the old Hercules shaft, and he had a tunnel driven through the Hettberg to transport the shale clay – today's Nachtigallstollen. After the brickworks closed in 1963, the site fell into decay and was last used as a car scrapyard.
On the initiative of local citizens, heritage conservation authorities and the city, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) incorporated the site into its decentralized Westphalian Industrial Museum in 1979. After excavations and restoration, the museum opened in 2003. Exhibitions in the ring kiln vault, on the brickworks, on the small postwar mines and on coal shipping on the Ruhr open up three centuries of industrial history; the tunnel has been developed as a show mine since 1990. Since 2014 the colliery has also housed an information center of the Nationaler GeoPark Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr National GeoPark).
| Voksne | 6 € |
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| Nedsat pris | 3 €Recipients of benefits under SGB II and XII (German social welfare codes), students up to age 30, apprentices, volunteer service participants, people with a disability rating (GdB) of 50 or more, holders of the Ehrenamtskarte NRW (volunteer card) |
| Børn og unge | gratisgratis til og med 17 år · Children and young people up to 17 and school classes visiting as a class are free. |
| Pensionister | –No senior discount listed. |
| Personer med handicap | 3 €Reduced admission with a disability rating (GdB) of 50 or more. |
| Studerende og elever | 3 €Students up to age 30, apprentices. |
| Grupper (fra 16 pers.) | 5 € pr. personAdults in groups of 16 or more. Group guided tours plus admission: Nachtigallstollen or museum tour €45, Große Bergwerkstour (Grand Mine Tour) €65 (max. 10 or 20 people respectively). |
| Public tunnel tour (adults, plus admission) | 3 €Children €1.50 |
| LWL-MuseumsCard (annual pass for 31 LWL and LVR museums) | 50 €Reduced €15; “Ich und Du” (You and Me) pass for two adults €70 |
Free admission with the LWL-MuseumsCard, LVR-Museumskarte, a Deutscher Museumsbund (German Museums Association) ID, ICOM card and the RuhrtopCard (once).
Certified under “Reisen für Alle” (Travel for All). Above-ground tours are suitable for wheelchair users; the show mine is not accessible for people with walking disabilities, walking aids or wheelchairs. Two rollators available to borrow, short guide in Easy Language at the ticket desk, digital media guide via QR code. The LWL regularly offers tours with sign language interpretation in its museums.
Velegnet til børn og familier
| Entré for børn | gratis til og med 17 år |
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Family Sunday on the 1st Sunday of every month with a free hands-on program and mining tours for children aged 4 to 6. With the "Püngelsack" (at the ticket desk), families can explore the grounds on their own; playground with a stream, boats can be borrowed at the ticket desk. Tunnel tours from age 6.
Witten Hauptbahnhof · 20 min. til fods
Take the S 5 or RB 40 to Witten Hauptbahnhof, then walk via Herbeder Straße, Im Sundern, and the Nachtigallbrücke (approx. 20 minutes).
Parkering muligt · 18 min. til fods · 1,3 km til indgangen
Visitor parking lot "Parkplatz Nachtigallstraße", from there a 1.3 km walk to the museum. Directly at the entrance there are only 7 parking spaces, 2 of them for people with mobility impairments.
By car: A 43, exit Witten-Heven, via Herbeder Straße and Ruhrstraße (B 235); after the Ruhrbrücke, turn onto Nachtigallstraße.
Planlæg ruteBeer garden, bistro, and café "Waggon zur Nachtigall" (March 1–October 31, 2026, Tue–Sun 11:00–18:00). Wi-Fi throughout the museum.
Civil wedding ceremonies in the Nachtigallstollen (about 60 m inside the hill, max. 20 people; tunnel use €120 plus fees of the Witten registry office). Receptions on the outdoor grounds or in the covered ring kiln area through the in-house catering.
Forespørgsel & detaljer| Rundvisninger | ja · varighed ca. 60 min. |
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| Audioguide | ja |
| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Godt at vide | Tunnel tours approx. 1 hour, max. 10 people, ages 6 and up; sturdy shoes required, in the tunnel approx. 14 °C (summer) or 8 °C (winter), standing height only 1.40 m in places. "Große Bergwerkstour" (2 hours, ages 10 and up) on select dates. Book group tours at least 10 days in advance (tel. 02302 93664-28). |
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