LWL-Museum Zeche Zollern

Aktuelle udstillinger

Om museet

The Zollern II/IV colliery was built from 1898 onward as a prestigious showcase facility of the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. Architect Paul Knobbe gave the surface buildings historicist brick facades reminiscent of northern German Gothic, which earned the mine the nickname "Schloss der Arbeit" (Palace of Work). The machine hall, completed around 1902, is by contrast a steel-frame structure; Berlin architect Bruno Möhring gave it an Art Nouveau portal with colored glass windows. The hall housed the first electrically powered main-shaft winding engine in European mining.

Coal production ended in 1955, the shafts were filled in by 1967, and by the late 1960s the site faced demolition. Thanks to committed preservationists, the machine hall was listed as a protected monument at the end of 1969 – the first industrial building in Germany to receive this status. This marked the beginning of a new way of thinking about the industrial heritage of the Ruhr region.

In 1979, the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Westphalia-Lippe regional authority) founded its decentralized industrial museum, which today comprises eight sites, with Zeche Zollern as its headquarters. After a lengthy restoration, the permanent exhibition opened in 1999, presenting the social and cultural history of Ruhr mining in original buildings such as the wage hall, the miners' changing house, and the lamp room. The colliery is an anchor point of the Route of Industrial Heritage and the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Højdepunkter

• Machine hall with Art Nouveau portal by Bruno Möhring
• Brick facades of the "Schloss der Arbeit" (Palace of Work) by Paul Knobbe
• First industrial building in Germany to be listed as a monument (1969)
• Exhibitions in the wage hall, miners' changing house, and lamp room
• Underground experience MONTANIUM (guided tours only)

Permanente udstillinger

• Maschinenhalle – The Art Nouveau machine hall with its historic machinery is considered an icon of industrial heritage.
• Geschichte der Zeche Zollern – Exhibition in the Old Administration Building on the origins and development of the model colliery, with a model and inclusive stations.
• MONTANIUM – Underground experience that can only be visited on guided tours (€2 surcharge).

Ejer

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Gratis entré: Free admission on selected free-entry days of the LWL museums.

Free admission with the LWL-MuseumsCard, LVR-Museumskarte, German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund) ID, or ICOM card. The Easy German (Leichte Sprache) text on the website still lists older prices (€5, reduced €2.50, groups €4.50) and free admission for companions; the prices entered here are those from the main page.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog
• Letlæste tilbud
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Elevators to all visitor areas, accessible restrooms in the Old Workshop and wage hall, three accessible parking spaces, two loaner wheelchairs and a rollator in the foyer. Inclusive exhibition in the Old Administration Building with tactile floor guidance system, audio stations, objects to touch, and texts in Braille. Tactile tour "Bergbau mit Händen begreifen" and tours with German Sign Language (DGS) interpretation can be booked (request at least four weeks in advance); website texts in Easy German (Leichte Sprache) and DGS.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
• Legeplads / legehjørne
• Børnefødselsdage

Monthly family Sunday for children aged 6 and up with a family tour followed by crafts in the children's workshop. Free quiz sheets for the colliery grounds and the special exhibition. Playground with sand and water area behind the beer garden, picnic tables. Free program for elementary school children during the summer holidays; children's birthday parties for ages 5–7 and 8–12.

Transport & parkering

For GPS, enter "Rhader Weg 5" (parking lot).

Service & spisesteder

• Café: findes ikke
• Restaurant
• Museumsbutik

Restaurant "Pferdestall" with beer garden (Tue–Fri 13:00–22:00, Sat–Sun 12:00–22:00, closed Mon). Museum shop. Dogs on a leash on the outdoor grounds; only assistance dogs in buildings.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester: findes ikke
• Firmaarrangementer
• Bryllupper / vielser

Op til 689 personer.

For corporate and cultural events: machine hall (up to 689 people, unheated), Magazin/event hall (up to 300 people), wage hall (from 18:00), and four seminar rooms (up to 20 people each). Private parties only in the Pferdestall restaurant rooms. Civil wedding ceremonies in the wage hall (up to 100 guests) or the Old Administration Building (up to 40 guests).

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