Schmitten adit, Schmittenzug mine, Niederhausen, Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Impression of the larger dimensioned mine workings from the 1930s when the Deutsches Reich tried to achieve independency from the Hg world market by mining numerous (also small scale) deposits which had been mined for centuries before and abandoned. Summer 2007.
© Roger Lang 2008
This is the entrance of the Schmittenstollen visitors mine, summer 2007.
One of the galleries of the 1930s.
Underground impression, summer 2007. Please note the ancient workings at the top center of the image, where an old gallry of the 15/16th century was cut by more recent works (1930s).