Anyone on their way to the top of the Colline Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to visit le Corbusier's chapel will come across another concrete gem at the foot of the mountain, namely the headframe of the Puits Sainte-Marie coal mine.
Anyone on their way to the top of the Colline Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to visit le Corbusier's chapel will come across another concrete gem at the foot of the mountain, namely the headframe of the Puits Sainte-Marie coal mine.
The French Vosges is full of deserted ski slopes due to the lack of snow. Fifteen ski areas have been closed in recent years, yet they have left some traces.
Tête des Faux is a 1208-meter-high mountain in the French Vosges, and its large stature also explains the strategic role it played during the First World War.
In 1904, potassium deposits were discovered in French Alsace. Potassium, or potash, is one of the most essential nutrients for plants, together with nitrogen and phosphorus. That is why potash was brought out en masse to make fertilizer.
The Prosper coal mine was the longest active in the German Ruhr area. The mining giant was named after its director, Duke Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg, in the nineteenth century.
The overgrown ruins and collapsed roofs of the French Arthur de Buyer coal mine at no point suggest that a French record was broken here in 1900.
When the Quesnoy coal mine closed in 1972, it was the last active mine in the Belgian Center coal region.
A kilometre-long canal tunnel was dug at the end of the nineteenth century to allow larger ships to sail on the canal.
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