Guided tour of the former potash mine

Name: Guided tour of the former potash mine
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Ancienne mine de potasse - Carreau Rodolphe

Experience a journey to the heart of the miner’s profession.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

A contribution of €10 per person is requested, in the form of a donation in support of the Rodolphe Group. School visits and children from 6 to 16 years: 5€ per person. Free entry for children under 6 years and members of the Association.

Registration

groupe-rodolphe@orange.fr 06 27 70 63 43

©Groupe Rodolphe

Experience a journey to the heart of the miner’s profession.

The passionate miners of the Rodolphe Group will make you discover the epic of the Potash Mines of Alsace while bringing the testimony of their experience at the bottom of the mine. With our guide miners, you will follow the steps of the miner through the reconstruction of the extraction sites from the bottom of the mine. The tour lasts about 2h30, it also allows to discover the surface installations that allowed the processing of the ore, as well as its two frames, Rodolphe 1 and 2 with the two extraction machines of 1912 and 1928 perfectly restored and in working condition.
On this occasion, visitors will also be able to discover a complete and unique set of mining machines in France from the 1950s to 2004.

About the location

Ancienne mine de potasse - Carreau Rodolphe

Route de Guebwiller, 68840 Pulversheim

Haut-Rhin
Grand Est

A historic site of the potash in Alsace: Joseph Vogt is an industrialist implied(involved) in research(search) and exploitation(operation) of the oil in Alsace. The first mining company(society), Gewerkschaft Amélie comes into the world in 1906\. The Appearances(Mines) of Kali saint Theresa (KST), French company(society) of right(straight) German in 1910 will follow. The appearance(mine) which is going to occupy more than 1000 people, in day and at the bottom, stops its activity in 1976, after the extraction of 39,5 million tons of raw ore. Both wells are filled in in 1984\. The Ecomuseum comes purchaser of the site to safeguard it. Are kept(preserved): two shoring and two machines of extraction, two sheds of storage, an old(former) shed of crystallisation, the mill, the building(ship) of mixtures and the tours(towers,ballots) of load of the ore as well as railroad tracks harming(serving) the site.
The Group association Rodolphe presents a project declined in four poles(centres): ● a pole(centre) works: restoration(catering) and interview(maintenance) of machines and installations of the site ● a tourist and cultural pole(centre) ● an educational pole(centre) with documentary centre, welcome(reception) of school, students, researchers, historians, publications and workshops(studios) of heritage ● an economic pole(centre) to promote certain buildings(ships).