The year 2018 is slowly drawing to a close and a truly historic moment will take place on 21.12.2018 at the Prosper Haniel Colliery in Bottrop. That is when the last shift is driven on the Pütt and thus marks the official end of German hard coal mining.
A little melancholy is mixed with our pride in being able to equip the central closing event with stage and event technology for our customer RAG. After all, the age of coal only made the industrialization of our entire continent possible 250 years ago.
An era is therefore coming to an end when there is a “shift in the shaft” in the truest sense of the word on 21.12.2018. ARTE has a 2-part documentary on hard coal mining worth seeing in its media library:
