Industrial heritage
former coal mine with a cage descent to the 320 m level and underground mining museum routes
Industrial heritage
a 46 m water tower from 1909 with a viewing platform and the interactive CARBONEUM coal exhibition
Industrial heritage
a chain bathhouse from 1890 in the Queen Louise Adit complex
Industrial heritage
underground workings of a mine and a drainage adit with an underground boat route
Industrial heritage
former shaft of the Queen Louise Mine with a viewing tower and a steam engine from 1915
Industrial heritage
Zabrze mine with a coking plant, from which the Maciej shaft complex survives
Industrial heritage
a former mine with the Carnall shaft, a chain-hanging bathhouse and underground routes
Industrial heritage in Zabrze: Guido Mine, the Queen Louise Adit, the Carnall Shaft and a water tower with a viewing platform. Seven places.
Zabrze grew on coal and now shows it in several places at once. Most sites belong to the Coal Mining Museum, so a visit can be planned as one route through two large complexes and several individual buildings.
It is best to combine the two main complexes: the Guido Historic Coal Mine at 3 Maja 93, where routes descend to levels of 170 and 320 metres, and the Queen Louise Adit at Wolności 410, with a boat trip through underground workings. The water tower from 1909, about 46 metres tall, completes the set.
More places of this kind are gathered under industry and technology in Silesia, and the city as a whole is covered in the overview of Zabrze.
The Guido Historic Coal Mine is a former hard coal mine and part of the Coal Mining Museum. Since July 2020 it has belonged to the Monument of History covering the Zabrze mines, next to Queen Louise and the underground of the Main Key Hereditary Adit. Going underground suits a rainy day and an outing with family.
The water tower at Zamoyskiego 2, raised in 1907-1909, has an expressionist form. Inside runs the CARBONEUM exhibition devoted to coal, and higher up a viewing platform with a restaurant. For many years it supplied water to a large part of the city.
The Queen Louise Adit is nearly five kilometres of underground passages left by the former mine and linked to the Main Key Hereditary Adit. Part of the route is covered by boat. It is one of three places in the complex, and the other two are next door.
The Queen Louise Mine buildings are the surface part of a plant that produced coal until the end of the 1990s. The mine was founded in 1791 as the Royal one. Beside it stands the chain bathhouse of 1890, a brick building that served as sanitary facilities for miners and is listed as a monument.
The Carnall Shaft is a former drainage shaft of the mine, sunk in the mid 19th century. Today its tower is 31.5 metres tall and has a viewing point, and this is where visitors go down to the adit. The shaft is named after Rudolf von Carnall.
The Concordia mine on Hagera Street worked from 1841 or 1843 until the 1990s. It was founded by Karl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck. Buildings above the Maciej shaft survived and are treated as a monument, best viewed from outside.
Start at the Guido mine, then move to Queen Louise and the Carnall Shaft, and leave the water tower for last as a viewpoint. On the way, look at museums in Zabrze and historic sites in Zabrze.
Yes. The Guido Historic Coal Mine has routes at levels of 170 and 320 metres, and the Queen Louise Adit lets you sail through underground workings.
The CARBONEUM exhibition devoted to coal, plus a viewing platform with a restaurant higher up.
The Guido mine, the three places of the Queen Louise Adit complex (the adit, the buildings and the bathhouse), the Carnall Shaft and the water tower.
Buildings above the Maciej shaft survive and count as a monument. Treat them as something to view from outside.
