Charbonnage de Forte-Taille
In 1768, H. J. Cappe, P. Resteau and J.B. Wilmet obtained a grant of "mines de houille" for a place called "Forte-Taille". In 1865, the company became the SA Charbonnage de Forte Taille and mined pits called "Fosse de l'Avenir" and "Vielle Fosse" amongst others. In 1886 the company became the SA Franco-Belge de Forte Taille. The denomination "Franco-Belge" had to be added due to French capital contribution to the company in order to operate a new pit in the woods of Spinois. In 1920, the company experienced a serious firedamp accident. 12 miners died that day. In 1929, the company only mined a last concession of 2244 hectares with its pit called "Espinoy", employing only about 402 people. The annual production was only 60,599 tons. October 30th, 1930 a second firedamp accident that happened in the morning at 4:30 o'clock costed the life of 5 additional miners. In 1935, the pits finally closed although the infrastructure was still maintained for many years, hoping to resume their operation.
Today the place is seriously degenerated and not really worth a visit.
Train repair shop
This SNCB train repair shop has replaced a previous one destroyed in Mai 1944 by allied air raids. It has been reconstructed after the end of World War 2 and closed in the year 2000. Today it is still used as a locomotive graveyard for the SNCB.
Black Darling
It was by an initiative of the Société des Houillères de Sarre et Moselle that the coking plant Black Darling (fake name), initially named coking plant of the shaft 6, has been created in 1910. It was the first coking plant in Lorraine. It has been an operation unit of the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (Groupe Charbonnages de France) from 1946 to march 31st, 2004. Since april 1st, 2004, the coking plant belonged to ROGESA (Roheisengesellschaft Saar mbH), a common agency of the saarland's iron industrials Dillinger Hütte and Saarstahl AG.
The coking plant had two coking oven units (86 ovens and 90 ovens) with a capacity of 900 000 tons of coke by year. It has been definitvely closed on october 15th, 2009 because no asset stripper could be found. 400 workers have lost their job.
Die Kohlenwäsche
In 1856 the coal mining at a small village in France started with a concession Monsieur Charles de Wendel and James Georges Tom Hainguerlot obtained. The mine was opened, what is now Wendel 2 was sunk 1862, in 1866 the pit of Wendel 1 was started. It was mined for more than 100 years until it was closed in 1988.
STUL Herserange
STUL Profil ARBED Herserange
Torpedo Bridge in Esch-sur-Alzette
This bridge related two ARBED entities. The torbedo brought the melted iron from ARBED Schifflange to the steel converters in Belval over this bridge.
Slate Mine of Martelange
This abandoned slate mine of Martelange in Belgium.
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