Patrimoine technique méconnu des mines d’Alsace et de Moselle : les machines d’extraction

Abstract

This article offers a brief history of winding engines and of the principal stages in their technical evolution. Inventory surveys carried out in the Lorraine coal basin and in the region of potassium mines in Alsace allow for an identification of the representative engines and of the remarkable ones, all of them part of a little studied and much neglected industrial heritage.

Keywords

• mining
• coal mines
• potassium mines
• winding engines
• Alsace
• Moselle