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The earliest news from the mining am Deister date back to the time of the Thirty Years War. 1637 are above Wennigsen the first time coal have been obtained on Bröhn. The coal production has contributed the latest at the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century significantly to the development of the surrounding towns and the rise of Hannover-Linden into a major industrial center (Hanomag). Deister there, starting with the simple early small mines to large mining equipment, more than 100 mines. The last closed until 1960. We know of several hundred (now barely visible) Mining openings.

The purpose of this app is to awaken and keep alive the interest in this historic mining and lead to arbitrary or guided tours to ancient Ping, shafts, slag heaps, railways and coal roads.