Oranje-Nassau IV

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The former Oranje-Nassau IV coal mine was the smallest of the four Oranje-Nassau coal mines. For safety reasons, the mine used to be connected underground with the Oranje-Nassau III (2 km to the west), the Oranje-Nassau I (2.3 km to the south) and the Staatsmijn Hendrik (3 km to the north).

From this place you could therefore travel underground from Kerkrade via Heerlen to the Chemelot complex near Geleen!

Coal mine Oranje-Nassau IV

The story of the Oranje-Nassau IV starts in 1910, when construction of a ventilation shaft for the Oranje-Nassau III started on the edge of the Brunssummerheide. A few years later these plans were expanded and finally in 1928 the Oranje-Nassau IV mine was put into operation.

The deepest coal deposits in this mine, which were mined in 1953, were at a depth of 545 meters. In the same year, 2.6 million tons of coal were mined! In 1967 the mine was merged with the Oranje-Nassau III and the above-ground activities were largely halted.

The mine continued to function as an air shaft. In 1973 the Oranje-Nassau III/IV closed definitively. This was a year before the last Dutch coal mine (the Oranje-Nassau I in Heerlen) would close permanently.

Only the slag heap remains of the above-ground coal company; which is the only virtually untouched slag heap of all Dutch coal mines. Nature has now made this mountain its own. The remains of the leather mine can still be found in the slag heap.

The training mine was a copy of a mine where students were trained to become miners. And for those who look closely, the traces of the rails with which the mining stone was winched up the mountain are still visible.

The Oranje-Nassau IV was connected above ground via a railway line to the Oranje-Nassau I, from where the subsequent transport of the coal took place. The railway was largely on a dam, which bridged differences in height in the landscape. This railway dam is now used as a walking and cycling path.

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