A good example of straight architecture with its geometric design, here : old and new next to each other, the coal mine and the Hercules whose job it was for years to get the carbonic gold off the ground.
A trip around the former coal mines and the changing of landscape that is left. Yet, I believe, the identity of the people that coined and witnessed that change is still unique and the area still worth showing although, feeling ashamed of its industrial past, its dirt and noise, people used to avoid mentioning or showing it.
Examples from different coal mines could be able to demonstrate this belief.
The second Tower is a symbol of the new face of the area, with the body of the Greek God Hercules as expression of the strength and the everlasting endurance of the people to do this hard labour for more than a century.
Look at me, I am proud of myself, proud of my family and their origins at a place where people from all over the continent came together to work hard, no matter what their culture looked like, what languages they spoke and what belief they had.
children called these buildings, typical of a coal mine, red brick building, the beauty of which steppesd into the background because of the sky that was darkened the whole day due to unstoppable smoke and dust.
Decay everywhere, who is responsible to save these walls that made us curious to look at what was behind.
marching upwards to the new hills, which were designed on the remains of non-used stones from the ground, which covered this huge area, visitors walk past gravestones of the memories of the hard work of more than two centuries. Each gravestone is "equipped" with a tool the miners carried on their down to the ground.
The feeling of being on a huge graveyard reading the quotes from diaries of the first miners who came from Eastern Europe in the 18th century.
Just a reminder of what is called hard work all done by hand.
Miners went down, we climb up to be able to see what is left from our industrial history. This is called the STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN.
The sky is the limit today for us as well as the depth was the limit for the miners.
Machines like these were the heart of the region, giving power and energy to make all this possible.
Our history cannot be hidden or deleted, it is everywhere.
The dinosaurs of our Carbon Age. Monuments that were designed to feed and never to kill.
The material that was as precious as the gold in Alaska.
The skeletons that were the bones of our industrial body.
machine halls that looked like a cathedral from inside.
windows like this made you feel like being in a church which was good for the Christian workers from Poland who were the first to come.
This machine hall looked like palace made of glass expressing elegance to the people from outside.
Sometimes it feels just like yesterday, they will come back and continue their work.
The biggest of all and below her little sister. Today a very special monument of the area.
Our legs of steel are everwhere, as well as buildings like the ones below.
A huge number of open-hearted people welcomes the world.
