The Zollverein coal ... museum and gallery at Zollverein attracts over 250,000 visitors a year, and several other mines host music concerts, food and cultural festivals. In the nearby city of Bochum, ...

The cutting of Russian gas supplies to Europe has led Germany to step up coal use, despite its goal ... York Times Even with the sound of the mining machines in the distance, Mr. Heukamp had ...

Victory in Europe Day, known as VE Day, marks the day the Allies formally accepted Germany's surrender ... The National Coal Mining Museum will be hosting a very special event to mark the occasion ...

There is a saying in the swath of eastern Germany ... “But Satan put coal underneath.” Local people did a deal with the devil over the past 100 years: they let mining machines carve chunks ...

In the drab coal-mining towns of the Ruhr and the Saar ... Their protest was too late. Last week the German coal industry announced plans to close down 36 mines that produce a quarter of West ...