landing a few dozen meters down the ladders give you a hard time. Later hewn into the rock hall in the Napoleonic era have good bend his neck.
Zabrze project involves providing tourists 2.5 km section of the tunnel key is inherited from the shaft Carnall unearthed until buried out of place in the region of the tunnel. Ruler.
Adit was founded in the nineteenth century. Combined mines in the Royal King and Queen Louise Huta in Zabrze. The initial episode was used to dewater the underground workings and from the shaft Zabrze boats floated down that way with coal, which then flowed on the surface of the canal Bytomką Kłodnica.
Tourists have defeated the entire train and boat tour. Along the way, one of the attractions will be visiting the port of embarkation from the underground reconstructed quay, crane, a small railway junction and stables.
problem is that the originators were not sure what you will find at the bottom. In last year's team penetrated cavers Although a significant section of the tunnel, from entering the pl. Scoops, but extending the underground directly beneath the shaft were a riddle.
- Well, we can breathe. Adit is where it should have, and it is in excellent state - has a Leszek Zurek, chief Guido Zabrze mine. Zurek two days before mine rescue team head who first penetrated this part of the underworld. Now is our guide. When half bend traverse a corridor carved into the rock, every now and then glances at the camera to measure the oxygen level. To him it was plentiful, the air from the top all the time it is pressed a powerful pipe. Fragment of the tunnel, through which we walk, was built in 1819. Ends solid masonry dam. - Some 300-400 feet away on the other side is the first underground harbor. But dam open only when you deal with the purification of this passage - says Zurek.
creaks underfoot soft sand. Possibly even two, three meters layer. You have to remove it only to be able to see the passage in all its splendor. Although it is already art builders. Strengthen brick floors look really solid.
- We were afraid what zastaniemy at the bottom. Now we know that is good. We can go to work on - highlights Bartlomiej Szewczyk, Head of strategy and city development. A schedule is tight. Until the end you have to prepare detailed plans for the tunnel and ground-based adaptation building of tourist facilities. Haste is necessary to Zabrze had lost 41 million zł EU grant for the project. If all goes well, the first tourists will arrive down at the end of 2011.
Source: Gazeta Wyborcza Katowice.
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