WEL 8 Slate building Nuttlar

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Schieferbau Nuttlar

Slate crusher – the word itself sounds like a back-breaking job. For the workers of Nuttlar it is everyday life, all the more so following the slate boom triggered by the construction of the Ruhr Valley railway in 1873, which opens up new markets and prompts the local slate mining industry to move underground. Its legacy is a vast hidden maze – a fantastic underground adventure for today's visitors …