A 7 - The Ruhr area in Germany

In the Ruhr area a lot of cole mines closed within the last years / decades. Many chances for employment vanished and the whole area has to be restructured. Several classes visited former cole mines in Dorsten, Essen and the museum of mining in Bochum.



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