Bochum Travel Guide

Bochum is a city in the Ruhr area, North-Rhine-Westfalica. It was a long time the city with the most coal mines in the city area. It´s one of the points where the industrialisation based on coal began. the mines digged deeper and deeper for the coal, expanding in northern direction
Today there is no shaft in Bochum left, but the famous "German Mining Museum" shows still a lot of mining history, development and technique.