Historic Wieliczka Salt Mine
- the world's only mining facility, operating without a break from the
Middle Ages to the present day. Its original production (drifts, ramps,
operating the camera, lakes, mines, pits) with a total of about 300
kilometers Dina, located on levels 9, runs to a depth of 327 meters,
show all the stages of development of mining machinery in certain
historical eras
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| Camera Copernicus (Komora Mikoіaja Kopernika) |
So there is a fragment justify recording the Salt Mine "Wieliczka"
produced by September 9, 1978 in List I of the 12 UNESCO a World
Cultural and Natural Heritage
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| Wieliczka Salt Mine on map |
Camera Copernicus (Komora Mikoіaja Kopernika) was formed in 1785, as a result of development of green lumps of salt. It is assumed that Copernicus visited the mine. Due to this his 500th anniversary of the mine was a monument.
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Camera Janovice
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Camera Janovice (Komora Janowice) hollowed in a block of green salt in the first half of the XVII century. In 1967, in the chamber are figures from the salt, which illustrate the legend of the opening of the rock salt deposits: Miner delivers first Princess Kinga salt rock with it being in her wedding ring, with this event, there are Polish and Hungarian knights, and two miners, bringing the extracted salt.
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| Camera Janovice |
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| Everything steeped in salt |
The best material for building mines wood. Impregnated with salt, it does not rot. Iron, on the contrary, corroding salt.
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| Over time, wooden beams turned to the salt stones |
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| Burned camera (Komora Spalona) |
Burned camera (Komora Spalona). When working in the mines of the miners are always in danger: methane explosion, the collapse of the breed. This camera shows the columns that break under the pressure of the rock, and the miners that burn methane flame length.
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| Everything steeped in salt |
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| Over time, wooden beams turned to the salt stones |
Camera Casimir the Great (Komora Kazimierza Wielkiego), so named in honor of the famous Polish king. He gave in 1368 kopyam saline body of law that determines the mining law, and regulating mining and salt trade. There is a bust of King Casimir the Great, sculptured out of salt.
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| Camera Casimir the Great (Komora Kazimierza Wielkiego) |
Horse Drive (18th century) is an authentic wooden mechanism is intended for vertical transportation for mine prospecting shafts huge blocks of salt from the lower to the upper levels. The mechanism set in motion four horses.
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| Camera Casimir the Great (Komora Kazimierza Wielkiego) |
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| Wieliczka |
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| Wieliczka |
Chapel of St. Kinga (Kaplica Sw. Kingi) is located at a depth of 101 m Its dimensions: length - 54 m, width - 15-18 m, height - 10-12 m active underground chapel in 1896.
The chapel is decorated with chandeliers, salt crystals, statues of Pope John Paul II
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| Chapel of St. Kinga (Kaplica Sw. Kingi) |
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| Chapel of St. Kinga (Kaplica Sw. Kingi) |
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| Chapel of St. Kinga (Kaplica Sw. Kingi) |
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| Chapel of St. Kinga (Kaplica Sw. Kingi) |
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| Warsaw Chamber (Komora Warszawa) |
Warsaw Chamber (Komora Warszawa) is hollowed in the 19th century. Camera dimensions: length - 54 m, width - 17 m, height - 9 pm The chamber held mining celebration, entertainment, concerts, balls.
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| Warsaw Chamber (Komora Warszawa) |
Address of the mine:
Kopalnia Soli «Wieliczka»
Trasa Turystyczna Sp. z o. o.
ul. Daniłowicza 10
32-020 Wieliczka, Polska
GPS: N49 ° 58,966 'E020 ° 03,374'
Tel.: +48 12 278 73 02, +48 12 278 73 66
Fax: +48 12 278 73 33
e-mail: turystyka@kopalnia.pl
Hours:
Salt mine "Wieliczka" take visitors each day:
07:30 - 19:30 (April 1 - October 31)
08:00 - 16:00 (November 2 - March 31)
Closed: 1 January, Easter Sunday, November 1, 4, 24, 25, 26 and 31.
Irina Vasilkova
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