Důl Jindřich

Useful Information

Location:	Nádražní 93, 702 00 Moravská Ostrava a Přívoz. (49.842113, 18.282991)
Open:	closed. [2025]
Fee:	closed. [2025]
Classification:	Coal Mine
Light:	Incandescent
Dimension:
Guided tours:	self guided
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	yes
Bibliography:
Address:	OSTRAVAINFO!!! - pobočka Věž, Prokešovo náměstí 1803/8, 702 00 Ostrava, Tel: +420-599-443-096. E-mail:
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History

1846	begin of coal mining.
1872	headframe erected.
1970s	end of mining.

Geology

Description

Důl Jindřich (Heinrichschacht, Henry Shaft) is a former coal mine and one of the remaining headframes in the city Ostrava. Although it is quite spectacular, it is not renovated and not open to the public. However, the headframe is quite spectacular and located at the Nádražní třída Avenue, one of the city’s most important thoroughfares. There even is a tram station of the same name. And it’s quite easy to visit the spectacular headframe.

Originally the shaft had a German name, Heinrichschacht, which was later translated. It was founded in 1846 as a state-owned Austro-Hungarian enterprise. Since 1856 it was owned by the Ferdinandova Northern Railway. It was nicknamed ‘Jáma X’ (‘Pit X’), which is why coalminers used to say they were going to excavate coal at the ‘tenner’.