The machine shaft
It is so named because after 1824, under the direction of the Dillinger Hütte, a machine house about 35 meters long stood above it.
It contained a state-of-the-art low-pressure steam engine, the first of its kind in the Saarland, for raising the mine water. This shaft is 18 meters high at the top and 25 meters deep at the bottom, for a total of 43 meters. Its dimensions are 1.65 meters by 4.30 meters. With this shaft, the Dillinger Hütte wanted to re-enter the old deep mines from the time around 1730. The shaft was divided into three parts: a driving shaft for the miners to go in and out, a hoisting shaft for the ore and another hoisting shaft for the water.