C-Mine is a cultural and recreational center in the Belgian city of Genk, which started as a development project of the former Winterslag coal mine.
The Winterslag coal mine went into production in 1917 as the first of the mines of the Kempen Basin. On 31 March 1988 the mine closed its doors and in 1993 the mine site became protected heritage. The coal laundry, the brickworks, the workshops and the cooling towers were demolished. The lamp and shower rooms (lampisterie), the management buildings (office building), the machine building with power plant and the collection machines (energy building), the warehouses, the horse stables and the two shaft towers have been preserved.[1] The buildings in neo-classical and neo-Flemish renaissance style date from the period 1912-1925. The two shaft trestles date from 1916 (the oldest in Limburg) and 1963 (the last built in Limburg).
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