Lengede

Lengede is a municipality in the district of Peine, in Lower Saxony, Germany, a few 18 kilometers southwest of Braunschweig and 40 kilometers southeast of Hanover. It have become recognized to the world in 1963 because of a mining catastrophe and the subsequent rescue operation of 11 surviving miners, which have become called the Miracle of Lengede. A lot of water was had to wash the ore of the iron mine Mathilde in Lengede, and numerous artificial lakes existed right above the underground mine. At 8 p.M. On 24 October 1963, water and mud from one of those lakes broke into the mine.

At that point, 129 men have been working underground. 79 guys controlled to break out proper away. A group of 7 guys became reached with a drill while the water stage receded on the following day, they may be stored with a float. Four men went to the accelerated quit of a gallery; although it was underneath water degree, the air pocket there avoided the water from coming into. Expecting to find men there, a drilling becomes started to the cavern some 79 meters beneath floor.