Carreau Wendel Museum

The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit.

After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years.

In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine.

The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions.

There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004.