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  3. Hauts-de-France
  4. Pas-de-Calais
  5. 62590 Oignies

  6. Fossus 9 and 9 bis of Dourges to Oignies mines

 Fossus 9 and 9 bis of Dourges to Oignies mines dans le Pas-de-Calais

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine minier
Fosse de mines

Fossus 9 and 9 bis of Dourges to Oignies mines

    Fos Neuf
    62590 Oignies
Ownership of the municipality
Museums of France
All classified mining heritage of France
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Crédit photo : Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick (1988–) Descriptionph - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1900
2000
1930
Start of work
1946
Nationalization
21 décembre 1990
Final closure
6 mai 1992
Partial MH registration
10 février 1994
Full MH classification
30 juin 2012
UNESCO registration
28 juin 2013
Inauguration of the Metaphone
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Set of buildings located to the right of the entrance of the tile: administrative buildings (offices), bath-douchs in their original part, repair shops, former boiler room, water tower, old garages and shops, pay room (box AT 101): registration by order of 6 May 1992 - All buildings and machinery directly related to the extraction of coal, including: the two wells with their straddling and their recipe building as well as the devices related to the extraction; the machinery buildings and their technical installations, i.e. the machinery (the two bicylindroconic drum machines, the engine unit, the four compressors, the two fans) and all devices related to the operation of these machines and related electrical equipment (the refrigerant, compressed air tanks, the former emergency winch building), as well as the ground and basement in a quadrilateral covering the above-mentioned buildings (Box AT 101): classification by order of 10 February 1994

Key figures

Georges Mulot - Drilling engineer Discoverer of coal in Oignies (1842)
Dellile - Architect Building Designer (1928-1932)
Foby - Chief Engineer Dellile's contributor to the pit
Louis Dandrel - Musician and composer Creator of the sound façade
Isabel Hérault et Yves Arnod - Architects Reconversion of the site (Metaphone)

Origin and history

Declercq-Crombez, pit number 9 and 9 bis, were dug from 1930 by the Compagnie des mines de Dourges in Oignies, in the mining basin of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The wells, with a diameter of 5.10 metres, were designed for extraction and ventilation, with a brick casing. The pit became operational a few years later, marking one of the last installations before the 1946 nationalization. Mining towns and a conical earth (n°10) were built nearby, illustrating the social and industrial organization typical of mining sites.

Nationalized in 1946, the pit became part of the Oignies Group and gradually ceased extractive activity after 1961, refocusing on ventilation and service for nearby pits. She played a key role in the preparation of pit 10 in Dourges and provided equipment for pit 2 in Ostricourt via a bowl. On 21 December 1990, it climbed up the last garlet in the mining basin, marking the end of the regional coalfield. The wells, filled in 1991, were secured with plugs and clasps.

The site was listed as a historic monument in 1992 (administrative buildings) and then in 1994 (navals and machines), and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012 with its burrow, cities and dispensary. A cultural and tourist conversion was initiated, focusing on music with the creation of the Metaphone (2013), an innovative concert hall with a "sound skin". The tile also houses the Mining Basin Mission and spaces dedicated to the tertiary economy, combining heritage preservation and contemporary dynamism.

The site, designed by architects Dellile and Foby engineer between 1928 and 1932, illustrates the neo-regionalist style of red bricks and reinforced concrete. Its original machines (Jeumont, Messian, Rateau) and its chivalry testify to the mining engineering of the twentieth century. Four working-class cities (Declercq, Bonniers, Verger, Justice) were built nearby, reflecting the evolution of mining housing, from individual houses of the 1930s to clustered post-nationalization dwellings.

Oignies, the site of Georges Mulot's first discovery of coal in Pas-de-Calais in 1842, became a symbol of the end of the mining era. The site, now open to the public, combines industrial memory (tourism, seminars) and innovation, with a hotel-restaurant planned in the old engine room. Close to the Delta 3 multimodal platform, it is part of a dynamic economic and cultural revival for the Hauts-de-France.

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