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Mar 5, 2005 10:05
19 yrs ago
German term

Besucherbergwerk

German to English Marketing Tourism & Travel
The context is the "Besucherbergwerk F60" in the Lausitz, a revamped mine turned tourist attraction. I definitely need some sort of English name for it (because it appears literally 100 times, and readers will forget if you leave the German and only explain it the first time). "Visitors' mine" just doesn't sound right. I checked e.g. Cornish equivalents, but none of them referred to a particular term.
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 F60
3 +8 Mining Museum
4 +1 Exhibition mine
3 tourist mine

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Mar 6, 2005:
"public mine" ?
Non-ProZ.com Mar 5, 2005:
I'd use heritage, except that's part of the general context. All of these mines-turned-lakes (its part of a 10-year project (IBA) to "reclaim the landscape(s)", as it were, of the Lausitz) are heritage sites anyway.
Non-ProZ.com Mar 5, 2005:
I see JeffZ is familiar with the F60 incl. conveyor bridge. Its not really a museum or exhibition. Perhaps the "F60 mining site". On a further note, the English iba-see site is useless (which directly explains my working the weekend). At some places I will just write F60, but I do need a snappy term elsewhere.
writeaway Mar 5, 2005:
what's involved-is it just a tour of an old mining site or has it been converted into a recreational site, etc.?

Proposed translations

+2
9 mins
Selected

F60

Why don't you explain it once with the first mention, and then just call it F60 afterwards? Their Web site is, after all, www.f60.de (where they call it "visitor attraction", which is fairly silly)



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Note added at 2 hrs 46 mins (2005-03-05 12:51:55 GMT)
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In the instances where you need to describe it, you could say \"xxx strip mine\", liberally substituting adjectives like \"former\", \"retired\", \"inactive\", \"impressive\", etc.

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Note added at 2 hrs 47 mins (2005-03-05 12:52:26 GMT)
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And yes, the Lausitz is in Berlin\'s bacon belt :-)

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Note added at 2 hrs 59 mins (2005-03-05 13:04:28 GMT)
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You could also refer to it as \"this attraction\", \"this monumental feat of mechanical engineering\", etc.
Peer comment(s):
agree Claire Cox : I've checked the website for the Blaenau slate mining museum up in North Wales, where thye have just such a mine but they just refer to it as a mine and explain that it's open to the public and recreates life in the mines, etc, etc.
1 hr
agree rangepost : with using adjectives. In MN some of the old mines are open as state parks, and they just use "mine"
5 hrs
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I put "mining heritage site", although within the specific context referred alternately to the (F60) mine or conveyor bridge. Thanks for the effort!"
+1
5 mins

Exhibition mine

This may be an alternative to "Visitors' Mine".
Peer comment(s):
neutral JeffFish (X) : not bad, but raises an image (deep underground mine) that the attraction itself doesn't deliver: it's a tour of the (above)grounds and, especially, the giant conveyor bridge
4 mins
agree Reiner Dieg (X) : Look up "exhibition mine" in Google and you'll see references to one in VA and one in WV, USA. They refer to themselves as "exhibition coal mines."
3 hrs
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+8
12 mins

Mining Museum

from the website it seems to be a mining museum where there are guided tours, but wich also has occasional concerts, art displays etc. Similar sites in Yorkshire are called "Mining Museums", but maybe a term like "Mining Centre and Exhibition Centre" might work too.
Reference:

http://www.f60.de/

Peer comment(s):
agree Steffen Walter : Perhaps add "opencast" somewhere at the beginning of the text to make clear that this is not located underground.
3 mins
agree Norbert Hermann : yes, or maybe s/thing with heritage
4 mins
agree Frosty
29 mins
agree Ulrike Walpert : http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/private/freight/MKB/pix....
38 mins
agree Lancashireman : Please try to squeeze 'Heritage' in as well. This will enoble the project.
57 mins
agree Louise Gough : See also http://www.ncm.org.uk/education.asp
1 hr
agree mstkwasa
2 hrs
agree rangepost
5 hrs
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31 mins

tourist mine

although it's indeed called visitor mine on several occasions:

the IBA projects Visitor Mine F60, Grüne Mitte [Green Middle] and Coking Plant
Lauchhammer, Plessa Power Station and the multifaceted minescape around ...
www.iba-see.de/content.php?l=2&dk=79 - 12k

or

A catalog will be published with the preview in AedesBerlin that presents a number
of projects, such as the Visitor Mine F60 near Finsterwalde, the IBA ...
www.aedes-arc.de/sixcms_4/sixcms/detail. php?object_id=9&area_id=1357&id=131945 - 7k

the IBA projects Visitor Mine F60, Grüne Mitte [Green Middle] and Coking Plant
Lauchhammer, Plessa Power Station and the multifaceted minescape around ...
www.iba-see.de/content.php?l=2&dk=79 - 12k -
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