Carreau Wendel Museum

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The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border (Saar-Warndt coal mining basin). Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

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Carreau Wendel Museum
Rue Maurice, Forbach-Boulay-Moselle

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Rue Maurice 4
57540 Forbach-Boulay-Moselle, Saint-Charles
Grand Est, France
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