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There are strange and mysterious ruins that can be seen near the car loading area of Goppenstein in the Valais. Those who visit them embark on a journey into the past of the forgotten Swiss mining industry. We visited these ruins and had to admit that the magic of this dangerous place will never let us go. A Made by Tschanz production Music by ARTLIST. License: 333296 Do You really wanna now by Captain Qubz Contemplations by by Marine Walker Moon Walk by The Wildcardz The shores of Haikou by Lance Conrad Odd Numbers by Curtis Cole Fields of Faith by Noam Zaguri Spectral Echoes by FableForte Homebrew by Aves With film footage of Hansjoerg Stieger diving: • Switzerland - Goppenstein, explorator... Swiss Society for Speleology / Basel Section https://www.sgh-basel.ch Archive films: White & Black Coal 1949 SFW 0370 © BAR Road Traffic 1968 SFW 1309 © BAR The Millionth Tonne 1948 SFW 0333 © BAR Coal Block 1942 SFW 0111 © BAR Zell-Hueswil 1942 SFW 0098 © BAR 50 Years of the Lötschberg Railway 1963 SFW 1072 © BAR The people of Fribourg in the Valais 1968 SFW 1329 © BAR Local history research 1945 SFW 0224 © BAR Defensive Switzerland 1939 AF 04 © VBS/DDPS Herznach iron ore mine 1943 SFW 0141 © BAR Face of the homeland 1949 SFW 0382 © BAR Living past 1950 SFW 0437 © BAR Why air raid protection? 1917 Babs 080 © VBS/DDPS Horgen coal mine 1941 SFW 0067 © BAR Geneva - Swiss New Materials Exhibition 1942 SFW 0101 © BAR From the neighboring country to the south 1946 SFW 0277 © BAR Swiss ship in Gdansk 1948 SFW 0323 © BAR With kind permission of the Army Digital Media Center DMA https://www.vtg.admin.ch/de/zentrum-d... and the Swiss Federal Archives BAR https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/de/home.... A thank you to Barbara & Thommy Traber Restaurant Felsheim in Goppenstein https://felsheim.ch/index.html#/ A thank you to the archaeological archive of the Bern Historical Museum. https://www.bhm.ch/de/agenda