Burgker Weißeritzstolln

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The Burgker Weißeritzstolln was a water dissolving tunnel in the hard coal area of ​​the Döhlen basin in the area of ​​the city of Freital in Saxony . It served the drainage of the mine field on the right of the Weißeritz, which belonged to the barons of Burgker coal and ironworks .

history

The Burgker Weißeritz tunnel was plotted in 1773. The drive was carried out in the local and opposite direction from five light holes and from the mouth hole in Potschappel . In 1823 the tunnel had a total length of 1342 meters in the final expansion with the wing words to the old shaft, Wilhelminenschacht (Erdmannschacht), Bergerschacht , Bormannschacht and Dammsschacht. In 1836 the Kleinburker Stollnflügel was added to the Fortuna shaft . During the main operating period, 80 liters of water per minute flowed to the Weißeritz.

In 1886 the tunnel was approached from the Rosinaschacht .

With the resumption of mining in the lower area by the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Freital , the tunnel was silted for the last time in 1946. In order to protect deep-lying mine workings against the risk of penetrating Weißeritz floods, the tunnel was shut down in 1952 and the tunnel mouth hole was walled up.

The 3rd and 5th light holes also served as a delivery shaft for a while. From the 5th light hole, the remaining pillars of the five-meter-thick seam that were mined there until 1836 were accessed. A total of 19,350 tons of coal were mined at the 5th light hole. The 5th light hole was kept safe in 1982 by the Freital mountain security. The third light hole served as a water reservoir for the community of Großburk from 1850. In 1916 it was used as a starting point for research work in the Lower Revier without receiving funding. Only in the time of need after the Second World War did the city of Freital start extracting remaining coal piers from the 3rd light hole, now known as Shaft 1 Unteres Revier , in 1946 . The amount of coal mined, however, remained small, it amounted to only 7108 tons. In 1950 the shaft was thrown off.

Light holes

  • Mouth hole ( ⊙ )
  • 1. light hole ( ⊙ )
  • 2. light hole ( ⊙ )
  • 3rd light hole (shaft 92) ( ⊙ )
  • 4. light hole ( ⊙ )
  • 5. light hole ( ⊙ )

literature

  • Eberhard Gürtler, Klaus Gürtler: The hard coal mining in the Döhlen basin. Part 2: Shafts to the right of the Weißeritz. House of Homeland Freital, 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Saxony, the spelling Stolln is used instead of Stollen. "Tiefer Weißeritzstolln" as a proper name is spelled correctly.
  2. ^ Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie / Sächsisches Oberbergamt (ed.): The Döhlener basin near Dresden. Geology and Mining (=  mining in Saxony . Volume 12 ). Freiberg 2007, ISBN 3-9811421-0-1 , p. Appendix 6 ( digital copies [accessed on May 29, 2015]).