Adolfsburg mine
| Adolfsburg | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / total | approx. 18,000 t of lignite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 21 (1948) | ||
| Start of operation | March 23, 1847 | ||
| End of operation | 1948 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
| Greatest depth | 64.71 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 42 '19 " N , 8 ° 1' 17.1" E | ||
|
|||
| Location | Emmerzhausen | ||
| local community | Emmerzhausen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Altenkirchen | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District |
Bergrevier Daaden-Kirchen ( Westerwald lignite mining area ) |
||
The Adolfsburg mine was a lignite mine near Emmerzhausen near Daaden in the Westerwald lignite area .
history
After the discovery of lignite deposits at the Stegskopf , the construction of a tunnel began in 1846 , in which, after 130 m in length, the 1.5–2 m thick seam was encountered in May 1847 . The Adolfsburg mine field was already muted on March 23, 1847. The mother , leaning carrier and shift supervisor Daniel Schweitzer, the trades Peter Schweitzer, Garl Nickol, Ghristian Brand, Friedrich Schweitzer and Peter Scheel from Daaden, the trades Peter Heidrich from Emmerzhausen and the forester Adolph Kraupe from Daaden were present at the award ceremony . After the mine had its heyday in the 1850s, operations were stopped again in 1872. The reason for the closure was the inability to compete with hard coal from the Ruhr area .
In 1903 the mine was lent again and the second operating time, which was only to last until 1911, heralded. A deep tunnel was driven 650 m into the mountain, at 520 m it met the seam in 1905, which here was 2.5 to 3 m thick. In the same year a machine shaft was sunk. This is said to have been at least 64.71 m deep, other sources speak of 78 m. Up to the renewed shutdown in 1911 with 6–10 employees, approx. 1500–1600 t of lignite were mined. After the closure, it was leased to master blacksmith Gustav Mudersbach from Emmerzhausen. But already in 1913 and 1915 the mine changed hands again, most recently to Ernst Giebeler from Siegen .
In the 1920s, a 150 m long cross passage was created in the deep tunnel at a length of 380 m. The seams reached were 1 to 5 m thick. On January 10, 1921, a miner was killed in an accident in the pit. In 1922, 14 miners were working in the mine, in 1923 there were only eleven, and a year later again 15. Between 1920 and the renewed closure of the mine in 1924, 5,488 t of lignite were extracted. In 1929 the 100 m length of the deep tunnel was removed for the construction of a mine railway. From then on, however, only experimental work was done; on July 12, 1934, a miner was killed.
After the war, raw materials were scarce, so they looked for coal deposits again at the head of the bridge. In autumn 1945 the mine was sold to Michel und Schupp KG from Struthütten and a new tunnel was built. This reached the following lengths:
- January 1946: 25 m
- March 1946: 46 m
- May 1946: 96 m
- July 1946: 131 m
- December 1946: 250 m
- December 1947: 400 m
The tunnel was created approx. 250 m west of the deep tunnel . In 1946 up to 18 people were employed in the mine. In December 1946 an explosives room was set up. The mine was closed in 1948, and most recently 21 members of the workforce extracted 125 t of brown coal from the 0.5–1.5 m thick deposits.
advancement
The total production was around 18,000 t of lignite.
|
|
|
|
See also
literature
- Ute Bosbach: Searching for traces in Eisenland - On the way on ore roads and miners ' paths, amadeusmedien, November 2006. ISBN 3-9808936-8-5
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d A. Ribbentrop: Description of the mountain district Daaden-Kirchen ; Bonn 1882
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1868
Web links
- Adolphsburg lignite mine on the Stegskopf
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )