Pit Carl

Former briquette factory with residential units

Pit Carl from the west

Carl pit, parts of the briquette factory

Ornamental briquette from the Grube Carl briquette factory ( "Beller Hammer" brand )

Grube Carl is now a district of Frechen in the Rhein-Erft district on the site of the former Grube Carl mine and briquette factory .

With the acquisition of the concession on 25 July 1867 the Obersteiger the Frechener Klüttenkaulen Carl Sutor for two mining fields in Ville forest between Frechen and Horrem in the Rhenish lignite mining area , which he named after himself and his brother William, the story starts from pit Carl. In 1869, the union Vereinigte Carl was founded with the financier and clay tube manufacturer Heinrich Eduard Sticker , which in 1872 also acquired the Wachtberg field . But only when the concessions in the hands of the union founded in 1904 Beller Hammer had passed, was a Obligations - credit of 600,000 Reichsmarks of Bankhaus Deichmann 1905/07 built the briquette factory initially with six presses and 1905 disrupted the pit. The spoil came on two heaps to the east and northwest of the factory. The Grube Carl briquette factory was in operation from 1907 to 1995 and produced 40 million tons of briquettes during this period . The coal for this initially came from the smaller Carl mine and the Wachtberg mine , and from 1951 from the Frechen opencast mine .

Attempts to put the entire complex under monument protection failed. After the briquette factory was shut down, a new use for the area was found in the area through increased residential development since the mid-1990s. Six of ten factory buildings were preserved, but the machines and the production process were not shown in a museum. The listed buildings "press house", "wet service", "electrostation" and "low pressure boiler house" of the briquette factory were gutted and converted into high-quality loft apartments .

The Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the drying and press house of the Carl pit in cooperation with the Ministry of Building and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in April 2008 as part of the action platform “North Rhine-Westphalia lives”. A jury chaired by state curator Udo Mainzer selected twelve works from the 41 submissions that deal with virulent problems and tasks of urban development in North Rhine-Westphalia and found convincing, exemplary solutions.

The next motorway junction is “Gleuel” on the A 1 . The settlement is reached via Dürener Straße.

Web links

Commons : Grube Carl  - Collection of Images

• Detailed story by Grube Carl
• History and pictures of the Zeche Grube Carl
• Briquette factory Carl

literature

• Walter Buschmann : Carl briquette factory in Frechen. Historical use and status of conservation efforts. In: Cöllnisch Umbra. The Rhenish lignite mining area as a landscape of monuments. (= Workbook of the Rhenish preservation of monuments. Issue 67 ) Ed. Landschaftsverband Rheinland. Rheinisches Amt für Denkmalpflege , Michael Imhof Verlag , Petersberg 2002, pp. 59–66, ISBN 3-935590-41-5
• Volker HW Schüler (Ed.): Pit and Briquette Factory Carl from 1905 to 2015 , Verlag Volker HW Schüler, Frechen 2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Buschmann, Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland. ed. from LVR and MBV-NRW , 2008, p. 441 ff
2. ↑ Article in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 29, 2005: The Briquette with the Hammer ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 25, 2009. 
3. ↑ The Frechen opencast mine on rwe.com

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 6 ° 47'  E