Colliery United Castel Sant'Angelo
| Colliery United Castel Sant'Angelo | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Engelsburg colliery | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1867 | ||
| End of operation | 1961 | ||
| Successor use | Tram depot, soccer field | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '21.1 " N , 7 ° 10' 59.9" E | ||
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| Location | Wattenscheid-Eppendorf | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The colliery Castel Sant'Angelo is a former coal mine in the district of Eppendorf in Bochum district Wattenscheid . It goes back to the Storksbank gallery , which was founded in 1738 and renamed in 1830.
Storksbank colliery
The tunnel mouth hole of this system was built in 1738 in the Ahbachtal near Eppendorf. In 1740 a tunnel was sunk that reached a depth of 13 meters . In 1782 the "Paul" tunnel was built with a depth of 15 meters, followed by the "Hope", "Luise", "Wilhelm" and "Zuversicht" shafts. These makeshift systems drove the annual production to 4,000 tons until 1796. In 1829 the Storksbank colliery consolidated with other trades to form United Castel Sant'Angelo.
The beginnings of the United Engelsburg colliery
In 1833 “Engelsburg” went over to civil engineering , shaft 1 was in operation until 1848. In the same year he was appointed by Schacht Hector replaced, up to a flooding in 1867 promotion was.
In 1867 the Wilhelmsbank shaft , which took several tons, was the main shaft. A year later the mine was connected to a horse-drawn tram . In 1875 a new shaft "Castel Sant'Angelo 1" was sunk. From then on, the mine was at what is now Engelsburger Strasse, at its confluence with what is now Essener Strasse. This part of the facility was thus in the Weitmar district. On September 21, 1875, the connecting line to the Bochum marshalling yard of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) was accepted.
Modernization and expansion
From 1900 the surface and underground operations were extensively modernized. From 1904, the first overhead wire locomotives were used in underground transport throughout the Ruhr area on Castel Sant'Angelo. In 1900 a briquette factory for full and cube briquettes with a total of 115 t / h and later another egg briquette factory with a throughput of 230 t / h was built. In 1909 the Engelsburg 2 shaft was sunk.
The highest annual production was achieved in 1929 with 869,000 tons with 2,640 employees. On March 31, 1931, Castel Sant'Angelo was flooded by a water inrush and had to stop production for seven months. The water had come from the mine field of the recently closed neighboring United General & Erbstollen mine . In 1937 “Engelsburg” received the right to the remaining edible coal stocks of the “General & Erbstollen” colliery. As a result, the pit area of the colliery measured 8 square kilometers.
From 1954 the colliery was only called Castel Sant'Angelo, in 1956 the “Castel Sant'Angelo 3” weather shaft was sunk further to serve as a cable car . In 1961 the mine was shut down.
The current state
Today there is a depot for BOGESTRA trams on the site of the Engelsburg colliery . The colliery wall on Engelsburger Strasse has been partially preserved. The Germania Bochum-West soccer field is now located between the BOGESTRA site and the Donetsk Ringstrasse .
literature
- o. V .: "Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft - 10 years coal mining of the United Steelworks A.-G. 1926-1936", Essen 1936, p. 150 ff.
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9
Individual references, footnotes
- ↑ Sinking the "Engelsburg 1" shaft at today's Engelsburger Strasse in 1867
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 472 .
- ↑ n.v .: "Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft - 10 years coal mining of the United Steelworks A.-G. 1926-1936", Essen 1936, p. 150.