Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Andaluzja

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Żeromski shaft frame with shaft hall shortly before demolition
Dołki weather shaft in the east field

The Andalusia mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Andaluzja" ) is a former coal mine in Piekary Śląskie , Poland.

history

The Andalusia mine was built in July 1903 in the Brzowice-Kamień district of Piekary Śląskie from the consol fields . Andalusia, Rest-Phoenix, Kronprinzess, Kleine Kronprinzess and Oppurg and had an entitlement of 4.21 km² (1926: 9.05 km²). These fields were in the years 1873-1880 awarded Service. Initially owned by Prince Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck , he sold it to the Schlesische AG for mining and zinc smelting operation (Schlesag) in 1908 before the first coal production began .

The coal seams were opened up by two shafts at the beginning , and a third shaft was added later. These three were later named Żeromski, Sienkiewicz and Reymont. As a weather shaft , the extending Dołki weather shaft was added at a later point in time in the eastern section of the area. Since the mine was directly across the border between West and East Upper Silesia, which was newly created in 1921/22, it belonged to Śląskie Kopalnie i Cynkownie in Katowice after the division . This transfer of ownership was reversed during the occupation of Poland by the German Wehrmacht, before all coal mines in the Upper Silesian mining area were nationalized at the end of the Second World War .

In 1980 it had around 6,700 employees. After the creation of the Piekary composite mine , the daytime facilities were shut down, the entire pit area was completely cleared in several stages and the construction site dismantled from Piekary. Dołki shaft continues to be used for ventilation (production 1913: 30,039 t; 1938: 495,505 t; 1970: 2.53 million t; 1979: 4.34 million t).

swell

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
  • Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phoenix Publishing House. Kattowitz, Breslau, Berlin 1913. Digitized version at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 (last accessed on May 5, 2015)
  • Kurt König: The coal mining in Upper Silesia from 1945–1955. Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Published by the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute. Marburg 1958.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 31.3 "  N , 18 ° 59 ′ 15.3"  E