Victoria Pit
| Victoria Pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1872 | ||
| End of operation | 1963 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 16'59.1 " N , 6 ° 54'4" E | ||
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| local community | Püttlingen | ||
| Regional Association ( NUTS3 ) | Saarbrücken | ||
| country | State of Saarland | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Saar | ||
The Viktoria mine is a former coal mine in the Saarland city of Püttlingen. It produced a total of four shafts from 1872 to 1963. The plant was finally closed in 1972.
history
The former Viktoria mine in Püttlingen belonged to the conglomerate of coal mines in the Saarland mining region . It was on what was then the outskirts and was named after Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland (1840–1901). Besides the Franziska Pit , this is the only one dedicated to a woman. Otherwise only shafts were given female names.
The pit was originally a side shaft of the Gerhard pit , only at the time of the French mine management on the Saar 1920–1935 did it become an independent mine. Its story begins with the excavation of the first shaft in 1866 (Viktoria I), 1881 (Viktoria II) and the Aspenschacht in 1891. Shaft III in Köllerbach- Engelfangen was opened on September 15, 1902 and closed again in October 1964. The pit was connected to the Gerhard mother pit by the 3705 m long Veltheim tunnel, the two mouth holes of which in Luisenthal and Püttlingen are well preserved. Until recently, the plant with 1,300 miners produced 2,100 tons of coal per day. The pits have remained almost unchanged to this day. The Engelfangen mouth hole in the Viktoriastollen has recently been extensively restored (the Püttlingen mouth hole, which was located directly behind the two shafts Viktoria I and II, has not been preserved). Up until the summer of 2013, Viktoriaschacht II was one of the last operational shafts in Saarland; it is used for dewatering .
Currently (October 2013) work is underway to backfill the Viktoria II shaft. The eastern hoisting rope and the associated hoisting cage have already been removed. A platform has been pulled in at a depth of 60 m, from there to the surface of the earth the shaft will be filled with concrete over the next few weeks. Only a narrow steel pipe remains open for drainage by means of a pump deep in the shaft, but the shaft will no longer be accessible. Exactly 50 years after the shutdown of coal production, the last shaft of the Victoria mine will no longer be operational. Up to 6,000 cubic meters of pit water are pumped out of the shaft every day and fed into the Schlehbach .
The architecture of the entire facility is still easy to understand today. It is demanding and successful. The first two shafts were built right next to the colliery with wash house - a brick building from 1910 - which still exists today and is used by the “Entrepreneur Center Püttlingen”. The connection to Shaft III is made by the 1250-meter-long Viktoriastollen, through which the raw material coal was transported . The hoisting machine house, which is diagonally opposite the Engelfangen mouth hole , also still exists. It was built in 1904 from sandstone blocks and today houses a barn and a horse stable. The Engelfangen colliery is also well preserved.
At the same time as coal production began in July 1872, a mine connection railway to the Völklingen train station was put into operation. This railway was primarily used to transport the coal extracted, but also transported material to the mine and handled other public goods transport. The passenger traffic, which was carried out by GmP from the beginning , was discontinued when the Köllertalbahn , which ran largely parallel to it, went into operation;
During the Second World War, the Veltheim tunnel was also used as a protective tunnel. During an American artillery attack on the Victoria mine on December 13, 1944, a clarifier above the tunnel entrance was hit, the mud poured into the tunnel, killing 19 people who sought protection there. A plaque at the tunnel mouth hole reminds of the accident today.
The daytime system Viktoria I / II, including u. a. The headframe of the shaft II and the conveyor machine house, is the total ensemble just like the ensemble Victoria III in Engel catch under conservation .
On September 26, 1901, Zaifeng , half-brother of the Chinese emperor at the time, visited the Victoria shafts on his journey through Germany. The newspaper Der Bergmannsfreund reported on this visit.
Recovery dump Victoria
Next to the former mine there is the Viktoria mine dump, nicknamed Monte Schlacko . In the first half of the 20th century, several small heaps were created here. In 1948 a high-lintel system was built, which further heaped up the small heaps, whereby they grew together and thus formed today's tip Victoria. After the end of mining, it towered over the natural landscape by 80 to 100 meters.
The heap has been owned by the city of Püttlingen since 1972. Then the machine house of the mountain inclined elevator was demolished and new footpaths laid. Beginning in 1976 the dump was greened. In the course of this, around 80,000 young trees were planted on the steep slopes of the Viktoria dump. These included maples , mountain ash , pine , alder , linden , willow , poplar and wild rose . In the course of time, this planting developed into a closed vegetation . On the dump there is now a viewing platform with a height of 403 m above sea level. NHN and a summit cross . The former pyramid-shaped tip of the heap had to give way to this platform in 1975. From the plateau you have a view of the Weiher power plant , the Ensdorf heap , the Völklinger Hütte , the Dillinger Hütte and the Warndtwald .
Around the year 2000, the Haldenrundweg was created as part of the Saar Regional Park project , which connects the Viktoria heap with other heaps that are located around the Saar coal forest . The Rocco del Schlacko Festival also took place from 1999 to 2003 at the foot of the dump .
literature
- Delf Slotta: The Saarland coal mining industry. Vol. 1. Pictures of people, pits and mining environments: Stories from contemporary witnesses. Krüger Druck und Verlag, Dillingen / Saar 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-035206-5 . Publisher: RAG Aktiengesellschaft (Herne) and Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland e. V. (Schiffweiler).
- Literature on Grube Viktoria in the Saarland Bibliography
Web links
- The Viktoria mine in Püttlingen on the saar-nostalgie.de website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b http://www.saar-nostalgie.de/Saargruben.htm
- ^ A b Karl Heinz Ruth: Tunnels and shafts in hard coal mining on the Saar, Bd. 10. Grube Viktoria. Supplement to the group magazine Saarberg, edition 7/1990. Publisher: Saarbergwerke Aktiengesellschaft.
- ↑ a b c d e Michael Kipp: Mountain heaps in Saarland: the Viktoria in Püttlingen. Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 18, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.saarlandbilder.net/orte/puettlingen/grube_viktoria.htm
- ↑ Paul Sperling: On the history of the Viktoria mine railway. ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Contribution to the exhibition Hundred Years of the Köllertal Railway on the website of the Püttlingen station. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland Sub-monuments list Regionalverband Saarbrücken on the official website of the Saarland. PDF file, 9.7MB, accessed October 1, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Delf Slotta : The Saarkohlenwald and the new Haldenrundweg . November 14, 2006 ( online [PDF; 2.2 MB ]).
- ↑ Elmar Müller: A way of industrial culture. Saarbrücker Zeitung , September 29, 2008, accessed on March 14, 2020 .
