Bergrevier Siegen I
The Bergrevier Siegen I was an administrative district of the Bergamt Siegen, which was dissolved in 1861, in the eastern and central Siegerland .
expansion
The Bergrevier Siegen I had an area of 108.5 km² and included the entire Freudenberg office as well as the places Gosenbach , Niederschelden (including Dreisbach ) and Eiserfeld without Hengsbach from the Eiserfeld office , the places Seelbach , Trupbach , Birlenbach , Sohlbach , Dillnhütten and Klafeld ( Geisweid ) from the Weidenau office and the right-wing parts of Siegen with the incorporated town of Achenbach . The Eisernbach and the Sieg formed the border to the Siegen II mountain area between Eiserfeld and Klafeld .
history
In 1861 the mountain area, which had previously been called “Gosenbach”, was renamed “Siegen I”.
While in Gosenbach the larger, notable mining began as early as the 15th century, only individual pits from Eiserfeld were mentioned in the following period. Towards the end of the 18th century, however, the number of pits increased here too. Numerous cobalt mines were opened in the 18th century, particularly at the Sieg near Niederschelden. However, these did not last long. In 1886 there were 409 pits in operation in the district. At the beginning of the 19th century, all mines in the Gosenbach area had passed into the possession of Storch & Schöneberg , about 20 years earlier the time had come for the mines in the Tretenbach, south of Eiserfeld. The Eisenzecher Zug trade union was founded in order to achieve low-cost opening up of the ore reserves through civil engineering.
Before the wave of shutdowns that began in the mid-1920s as a result of the global economic crisis, most of the larger farms in the mountain area were spared. On February 29, 1960, Eisenzecher Zug, the last mine in the area, was shut down.
Pits
The pits are spread more towards the southern Siegen area, Gosenbach and Eiserfeld run the largest companies. There was less mining in the Freudenberg area . A notable mine there was Freudenberg , where ore was searched for up to a depth of 285 m. The largest mine in the mountain area, however, was the Storch & Schöneberg company in Gosenbach. With an annual production of almost 400,000 tons of iron ore and a workforce of 2,000, it was the largest spate iron mine in Europe around 1900. The deepest mine in the Siegen I district was the Eisenzecher Zug mine south of Eiserfeld. At 1,343 m, it was also the deepest in Europe. Other pits were, for example, the Brüderbund near Eiserfeld or Alte Dreisbach in the now-built Dreisbach, which belongs to Niederschelden.
More pits
pit | District | Conjecture | Shutdown | Depth (in meters) | Special |
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Old Dreisbach | Siegen-Niederschelden | 1465 | 1928 | 850 | |
Brotherhood | Siegen-Eiserfeld | around 1400 | 1958 | 1274.8 | |
Colorful cow | Siegen-Niederschelden | 17th century | 1903 | ||
Eisenzecher train | Siegen-Eiserfeld | 1495 | 1960 | 1343.33 | |
Eiserfelder Spies | Siegen-Eiserfeld | 1884 | 694.28 | ||
Iron spike | Siegen-Eiserfeld | 1835 | 1897 | 186 | |
Fortuna | Siegen-Niederschelden | 1827 | 1928 | 115 | |
Prince Moritz | Freudenberg-Niederndorf | 1856 | 1943 | 160 | |
Green lion | Siegen-Gosenbach | 1465 | 1906 | 283 | |
Hamberg | Siegen-Gosenbach | 1417 | 1942 | 800 | |
Honeymouth | Siegen-Gosenbach | 1482 | 1942 | 800 | |
Junkernburg | Siegen-Niederschelden | around 1770 | 1903 | 32 | |
Coal brook | Siegen-Eiserfeld | 1694 | 1958 | 337.4 | |
Copper chew | Siegen-Gosenbach | before 1759 | 1942 | 330 | |
Lurzenbach | Siegen-Gosenbach | 1482 | 1942 | 600 | |
Storch & Schöneberg | Siegen-Gosenbach | 1585 | 1942 | 1162.7 | |
United Henriette | Siegen-Niederschelden | 1870 | 1923 | 675 |
See also
literature
- T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen . Bonn 1887.
- Ute Bosbach, Achim Heinz, Wolfgang Stössel: Searching for traces in Eisenland. Out and about on ore roads and miner's trails. Amadeusmedien, Betzdorf 2006, ISBN 3-9808936-8-5 .
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )