Mountain school Düren

The Bergschule Düren was a mountain school with no name founded in 1857 in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia , which existed until 1867.

The mining school served to train technical supervisory staff for the mines in the mining authority district , which was bordered by the Rhine , the Moselle and the state borders.

history

The Mining Authority suggested Stolberg as the seat of the mountain school . However, this seat failed because of the considerable costs. In 1856 Düren was set as the location. The cost for 36 students was estimated at 4,500 thalers . On January 31, 1857, the superior Mining Authority in Bonn was commissioned by the Prussian Minister for Trade, Industry and Public Works to initiate the establishment of a Mining Authority School for the Mining Authority district immediately. The concluded founding contract dates to February 26, 1857. It was determined that the state and the mine owners each have to bear half of the costs. Classes began on July 6, 1857 with 38 students. Two rooms, a teachers' conference room and an anteroom in the Pfälzer Hof were rented. Steiger , Obersteiger, Markscheider and operations manager were trained in two classes over three years each .

A lease for the third floor of their building in Jesuitengasse was later concluded with the Provincial Blind Institution for the next ten years . On the instructions of the minister, at a conference on June 17, 1867, it was decided to close the school after only ten years for financial reasons. Steiger were trained in the future at the Siegen Mountain School. A new mountain school was opened in Bardenberg on October 7, 1866.

Individual evidence

^ Friedrich Schunder: History of the Aachen hard coal mining. 1968, p. 5 , accessed May 11, 2019 .
^ Stegemann: The Aachen mountain school . In: Festschrift of the city of Aachen on the general XI. German Miners Days . La Ruelle, Aachen, September 3, 1910, b., P. 100–104 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 4.6 MB ; accessed on September 11, 2016]).

literature

Joachim Thomas: Düren as the seat of a mining school . In: Yearbook of the Düren district . 1988, p. 41-45 .

Web links

Mountain School Aachen - maasvoll.de. In: maasvoll.de. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .
250 - X. Mining educational institutions and associations for the protection of the interests of the mining and metallurgical industry - Text - Digital collections - Portal. In: sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de. Retrieved September 11, 2016 .

50.8015 6.4858Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '5.4 " N , 6 ° 29" 8.9 " E

[1] Friedrich Schunder: History of the Aachen hard coal mining. 1968, p. 5 , accessed May 11, 2019 .

[2] Stegemann: The Aachen mountain school . In: Festschrift of the city of Aachen on the general XI. German Miners Days . La Ruelle, Aachen, September 3, 1910, b., P. 100–104 ( aachener-geschichtsverein.de [PDF; 4.6 MB ; accessed on September 11, 2016]).