Blumenthal / Haard mine

Blumenthal / Haard mine
General information about the mine
Schacht An der Haard 1 in Datteln.
Mining technology	Underground mining
Information about the mining company
Operating company	RAG Aktiengesellschaft
Start of operation	1992
End of operation	2001
Successor use	Consolidation to the Auguste Victoria / Blumenthal mine
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 41 '48.4 "  N , 7 ° 15' 18.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '48.4 "  N , 7 ° 15' 18.7"  E
Location Blumenthal / Haard mine
local community	Recklinghausen, Oer-Erkenschwick, Haltern, Marl
District ( NUTS3 )	Recklinghausen
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

The Blumenthal / Haard mine was a composite mine in the Ruhr area .

Pit field

The mine field of the mine lay under the towns of Recklinghausen , Oer-Erkenschwick , Haltern and Marl .

history

1992 decided Ruhrkohle AG , the coal mine General Blumenthal Recklinghausen with the colliery Ewald continued in Oer-Erkenschwick merge. This happened on October 1, 1992. The composite mine received:

• the conveyor systems Ewald continuation 1/2/3 and General Blumenthal 1/2/6
• the central conveyor shaft Blumenthal / Haard 11 ⊙
• the cableway shafts General Blumenthal 8, Haltern 1/2 ⊙ and An der Haard 1 ⊙
• the Ewald weather shafts continued 4/5, General Blumenthal 3/4 and General Blumenthal 7

The mine produced over 3 million tons annually.

Headframe of the An der Haard 1 shaft (2017)

In 1997 the Haard 2 shaft (previously Ewald continuation) was backfilled . The General Blumenthal 1 shaft followed in 1998. The Haard site was completely abandoned in 1999. This was followed by the demolition of the Haard 1/2/3 and Haard 4/5 pits. Furthermore, the General Blumenthal / Haard mine was merged with the Auguste Victoria colliery in Marl to form the Auguste Victoria / Blumenthal joint mine . This took place on June 30, 2001, giving up the General Blumenthal site. In the same year, the An der Haard 1 shaft was shut down. The General Blumenthal 4 and 7 shafts were backfilled in 2001. In 2002, the General Blumenthal 2, 3, 6 and 8 shafts followed, from December 2006 the Haltern 1/2 shafts and the An der Haard 1 shaft in 2015. The demolition of the surface facilities of the An der Haard 1 shaft began in May 2020.

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  Blumenthal / Haard 11 mine in Wanne-Eickel

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  Shafts holders 1/2 in holders

literature

• Manfred Bernauer: Chronicle 1949/1997 General Blumenthal - Blumenthal / Haard , 2nd chronicle for the 125th anniversary, publisher: Bergwerk Blumenthal / Haard 1998, printing: DSK Copy + Print Service.
• Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
• Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines (series Die Blauen Bücher ). Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus, 6th, expanded and updated edition. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 , pp 291-292.

Web links

Commons : Bergwerk Blumenthal / Haard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~16~11644

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Lehnert, Gerhard Verk: Above - Underground. Mining in Oer-Erkenschwick . Sutton, Erfurt 2003, ISBN 3-89702-523-X , p. 127.
2. ↑ Uwe Wallkötter, Jörg Müller: Association fights for the preservation of the Haardschachtes . In: Dattelner Morgenpost , November 7, 2018, accessed on May 16, 2020.
3. ↑ Fabian Hollenhorst: Forest is growing again above the shaft. In: Stimberg Zeitung , May 14, 2020, p. 4.