Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Gottwald

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The mine Gottwald ( Pol . Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Gottwald ) was a coal mine in Katowice-Dąb , Poland . With the exception of three historical buildings and the headframe over the Jerzy / George shaft, the daytime facilities were demolished and the Silesia City Center was built on the site .

history

Eminence pit

The coal mine was located in Katowice in the Dąb district near today's Chorzowska Street. In 1903 the right of 1.18 km² for the mining of coal was granted under the name Eminenz, the construction of the colliery under this name (dedicated to the "Eminence", i.e. the Breslau Cardinal Georg von Kopp ) began in December 1906 and the first shaft was named Georg. It belonged to the Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Bytom and the Catholic parish of Chorzów and was created from the disused field of the Waterloo colliery , some parts of the Königsgrube / Król and small, adjacent mine fields.

In 1912, the shaft Georg has a depth reaches 304 meters and built on the soles III (138 m), IV (219 m) and V (297 m) from coal. This shaft had a separation and a siding, in contrast to shaft II, which was sunk 900 m away from Georg and which served both the extraction and the weather management . In 1912 it was only 80 m deep. A second 100 m deep weather shaft was added later. At this point in time, the mine was producing 313,794 tons of coal.

Belonging to the Waterloo union in 1926, the mine was leased to Huta Pokój in 1928 , and from 1931 it belonged to the Ruda coal union. The slave laborers employed there during the Second World War lived in Załęże. After the war ended, the mine belonged to the Katowice Coal Industry Association ( Katowickie Zjednoczenie Przemysłu Węglowego ). In 1953 the name of the Eminenz colliery in Gottwald was changed in honor of the first communist president and dictator of Czechoslovakia, Klement Gottwald.

God Forrest

At the beginning of the 1970s the annual production of the mine was over 1 million tons. On April 1, 1974, the two mines Gottwald and Kleofas from the Załęże district were merged under the name Gottwald.

At that time Gottwald had the three shafts Jerzy (George) and Powietrzny I and II .

When the mine was shut down in 1990, the rest of the workforce was transferred to Kleofas , and this mine continued to work independently for a few years.

Funding figures

1913: 340,852 t; 1938: 663,495 t; 1970: 1.07 million t; 1979: 2.80 million t

literature

  • Jerzy Jaros. Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
  • Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phoenix Publishing House. Katowice, Breslau, Berlin. 1913. Digitized records under http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 ago
  • 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.

Web links

  • At the Internet address http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS you can find 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files, which show field boundaries, seams and shafts according to the stock from 1902 in excellent quality . These cards were made by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. Breslau ”published.