Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Cleofas
The Mine Kleofas (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Kleofas ) was a coal mine in Katowice- Obroki, Poland .
history
The Cleophas mine (the spelling Kleofas was introduced later) was founded in 1840, mining began in 1845. Initially (as of 1855) the mine consisted of the fields Adam, Eva, Joseph, Jenny and Rinaldo, later Beatenssegen II, Zur God's grace and Christmas Eve added, so that in 1912 the authorized area covered a total of 4.94 km². Half of the colliery belonged to Karl Godulla and the other half to the Jewish merchant and trader Löbl Freund. Coal production was stopped in 1867 and, under the direction of Georg von Giesches Erben, it was not resumed until 1886, when the company no longer turned to zinc production but to hard coal mining. Only now was it possible to think of a solution to the problem that there was a 70 m thick diluvial cover of the seam-bearing layers at the manhole starting points near the Upper Silesian railway line , which led to considerable water inflows and which could only be controlled by efficient dewatering . Another problem was that there were almost 300 meters between the morning red seam and the saddle seam layers.
On March 3, 1896, a fire broke out that killed around 110 miners.
In 1912 the mine was divided into three sections, which were defined horizontally and not vertically. The uppermost (first) department had floors at depths of 126 and 162 m and had the Walter and Schwarzenfeld II conveyor and cable car shafts; the Caesar shaft was used for ventilation . The middle and second section (levels IV 444 m and V 510 m) mined a 5.5 m thick saddle seam and had the Recke and Ulrich shafts. The third section built by the same soles of the 7.5 m thick Gerhardflöz, and raised its coal on the Frankenberg manhole to day . Ventilation took place via the Ulrich and Schwarzenfeld I shafts. Viewed vertically, the three named shafts Walter, Recke and Frankenberg formed the central conveyor system of the mine, in which the coal was also processed and loaded.
Before Kleofas merged with the Gottwald mine in 1974, the mine had seven shafts, six of which had existed for almost 100 years. The central system had the shafts Fortuna III (Recke), II (Walter) and I (Frankenberg), a secondary system via shaft Wschodni (Schwarzenfeld; now also shaft Christoph) and the three weather shafts Zachodni (Caesar), Ulrich (Ulrich) and Bederowice.
In 1990 it was merged with the Gottwald / Eminenz colliery , and the coal that was mined was brought to light on Kleofas alone. After a brief merger with Katowice / Ferdinand, the mine was shut down in October 2004. (Production 1913: 1.09 million t; 1938: 109.905 t; 1970: 1.97 million t)
present
Until 2014 there were still some ruins (belt bridges; laundry ; loading) of the central shaft system, which were then completely demolished. Only the scaffolding over the Wschodni shaft at ul. Bocheńskiego remained.
swell
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
- 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.
- Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phoenix Publishing House. Katowice, Breslau, Berlin. 1913. ( Digitized version , last accessed on May 5, 2015)
Web links
- At the Internet address http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS (last accessed July 14, 2015) you can find 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files showing the field boundaries, seams and shafts show the stock from 1902 in excellent quality. These cards were made by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. Breslau ”published.
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 6.3 ″ N , 18 ° 58 ′ 1.3 ″ E