Marienstein mine
| Marienstein mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke AG | ||
| Employees | approx. 300 (last) | ||
| Start of operation | 1850 | ||
| End of operation | March 31, 1962 | ||
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| Degradation of | Cement marl / pitch coal | ||
| Degradation of | Pitch coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 45 '57 " N , 11 ° 39' 27" E | ||
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| local community | Waakirchen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Miesbach | ||
| country | Free State of Bavaria | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Marienstein mine was a coal mine of the Upper Bavarian pitch coal deposits between Lech and Inn in what is now the municipality of Waakirchen in the Miesbach district . In the Marienstein district , over four million tons of coal were mined from 1852 to 1962. There was also a mining site for cement marl for cement production.
history
The origin of the coal mine goes back to the discovery of marl cement in 1835 by the owner of the Oberkammerlohe estate with the name Paul Deuringer. He discovered this cement marl deposit in Holzwiesenthal, which is now called Marienstein. As a result, Deuringer built a cement works in the Waakirchen district of Kammerloh in 1850. In order to be able to mine the marl, he built a tunnel that crossed a pitch coal deposit. The coal deposit was already known from the geologist Carl Wilhelm von Gümbel . On August 16, 1852, Deuringer received permission to mine coal from the Mining Authority in Munich. First he mined the coal for the cement works' own use.
The then newly founded "Union Oberkammerlohe" took over the business in 1872 through a sale. By 1891, railway workers built a siding from the Schaftlach train station on the Holzkirchen – Lenggries railway line . In 1902 the “Marienstein Union” was founded and commercial promotion began with it. Starting in 1904, the shaft was gradually sunk, initially to 120 meters, then in 1906/07 to 220 meters and later to 564 meters. In 1951 the BHS-Bayerische Berg-, Hütten- und Salzwerke took over the mine. After a coal crisis broke out, mining had to be stopped on March 31, 1962. Most recently the mine had around 300 miners.
literature
- Black gold in Upper Bavaria. The coal mining between Lech and Inn , publisher: Knappenverein Peißenberg 2012, pp. 14–15
- Wilhelm Hausmann, Franz Xaver Silbernagl: Hausham Chronicle of approx. 1970, pp. 194–196
- Hans Winklmair: Chronicle of Marienstein and others , from around 2005