Puschwitz lignite works
| Puschwitz lignite works | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
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| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '52.8 " N , 14 ° 17' 35.8" E | ||
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| Location | Pushwitz | ||
| local community | Pushwitz | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Bautzen | ||
| country | Free State of Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Lusatian lignite mining area | ||
The Puschwitz lignite plant was a mining operation in the Lausitz lignite area near Puschwitz in Saxony .
history
Upper Lusatia north of Bautzen has very rich deposits of lignite , clay and kaolin , which gave rise to lively mining as early as the middle of the 19th century. Lignite mining on the Puschwitz field began in 1817 by local farmers and the Puschwitz and Guhra manors. Production reached its first peak around 1854. When a chamotte factory was established at Wetro in 1898 , lignite was finally only mined as a by-product for its purposes.
A completely new situation arose after the Second World War when there was a general shortage of fuel. The specially founded VEB Braunkohlenwerk Puschwitz resumed mining of lignite. As early as 1950, the production reached a volume of 220,000 tons of raw lignite, a large part of which was processed into dry compacts. The products were shipped by rail on the Neschwitz – Wetro line , built in 1947 . Although the output was declining, a new compressed coal plant was built in 1956. As a result of the extensive exhaustion of supplies, the VEB lignite plant in Puschwitz was dissolved again in 1960.
The open pit operation now on the VEB refractory Wetro , the benefit of the clay extraction completely shut to 1965 coal production. From 1965 on, VEB Plastelektronik und Spezialwidererstand Dresden used the building of the brown coal works as a manufacturing facility.
literature
- Western Upper Lusatia between Kamenz and Königswartha (= values of our homeland . Volume 51). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000708-7 , pp. 154ff.