Schlebuscher Erbstollen

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Schlebuscher Erbstollen
General information about the mine
Map Schlebuscher Erbstollen.png
Course of the Schlebuscher Erbstollen (red line)
other names Trapper's hereditary tunnel
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1804
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 23 '19 "  N , 7 ° 22' 3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '19 "  N , 7 ° 22' 3"  E
Schlebuscher Erbstollen (Regional Association Ruhr)
Schlebuscher Erbstollen
Location of Schlebuscher Erbstollen
Location Wengern
local community Weather (Ruhr)
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Schlebuscher Erbstollen (originally Trapper Erbstollen is called) with its extension, the dirt bankers Erbstollen , the longest Erbstollen in coal - mining of Ruhr ( Ruhr mining ). The tunnel begins south of the Ruhr in the Wengern district , a district of Wetter (Ruhr) , from where it was driven with a slight incline to the southwest in the direction of Haßlinghausen .

The "Schlebuscher Erbstollen" is named after the Schlebuscher union, which built the Erbstollen. The name "Dreckbänker Erbstollen", on the other hand, refers to the Dreckbank union.

history

The tunnel was built from the 1780s to the middle of the 19th century. The lower part of the tunnel was started in 1765. Its sole purpose was to keep the mines connected to it free of water without the water having to be pumped out. In 1804 the tunnel reached the Trappe colliery and with it the coal fields. In the coming years, the tunnel was through the Berechtsame built further Trappe of the coal mine and behind Gevelsberg verstuft . The Schlebuscher Erbstollen ends here. In 1841, another union continued the tunnel as the Dreckbänker Erbstollen to drain the Sprockhöveler collieries and thereby disinherited the Herzkämper Erbstollen .

The tunnel reached a total length of about 13 km and reached the current city limits near Wuppertal near Sprockhövel-Herzkamp. Its mouth hole is at 87 meters above sea ​​level , it drains 38 km² of coal-bearing rock layers. With its help, the miners gained access to the coal at a depth of 140 meters . Another task of the tunnel was to bring fresh air ( fresh weather ) to the workplaces of the miners . The "Schlebuscher Erbstollen" has been in operation for 250 years now, although the connected mines have long since been closed. Large amounts of water flow from its mouth hole and flow into the Ruhr about a kilometer away . After heavy rainfall , its water flow becomes so large that the neighboring meadow is completely flooded.

In 1986 the tunnel mouth hole area with the tack room and lift shaft access was placed under monument protection. It is registered as architectural monument no. 113 in the architectural monument list of Wetter .

See also

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  • Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginnings to 1997 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144). 2nd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 1998, ISBN 3-921533-62-7 .
  • Wilhelm Hermann, 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 (= the blue books ). 6th edition expanded and updated by an excursus. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 , p. 300.

literature

  • Oliver Glasmacher: Schlebuscher Erbstollen (Wetter / Ruhr). Mining historical classification and research in: Conference proceedings (old) Mining and research in NRW 2012 [1]

Web links

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