Cornelia ore mine

The ore mine Cornelia was a Breiniger ore mine in the Aachen district . It comprised a mining field north of Breinig-Schützheide with a large number of individual mines , in which almost exclusively iron ore was mined. The mine supplied the Eschweiler Hütte Concordia and the Aachen ironworks Rothe Erde . Today the area belongs to the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) .

Heinrich (Henri) Hoesch III., The last Reidemeister on the Junkershammer , acquired mining rights and leased a 16 km² mine field, which he called "Cornelia", to the Eschweiler Mining Association . The mining took place on a larger scale from 1853, and in 1871 the mine field was significantly expanded. According to this, a mine workforce of around 300 people extracted up to 300 tons of iron ore per year. In 1922 the mining operations were stopped.

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• Description on Stolberg-abc.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 35 ″  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 6 ″  E