Morgenstern union

Morgenstern union was the name of two different unions under mining law for the prospecting and extraction of hard coal and iron ore ,

• The Morgenstern union in Mülsen near Zwickau in Saxony was established in 1889 from the Morgenstern Sarfert & Wiede coal works . It operated the Martin Hoop hard coal works in the Zwickau hard coal area until nationalization .

• The Morgenstern union in Hanover was founded in 1922 and had the right to extract iron stones from Klein Döhren , in the municipality of Liebenburg in Lower Saxony . The field was transferred to the Salzgitter trade union in 1935 and mining began in the Morgenstern pit in 1938 by the raw material operations of the United Steelworks AG .

literature

• Rainer Slotta : Technical monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany - Volume 5, Part 1: The iron ore mining . German Mining Museum, Bochum 1986, p. 169-183 .
• Heinrich Korthöber et al .: Mining in Salzgitter . the history of mining and the life of miners from the beginning to the present. In: Archives of the City of Salzgitter (Ed.): Contributions to the city's history . 1st edition. tape 13 . Appelhans, Salzgitter 1997, ISBN 3-930292-05-X , p. 304-310 .
• Manfred Watzlawik et al .: Fortuna, Morgenstern, Georg-Friedrich . History and stories of ore mining near Döhren. Ed .: Döhrener Mining Working Group. 1st edition. Self-published, Groß-Döhren 1983.