Well of happiness

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Well of happiness
General information about the mine
Funding / total 1.79 million tons of iron ore
Rare minerals Anchorite
Information about the mining company
Employees 350
Start of operation 1650
End of operation March 31, 1930
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Iron ore
Greatest depth 771 m
Geographical location
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '41 "  N , 7 ° 50' 57.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '41 "  N , 7 ° 50' 57.3"  E
Glücksbrunnen (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Well of happiness
Location of Glücksbrunnen
Location Wingendorf (Fischbacherhütte)
local community Churches (victory)
District ( NUTS3 ) Altenkirchen
country State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
District Daaden-Kirchen mountain area

Glücksbrunnen was a mine in Wingendorf ( Fischbacherhütte ), a district of Kirchen in the Altenkirchen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was the most important of many mines in the Kirchen area.

history

The pit was created in 1650. From 1800 ore was mined, from 1822 there was a connection to the Provinzialstraße, from 1888 the connection to the Asdorftalbahn . Civil engineering began in 1870. Shaft I was created as a blind shaft. In 1882 it reached a depth of 112 m, on which four levels were distributed. The ore was extracted at a speed of 4 m / s. As adit served Daniel tunnel . This was the legacy of the mine and met the corridor in 1864 with a length of 690 m. A consolidation followed with the following pits:

  • United Bornkaute
  • pagan
  • Carl's blessing
  • Steel well
  • Etzborn
  • Friedrich Anton

This was probably related to the sale to the Krupp company in 1872. In 1855, 3,436 t of iron stone were extracted, in 1869 it was 8,022 t and in 1880 19,757 t. Shaft II was sunk from 1908. It had a size of 3.71 × 2.00 m and a depth of 771 m. The first cable ride took place in 1914. The 900 m long imperial tunnel served as the conveyor tunnel . In 1926 50,400 tons of iron ore were mined. The mine had up to 350  members of the workforce , at last there were 199. They lost their jobs on March 31, 1930 when the mine was closed . A total of 1.79 million tons of iron ore were mined.

The corridors of the pit were up to 350 m long and between one and four meters thick. They consisted of spate iron stone with lead luster in strings.

See also

literature

  • Ute Bosbach: Searching for traces in Eisenland - On the way on ore roads and miners ' paths, amadeusmedien, November 2006. ISBN 3-9808936-8-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A. Ribbentrop: Description of the Daaden-Kirchen mountain area ; Bonn 1882
  2. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1865
  3. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1857
  4. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1870
  5. ^ Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Der Füssenberg - The great time of the Siegerland iron ore mining , Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften-Verlag Gütersloh, 1994.

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