Grünbach coal district

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Former Segen-Gottes-Schacht

The Grünbacher Steinkohlerevier was a coal mine in Grünbach am Schneeberg , Lower Austria. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire , the area was the largest in Austria remaining mining area for coal .

history

Commercial open- pit coal mining began between 1823 and 1825. From around 1845/1850 the first shafts were sunk with the Richardschacht and later the Segen-Gottes-Schacht . In 1924 the so-called new shaft followed as the main shaft.

The recovered coal was initially unsorted by wagon to Wiener Neustadt and from there to the Wiener Neustadt Canal to Vienna brought. The commissioning of the Schneebergbahn ultimately resulted in an increase in the transport capacity.

In 1866, in addition to three civil servants and four overseers, 348 men, twelve women and eight children produced around 39,200,000 kilograms of coal. At that time the possession of disposal Drasche Heinrich standing mine about 25 abquerende tunnels with a total length of 19,586 meters and two main shafts. A track system of 7,238 meters was available for transport in the mine. The technical equipment included four steam engines .

On November 30, 1932, the 1,026 miners went on a five-week strike. A wage increase, the improvement of security measures and an improvement of the collective agreement were called for . A delegation of striking miners made it to the Vienna City Hall despite the use of the police . However , they received no support for their cause from Mayor Karl Seitz . The strike leader was the representative of the Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition (RGO) and later Minister of the Interior Franz Honner (1893–1964), who had also worked here as a miner and had already been involved in a work stoppage on January 14, 1925. On January 6, 1933, in a general meeting of the strikers (if Honner was kept away, who would have prevented the meeting or its outcome), the strike ended without having achieved his goals.

Brief strikes were also reported in December 1938.

In April 1945 the Grünbach coal mining area was in the combat zone. Since the power supply between Ternitz and Grünbach am Schneeberg was interrupted during the fighting , the pit could no longer be pumped out from April 1, so that its deeper parts flooded and the pit had to be temporarily shut down. After the invasion of Soviet troops on April 22nd, however, the power supply was restored and the pumps could be put back into operation.

Although coal could be mined again from May 1, 1945, the complete repair of the plants took about a year. From August 1, 1946, coal mining in Grünbach was managed by the USIA as a former German property . This increased the number of miners to around 1250 men, expanded the mine technically, but was also confronted with the charge of overexploitation . With the resumption of coal production in Grünbach, the coal situation in Vienna also improved somewhat, even if the quality did not meet the technical requirements of the city gas works .

Around 1955 the annual production was between 140,000 and 170,000 tons of hard coal.

Rising costs made the hard coal mining in Grünbach unprofitable, so that in 1965 the penultimate hard coal mining (the last followed in 1967 in neighboring Höflein) in Austria was stopped. On the occasion of this closure, there was a final labor dispute by the buddies. In order to enforce compliance with the promise to receive bridging aid after the mine was closed, the miners drove into the mine on September 16, 1965, and went on strike until these funds were paid out. However, this strike lasted only nine hours.

The machine hall at the Neuschacht was subsequently used by air conditioning companies until 1999 . The Lebensbogen association has been based there since 2018 .

Description from 1866

The hard coal mine in Grünbach is described as belonging to the Gosau formation . 207 different layers with 45 hard coal seams are traversed vertically. Due to the strength, however, only 16 of them can be mined, of which the strongest are about one meter thick. The dismantling of these seams is made difficult and therefore costly by the frequent faults in the layers, which means that time and again complex excavations are necessary to find them.

In addition, mining is made more difficult by the steep to vertical position of the seams.

Maintenance of tradition

Musikverein Bergknappenkapelle Grünbach am Schneeberg

The music association Bergknappenkapelle Grünbach am Schneeberg was founded in 1920.

SV Glück-Auf-Grünbach

The soccer club SV Glück-Auf-Grünbach with the club colors green-black was founded in 1924. In the game year 1948/1949 the club was affiliated to the mine as a works team. The closure of the mining company also affected the SV due to the emigration of players and officials as well as the loss of financial security.

The club, which is now only called SV Grünbach, still has the crossed hammers in the club's coat of arms.

literature

  • Heinrich Drasche: Report on the ownership and operation of the hard coal mines of the exhibitor Heinrich Drasche . Engel, Vienna 1867.
  • Franz Honner: Strike in crisis. The lessons of the Grünbach strike . Honner, Vienna (around 1934).
  • Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction, Supreme Mining Authority (author): The Austrian Mining 1945–1955 . Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction, Supreme Mining Authority, Vienna 1955.
  • Manfred Mugrauer: Strike in the "death mine". The strike movement in the Grünbach coal mine in 1932/33 . In: Manfred Mugrauer (Red.): Messages . Alfred Klahr Society (ed.). Issue 4/2009 (December), XVI. Vintage. Vienna 2009, ZDB -ID 1238120-2 . - Full text online (PDF; 788 kB) .
  • Friedrich Zwickl: The coal grave in the mining Grünbach / Schneeberg. Kral-Verl., Berndorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-99024-265-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Oberhauser, FK Bauer: Der Geologische Aufbau Österreichs , Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1980, ISBN 978-3-211-81556-4 , p. 549 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Drasche: Report .
  3. ^ Economy and trade union. Strike in the Grünbach coal mine. Because of the unbearably low wages and because of the terrible overexploitation. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 331/1932 (XLV. Volume), November 30, 1932, p. 6. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  4. ^ Franz Honner . In: parlament.gv.at , January 2, 1990, accessed on November 17, 2012.
  5. ^ An outburst of desperation among the Grünbach miners. Demonstrations. - The factory director physically abused. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , Morgenblatt, No. 16/1925 (XXXVII. Volume), January 16, 1925, p. 6. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  6. ↑ The Grünbach strike ended. Last attempts to disrupt and utter defeat of the communists. In:  Arbeiter-Zeitung , No. 7/1933 (XLVI. Volume), 7 January 1933, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / aze.
  7. ↑ Petrus Bsteh (ed.), Brigitte Proksch (ed.): Spirituality in the conversation of religions . Lit-Verlag, Vienna s. a.
  8. ↑ The rolling death under the earth. The overexploitation of the usians in the Grünbach coal mine cost the life of a worker . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 17, 1952, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Magistratsabteilung 53 (Red.): Vienna 1946: Reports from April 1946. (…) April 24, 1946: The coal plant in Vienna . In: wien.gv.at , April 24, 1946, accessed on November 17, 2012.
  10. ↑ Miners have fought for their money . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna September 17, 1965, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  11. ^ Grünbach am Schneeberg: New facility on track. In: NÖN , January 16, 2018, accessed on August 13, 2019
  12. ^ Website of the Verein Lebensbogen , accessed on August 13, 2019.
  13. ↑ Drasche: Report .
  14. ↑ Musikverein Bergknappenkapelle Grünbach. In: bergknappenkapelle.at. Retrieved January 26, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Manfred Pilhar: History of SV Grünbach . In: sv-gruenbach.at , July 6, 2006, accessed on November 17, 2012.

Coordinates: 47 ° 48 ′ 21 ″  N , 15 ° 59 ′ 1 ″  E