Atsch pit

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Remaining part of the building of the former mine, today a residential building (2011)

The Atsch mine is a former hard coal mine in the western part of the Inderevier near the town of Atsch on the border between Münsterkohlberg and Eschweiler Kohlberg . The site is now in the area of ​​the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The coal seams stored here have been mined in Pingen since the 14th century . In the 18th century water-driven pumping stations were used, so that mining operations below the groundwater level and below the valley floor of the Inde became possible. In 1738, the so-called Atsch journeymen were granted permission by Elector Karl Philipp as Duke of Jülich to build a deepening pump, and by 1772 the mining operation had reached a depth of around 40 meters. After the dewatering used art gradient was transferred to another owner, the mine operation is set 1784th From 1810, the hydropower plant was used to operate a mill.

In 1800 the Eschweiler mine owner and later mayor Carl Englerth submitted an unsuccessful application for a license to exploit the Atsch and Birkengang mines , but his wife Christine Englerth succeeded in acquiring 62/72 of the Atsch shares by 1832. With the remaining 10/72 of the blacksmith Johann Rüben, who was the only one who refused to sell, a Société civile (= civil society) was founded in 1832 to restart the Atsch.

In 1834, the Atscher mine field with a size of 217 hectares was added to the 2,500 hectare concession for coal deposits acquired by Christine Englerth in 1833 . This concession related to the places Eschweiler , Frenz , Inden , Lamersdorf , Lucherberg , Nothberg and Weisweiler .

In 1845 the Atsch mine - now owned by the Eschweiler Bergwerkverein EBV - was set up with a new extraction shaft , but its highest extraction rate only reached 15% of the total output of the EBV. It reached its maximum depth of 220 m in 1860 , produced around 24,000 tons of coal in 1865 and was abandoned in 1870 due to insufficient coal reserves that were worth building .

literature

  • Kohlhaas, Anton, history of hard coal mining in today's urban area of ​​Stolberg (Rhld.). Contributions to the history of Stolberg and local history, Vol. 12, Stolberg 1965.

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 43.2 ″  E