Brandenburg mine
The Brandenburg mine ( Brandenburg mine , Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego "Wawel" ) is a former hard coal mine in the Ruda district of Ruda Śląska in Poland.
history
After previously (occupied from 1751) in the area of the village Ruda had been dug close to the surface of coal, the Baron von Stechow in Ruda was the most 1 November 1770 mining area "Brandenburg" awarded ; it came into the possession of the Ballestrem family by inheritance in 1798 . The mine was soon expanded to include the fields “Fabrique” (1823) and “New Brandenburg” (1834) and united under the name Consolidierte Brandenburg . From 1857 the coal mining also took place in the "Neu Veronika" field and from 1888 in the "Ehrenfried II" field, so that the mine had an area of 1.77 km².
The reduction was initially through tunnels , from a trough of propelled had been. In 1823 civil engineering was started by sinking the “Fanny” shaft . In 1912 the following shafts were operated in the mine field : “Franz / Franciszek” (317 m; sunk in 1857) for the eastern cableway , “Johann” (226 m; sunk in 1860) and “Baptist” (328 m) as production shafts and Leo (297 m ) for the western cableway and as a retracting weather shaft. Three flushing shafts were used to offset the sand , two more weather shafts together with Leo for ventilation. The third weather shaft was also used by the Wolfgang mine , which had the same owners.
In 1924 the mine, now in Poland, was renamed in Bronibor and then in Wawel . For further history after the merger with Wolfgang from 1931 see Walenty-Wawel . At this time, which is encouraging to Brandenburg and applied to the coal Wolfgang -a-days been brought. The name changes and mergers can be seen both in connection with the division of Ballestrem's property in 1922 through the division of Silesia and the numerous restructuring of the coal and steel industry in this region in the following years (production in 1873: 112,381 t; 1913: 924,369 t).
present
At the old location of the Brandenburg mine , the headframe over the “Franciszek” shaft and some elaborately designed administration buildings are still present.
swell
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
- Kurt König: The coal mining in Upper Silesia from 1945–1955. Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Published by the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute. Marburg 1958.
- Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phönix-Verlag, Kattowitz / Breslau / Berlin 1913. Digitized version at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 (last accessed on May 5, 2015)
- At the Internet address http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS (last accessed July 14, 2015) you can find 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files showing the field boundaries, seams and shafts show the stock from 1902 in excellent quality. These cards were issued by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung Breslau”.
Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 54.2 ″ N , 18 ° 51 ′ 32.9 ″ E