Clemafin Pit
| CLEMAFIN lignite mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Clemafin colliery / mine | ||
| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Funding / year | <2000 t | ||
| Funding / total | <20,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | <37 | ||
| Start of operation | 1852 | ||
| End of operation | 1858 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
| Mightiness | 4 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '2.5 " N , 6 ° 46' 57.7" E | ||
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| local community | Euskirchen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Euskirchen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | South-western Rhenish lignite district | ||
The Clemafin mine (official name brown coal mine CLEMAFIN , also called Zeche Clemafin ) was a mine south of Euskirchen on the southwestern edge of the Rhenish brown coal area . In the middle of the 19th century, lignite of inferior quality, then called peat , was mined underground for a few years .
history
Since the lignite seams of the Lower Rhine Basin in the region Zülpich / Euskirchen as different in the Ville nowhere to the surface streak , the occurrences were there until the 19th century unknown. In 1820, the mining entrepreneur Abels had exploratory boreholes drilled in the northern Eifel foreland in search of minable mineral resources . Here, surprisingly, lignite was found near Virnich . Abel received 1822 a concession for the mining and closed mid-1820s the Abel pit on. After further drilling, Abels applied for an enlargement of his mine field and in 1832 also received the Astraea field near Juntersdorf , where he opened a second mine.
Abels' success attracted several other interested parties who also applied for concessions, including a consortium led by Clemens August Schmitz, owner of the Heisterburg near Holzheim and the hut in Eiserfey . His partners were Hieronymus Krewel, Lord of Zievel Castle , and District Administrator Johann Peter Schroeder, Lord of Wachendorf House . The group assumed a field of about 2000 hectares south of Euskirchen between Euenheim , Billig and Roitzheim . When name of the field, "CLEMAFIN" , it was a name creation formed from the first letters of the name of the consortium leader Schmitz ( Clem ens A ugust) and his wife ( Fin e).
After the expectation , the concession was initially delayed by the fact that the communities of Euenheim and Euskirchen raised objections. Both wanted to benefit from the coal discoveries in their area and operate mines themselves. After several negotiations, both objections were rejected or withdrawn; In return for giving up their resistance, the Euskirchen community was able to get a stake of one sixth in the Clemafin mine. In July 1852 the concession was granted and two shafts were sunk and a colliery was built between cheap and the Euskirchen city forest . The brown coal should be processed into Klütten .
In operation, the mine yields fell far short of expectations. The seam had a thickness m of only 4 and the coal was strong by lignite and fibrous Bastkohle contaminated. A maximum of 37 workers were employed, but they mined less than 2000 tons of coal per year. Due to the low yields - unlike the Abelsgrube - one could not afford a steam engine to drive an art , but had to laboriously pump coal and mine water by hand with reels , which in turn reduced the efficiency of the mine and thus the yields. There were also hardly any experienced miners in the area. Hope arose temporarily when Eisenstein was found in 1854 . However, since the ore did not prove to be exploitable and there was no improvement in sight in terms of coal production either, mining operations were suspended in 1958.
After being dropped, the shafts were filled and the daytime facilities were demolished, except for the mine house. The latter was initially used as a residential building. The mining field and the colliery property were taken over in 1885 for little money by the Roddergrube , which again drilled for coal, but also did not find any deposits worth mining. The former colliery house, called "Torfhaus" , burned down in 1897. Today the entire former colliery area is arable land and nothing can be seen of the mining past.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Fritz Wündisch: Brown coal mining near Euskirchen. From the “Abelsgrube” and from the “Clemafin” pit . In: Home calendar of the Euskirchen district . Schiffer, Rheinberg 1966, DNB 015111199 ( full text on wisoveg.de).
- ^ Conrad Heusler: Description of the Brühl-Unkel mining area and the lignite basin on the Lower Rhine . Verlag Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1897 ( full text in the library of the seminar for economic and social history of the University of Cologne (project Digitalis) ).
- ^ Bernhard Peter Schreiber: The brown coal between the Rhine and Rur . In: Home calendar of the Euskirchen district . Schiffer, Rheinberg 1968, DNB 015111199 ( full text on wisoveg.de).
- ↑ Wolfgang Meyer: The place Eiserfey and its history. Retrieved January 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Weyer in the Eifel: The mining. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Carl Friedrich Zincken: The brown coal and its use, Volume 1 . Carl Rümpler, Hanover 1867 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ Adolf Gurlt: Overview of the Tertiary Basin of the Lower Rhine . Bonn 1872 ( full text in the Internet Archive ).