Concordia mine (Anzhausen)
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| Mining technology | Civil engineering | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 74 (1897) | ||
| Start of operation | August 11, 1808 | ||
| End of operation | June 1, 1918 | ||
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| Degradation of | Lead , silver , copper , zinc ore | ||
| Greatest depth | > 100 m | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 '36.8 " N , 8 ° 7' 50.9" E | ||
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| Location | Anzhausen | ||
| local community | Wilnsdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Mountain area Müsen | ||
The Concordia mine was a silver and lead ore mine near Anzhausen (zu Wilnsdorf ) in the southeastern Siegerland .
history
Mining rights were first granted to lead , silver , copper and zinc ores on August 11, 1808. When the union was founded, there were a total of 21 trades and 32 Kuxen. These trades were: Appun Local Actuary from Netphen, as well as Münker and Stettner from Dreisbach. From Tiefenbach: Herntel, Zimmermann, Jost Münker, Philipp Münker, Flender, Wagner, Löhr. From Siegen: Hartmann, Weber, Fries. From Fickenhütten: Braach, Bell. Sohlbach from Dillnhütten, Rösing from Anzhausen, mare from Obersetzen, Schür and Schumacher from Niedersetzen, and Klaas from Feuersbach. Auguste and Leonhard Hierling (cupboards near Salchendorf) later joined them with Friedrich Oehm.
Another award took place on June 15, 1846 to Johann Heinrich Dietrichs & Consorten. As early as September 1846, the mine was bought by Thomas Collins Banfield in Niederschelden , and on August 15 of the same year the mining rights were granted again. The operation probably did not last long, because in May 1848 due to financial problems (the wages could not be paid) the application was made to close the mine. The mine inventory was already auctioned in 1852 and August Schnabel bought the mine from Cologne in 1853 . The mining rights were granted again on August 6, 1853. The first inspection report for the pit was then drawn up on November 16, 1854. At the time of this sale, the day shaft already had a tunnel stretch of approx. 180 m in length. Matthäus Grübener, who had worked in the Landeskrone mine up to this point, was hired and the production could be increased considerably. In 1863 there was again a union with 128 Kuxes , which was represented by Jacob Grübener from Flammersbach . In 1867 the trades August Schnabel from Cologne had 63 1/5 of the Kuxe and Jakob Oechelhäuser from Marienborn had 36 4/5 Kuxe. 900 new Kuxen were issued, which u. a. were acquired by the widow Ferdinand Achenbach and Hermann Ludwig Achenbach. As a result, the union was divided into 1,000 Kuxe. The Concordia I-III pits were consolidated in 1873 and the union was henceforth called United Concordia . In the second half of the 1880s, a new shaft with machinery was built. Until August Schnabel's death on June 7, 1876, there were further changes of ownership, so that in 1891 the mine belonged to the merchants Heinrich Drees, Ludwig Heise and Christian Foerst from Witten, Gustav Vorsteher from Wetter / Ruhr and Louis Peters from Hagen. The Bergisch-Märkischer Bergwerksverein from Letmathe came into possession of all 1,000 Kuxe on November 27, 1897.
In 1901 the company was closed, but started up again sporadically. At that time, the mine was owned by a union from Witten . Several attempts were made to sell the mine to AG Altenberger Gesellschaft Vieille Montagne for mining and zinc smelting operations, Untereschbach , but without success. On December 31, 1909, the mine was completely shut down. In 1914, before the beginning of the First World War, operations were resumed and a machine shaft was sunk down to 100 m, although the depth of the old shaft could not be reached due to the high water inflow. Operation of the mine ended again on June 1, 1918. The machines and processing plants were dismantled and were used in another company mine in the Black Forest. After 1930, Concordia belonged to the Victoria-Altenberg mining association in Littfeld. The mining rights of Concordia then lay with Erzbergbau Siegerland AG.
Between the houses at Concordiastraße 2 and 2A there is a pit entrance sealed with a steel cover, which is locked and cannot be entered.
In February 1987 a boy discovered a hole in the ground while playing. When the father lifted some stone slabs, the earth kept breaking up. That was a daybreak in the pit .
raw material
Lead, silver, copper and zinc ores were mined. The lead content in the ores was between 64 and 78%. For every 100 kg of lead ore, 60–74 g of silver could be obtained.
Delivery rates and workforce
The mine yield was not very productive. In 1897, a new processing plant (operated for just under six months) was able to process 44 t of raw ore and 4,534 t of dump material. In 1880 a turnover of 1,051 marks was recorded with the Gustav Brockhaus company in Freusburger Mühle.
| year | zinc | lead | Lead and copper |
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| 1855 | 9.8 t | 2.6 t | |
| 1858 | 12.1 t | 2 t | |
| 1880 | 102 t | ||
| 1897 | 550 t | 42.8 t |
In 1893, the workforce at the mine consisted of adults and 11 boys and one girl between the ages of 14 and 16. Work was carried out from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., interrupted by a one-hour lunch break and a half-hour break in the morning and in the afternoon. In 1894 the mine employed 31 workers, all but four of whom came from Anzhausen. In 1895 the workforce was 80 people, in 1997 when the mine was sold to the Bergisch-Märkischer Bergwerksverein 74 people.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Vitt: The industrialization of the Siegerland district of Netphen in the Prussian period 1815/16 to 1946 ( digital version of the dissertation )
- ↑ Anzhausen. (No longer available online.) In: siegen-info.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 9, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Google maps with mine facts
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )