Concordia mine (Herdorf)
| Concordia | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / total | 1.8 million tons of iron ore | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 200 | ||
| Start of operation | 1873 | ||
| End of operation | February 29, 1962 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Iron ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 882 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '13 " N , 7 ° 57' 53" E | ||
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| Location | north of Dermbach | ||
| local community | Herdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Altenkirchen | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Daaden-Kirchen mountain area | ||
The pit Concordia was one of the most efficient iron ore mines in Herdorf in district Altenkirchen in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was away from the district of Dermbach in the direction of Eiserfeld .
history
The pit was built on two passageways with a thickness of 1 to 2.5 m. In addition to Eisenstein , they carried a lot of copper ore .
The deep tunnel was excavated in the second half of the 19th century. In 1873 the Concordia mine was muted. The production in the first year amounted to 5125 t Spateisenstein , 415 t Brauneisenstein and 123 t copper ore. Civil engineering began in 1880 . The shaft of the pit had a size of 3.77 × 1.6 m and had a depth of 670 m. The total depth was 882 m. In 1882 two tunnels were built. The two tunnels went deep into the earth, the first up to 37 m below the surface. The deepest was up to 100 m underground. In 1907 there was a consolidation with the Harteborn mine , which until then belonged to the Steimel mine . Next to her, the Hüttenwäldchen pit ( "Hüttenwäldchenstollen" ) belonged to the Concordia.
From 1910 the Concordia mine belonged to the Eisenzecher Zug mine . While 22,221 t were extracted in 1903, in 1905 it was already 36,339 t of iron ore. In 1912, the breakthrough to the iron mine took place on the 350 m level. On September 12, 1922, both cages of the pit fell due to an operator error , there were three dead and one trapped on the 450-m level, but who could be freed after three days.
In 1923 the production was stopped due to the economic crisis. From 1882 to 1924 the “Kunstertaler Bahn”, the narrow-gauge railway from the Kunst mine to Concordia , ran from then on from the Eiserfeld side. In 1936 the conveyor systems were modernized. In 1953, the mining was abandoned after the underground burned. On February 29, 1962, it was finally shut down. Up to 200 employees mined a total of 1.8 million tons of iron ore .
Until February 1990, the “deep tunnel” served as a water supply for the leisure home that was built from the mine buildings in 1970 . Already at the end of the 1920s, the mine buildings were leased by the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Frauenhilfe". She wanted to set up a maternity home there. Today the Polish meeting place "Haus Concordia" is located at the mine.
See also
literature
- Ute Bosbach: Searching for traces in Eisenland - On the way on ore roads and miners ' paths, amadeusmedien, November 2006. ISBN 3-9808936-8-5
Web links
- City of Herdorf: Former mining in Herdorf
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b A. Ribbentrop: Description of the mountain district Daaden-Kirchen ; Bonn 1882
- ^ A b Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Stahlberg, Hollertszug and Eisenzeche - From collieries and mines of the Siegerland , Verlag Höppner & Göttert, Siegen 1997
- ↑ pit Concordia, Herdorf.de , accessed on 11 April 2017th
- ^ Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Der Füssenberg - The great time of the Siegerland iron ore mining , Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften-Verlag Gütersloh, 1994.
- ^ Gerhard Latsch: Presentation of Dernbach. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Horst G. Koch: Queen of the iron stone pits. - Eisenzecher Zug / Reinhold-Forster-Erbstollen , Verlag Gudrun Koch, Siegen 1986.
- ↑ The Concordia. In: herdorf.de. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .