Eleanor's Pit
| Eleanor's Pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Opencast mining , tunnel construction | ||
| Funding / total | 1,576,795 t of iron ore | ||
| Rare minerals | Anchorite , Beraunite , Hausmannite , Kakoxen , Psilomelan , Rhodochrosite , Wavellite , Strengite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 325 | ||
| Start of operation | 1866 | ||
| End of operation | December 3, 1929 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown iron ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '12 " N , 8 ° 34' 50" E | ||
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| local community | Biebertal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | to water | ||
| country | State of Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Wetzlar | ||
The Eleanor mine at the foot of the Dünsberg in Biebertal was one of the most important mines there . Manganese-containing brown iron stone was mined.
Origin and history
On May 2, 1856, the Eleanor mine in Corridor VI of the Fellingshausen district was awarded to the Frankfurt iron dealer JM Bastert, who was trained in Gießen . The name should go back to Bastert's eldest daughter, Eleonore Elisabethe.
In 1864, on September 10th, the mine was transferred to the newly founded Fellingshäuser Bergwerks-Gesellschaft based in Frankfurt am Main . Bastert held 40 percent of the company's share capital of 250,000 guilders . The customers of the high-manganese limonite were after information by the Fellingshäuser mine company smelters in Saarland , Luxembourg and eastern France which improve the quality of pig iron their Minette - Erzmöller admitted.
In order to be able to divert the groundwater cut in the open-cast mine, the 700-meter-long August tunnel was driven about 100 meters above the stone mill on the Bieber - Königsberg road and completed in 1869.
In 1872/73 the mine changed hands again and passed to the Stumm brothers in Neunkirchen near Saarbrücken. In 1890 the 1,052 m long Ida tunnel (water solution and conveying tunnel) was dug and ended in the east camp in 1895 (although the projected length was once 1,350 m). In 1907 civil engineering began. A blind shaft was sunk in the Ida tunnel. The required hoisting machine was supplied by its own power station. In 1917, the mine with 325 employees (including 57 Ukrainian prisoners of war) and an annual output of 70,728 t of ore, due to the armaments production during the First World War, reached its highest level of employment.
The production declined in the 1920s due to sales difficulties, depletion of the ore deposits and reduced quality of the ore. Therefore the mine was closed on March 12, 1929.
The former operating areas of the mine can still be seen today on the edge of the forest north of the Bieber district by the heaps and deep open-cast mine holes.
Delivery rates
The total output of the mine was 1,576,795 t of iron ore.
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Mineral finds
A total of 16 minerals recognized by the IMA as well as six varieties were discovered in the Eleanor mine , including ankerite , calcite , hausmannite , kakoxen , manganite, psilomelan , quartz , rhodochrosite and wavellite . The pit is also a type locality for the mineral Strengite .
Another discovered in the pit and after this as Eleonorit referred Mineral turned out in subsequent studies to be identical to Beraunit or its variety Oxiberaunit out.
Mining of the Lahn-Dill area
literature
- Rolf Georg, Rainer Haus and Karsten Porezag: Eisenerzbergbau in Hessen , Ed. Förderverein visitor mine Fortuna, Wetzlar 1986, ISBN 3-925619-01-1
Web links
- Mineralienatlas : Type locality Grube Eleonore
- Mindat - type locality Eleonore Mine, Rodheim-Bieber, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany
- Mining in the Biebertal at the foot of the Dünsberg , PDF document on homersheimat.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Riemann: Description of the Wetzlar mountain district . Adolphus Marcus, Bonn 1878, p. 147 .
- ↑ pit Eleonore on www.routeyou.com
- ↑ a b c Grube Eleonore on www.industriekultur-mittelhessen.de
- ↑ a b c d e f Mining in the Biebertal at the foot of the Dünsberg , PDF document on homersheimat.de
- ^ Bieber - A place that was never allowed to be independent , compiled by Frank Reif, ed. Der Heimatverein Rodheim-Bieber, 1997, p. 84ff
- ↑ Mineral Atlas: Eleonorit
- ↑ Mindat - Eleonorite