George pit
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / total | 6.5 million tons of iron ore | ||
| Rare minerals | Bournonite , clinomimetite , linneit , millerite , tetrahedrite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 550 (around 1950) | ||
| Start of operation | 1338 | ||
| End of operation | March 31, 1965 | ||
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| Degradation of | Iron ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 968 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 34 '2 " N , 7 ° 31' 20" E | ||
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| Location | Willroth | ||
| local community | Willroth | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Altenkirchen | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Bergrevier Hamm an der Sieg | ||
The Georg mine was an iron ore mine in the municipality of Willroth . The headframe rises as an industrial monument visible from afar above the A3 federal motorway .
geology
Aisle means
The corridors of the pit were together 170 m long and partly between 40 and 50 m thick . They were filled with up to 18 m thick iron stone and small amounts of copper , lead and zinc ores , in the upper depths also brown iron stone . It is divided into three separate remedies:
- The "western mean" was 17 m long and on average 5 m thick.
- The "horseshoe means" was 45 m long and between 6 and 20 m thick.
- The "Eastern Middle" was 60 m long and between 4 and 20 m thick. It ran from west to east, followed by a strand 30 m long and 2 to 3 m thick.
history
Beginnings
The history of Willrother mining has been documented since the 14th century. The mine was first mentioned in 1338. Until 1771 it was operated by self-employed workers. Between 1803 and 1815 the mine was under the rule of Nassau-Weilburg . Only then did more regular operations return, as the operation now belonged to Prussia . In 1811 an inheritance tunnel , the "deep Sankt Georgsstollen", was created and from 1815 civil engineering was carried out using a reel . The tunnel reached after eleven years of construction, a length of 533 m at a depth m from 73rd
Mechanization of mining since the 19th century
With the purchase of the Horhausen iron ore mines by Alfred Krupp in 1865, an accelerated mechanization of mining began. Two years later, Krupp had a machine shaft sunk . This initially received a 20 HP steam engine for extraction and in 1885 was already 155 m deep. The entire depth of the shaft was later 968 m.
In the years 1898/99 a cable car to the Louise mine was built to transport the ores . This was used until the mine was closed in 1930. In 1892 the Grimscheid mine , also located in the municipality of Willroth, was taken over. It had been in operation since 1803 and was shut down in 1925. After that the dismantling was done via the Georg pit . In 1926 the "Sieg-Lahn-Bergbaugesellschaft mbH" acquired the mine and modernized the plant two years later. It got new electrical conveying and processing systems and a new wash house . In the course of the global economic crisis, the production on Georg was stopped between 1930 and 1933.
New beginning after the Second World War
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Production was briefly interrupted towards the end of the Second World War. In the autumn of 1946, funding was resumed with 535 employees, funded by the Marshall Plan and funds from the Coal and Steel Community . In 1952 a second shaft was sunk. This was 913 m deep and received a 56 m high headframe, which is still standing today and can be seen from afar. From 1953 the Georg mine owned belonged to Erzbergbau Siegerland AG . In 1964 the workforce had 370 employees and extracted 740 tons of ore per day from a depth of 850 m. The last shift was run on March 31, 1965 and the mine officially closed on May 21, 1965. Together with the Füssenberg mine, it was the last mine in the Siegerland . With its closure, a 3000 year old tradition of ore mining in the Siegerland ore mining region came to an end.
Industrial monument
The relatively young but rusting headframe was registered as an industrial monument in 1988 and restored between 1994 and 1996 with state subsidies. The 70 m long hanging bench is at a height of 25 m. Since 2001 the headframe can be viewed and climbed monthly or by arrangement. Contact persons are the Willroth Citizens' Initiative or the Tourist Office of the Flammersfeld Association .
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g G. Wolf: Description of the mountain district Hamm an der Sieg ; Bonn 1885
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1859
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1866
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1871
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1895
- ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1898
- ^ A b c Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Der Füssenberg - The great time of the Siegerland iron ore mining , Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften-Verlag Gütersloh, 1994.
- ^ Mining history of the community of Willroth
