Georg Forster pit
| Georg Forster pit | |||
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| other names | Uranus | ||
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| Degradation of | Zinc lead | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '44.1 " N , 7 ° 11' 59.4" E | ||
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| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Georg Forster mine , named after the naturalist Georg Forster , was a non-ferrous metal ore mine in the Bensberg ore district in Bergisch Gladbach . The site belongs to the Herkenrath district . It has always been popularly known as "Uranus" .
location
The Georg Forster mine field extended in the vicinity of Volbach and Untervolbach . The relics of the old operating point on the uranium vault can be seen about 150 m east of the Untervolbach 73c house in a very difficult to access area. It is located at the foot of the large machine shaft dump and goes up to the Volbach. Residential houses have now been built on the former machine shaft dump.
history
The pit Georg Forster was on 30 June 1855 lead and zinc ores in the so-called Uranus transition awarded Service. This corridor ran roughly in a south-easterly direction. On November 28, 1879, the Georg Forster mine field was consolidated with the Berzelius mine and at the same time renamed to the common name of the Berzelius mine . In March 1924 there was a strike at the Georg Forster and Berzelius mines because they wanted to push through higher wages. On June 24, 1924, the mine operator turned to the Prussian Minister of Commerce and Industry with an application for the granting of monthly state subsidies for the mine operating costs. The refusal came on February 9, 1924. That meant the end for the Berzelius mine. So it was closed at the end of July 1924. Officially, however, August 1, 1924 is considered the day the mine was closed. The pit Georg Forster, on the one last another 190-m Sole had set up, was then-m level 130 on by a concrete dam closed to the water from the pit Berzelius, because they wanted to leave open the resumption of the operation. But there was no longer a reopening.
Shaft system
In view of the fact that the mine was to be put back into operation at a later date, the shaft was not backfilled at the time. Rather, it was simply covered with stones and concrete and sealed with soil. Such shafts had collapsed several times in the area in recent years. Such a misfortune was feared here too. For this reason, in August 2017, the shaft was filled with concrete slurry from the deepest depth. This work is expected to take up to a year.
literature
- Emil Buff: Description of the Deutz mountain district. Bonn 1882.
- Herbert Stahl: The mining in the Hardt and the area around Herkenrath. In: 50years of Cologne's NaturFreundehaus Hardt 1960 - 2010. Bergisch Gladbach 2010.
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes. Volume 2, The pits on the Gangerz deposits in the Bensberg ore district . Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-014668-7 .
- ↑ Giesbert Franken: Zinc mine is concreted over. The Georg Forster mine has waited a hundred years to be opened again. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, August 25, 2017, p. 33