Gilberg mine

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Gilberg
General information about the mine
Funding / total 1.6 million tons of iron ore
Rare minerals Dickite , pyrargyrite , bornite , brochantite , chalcoalumite , langite , cuprite
Information about the mining company
Employees 269 ​​(1889)
Start of operation around 1580
End of operation July 1, 1925
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Iron ore
Greatest depth 624 m
Geographical location
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '29 "  N , 7 ° 59' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '29 "  N , 7 ° 59' 37"  E
Gilberg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Gilberg
Location Gilberg
Location Eiserfeld
local community Wins
District ( NUTS3 ) Siegen-Wittgenstein
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Bergrevier Siegen II

The pit Gilberg was a mine in Siegen district Eiserfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia . The mine was at times the most important mine in the Siegen II mining area and was the largest of numerous pits on the Gilberg between Eiserfeld and the formerly independent town of Hengsbach .

Aisle means

The corridors Gilberg (up to 6 m thick and up to 700 m long), Expectation , Anna and Neuer Gilberg served as corridors . The latter was 0.3–0.6 m thick in the color gallery . Brown stone and spate iron stone with some copper ore were used.

history

The pit was first mentioned as early as 1580. There were several tunnels :

  • Dax tunnel , laid out from 1613
  • 56 m below: paint tunnels , built before 1613
  • 45 m below: Sinterbacher tunnel , built before 1465, from 1879 belonging to Gilberg. In 1865 it reached a length of 360 m.
  • 37 m below: Gilberg-Hengsberger Erbstollen , built from April 28, 1835. In 1865, a length of 184 m was reached, in 1866 it was already 226 m.
  • Deep tunnel in the Siegtal, built from 1862
year Delivery rate
1855 2,811 t
1859 2,336 t
1863 8,922 t
1866 13,287 t
1870 13,364 t
year advancement
1878 25,000 t
1885 23,079 tons
1894 37,185 t
1897 39,574 t
1903 22,087 t

Civil engineering began in 1879, and on August 1st of that year work began to sink a shaft . The first cable trip took place in 1881. The shaft had a size of 3.2 × 5.2 m and a depth of 624 m. The shaft was equipped in 1883 with a twin steam engine for extraction and three steam boilers. After the pit was closed , it was not backfilled . The total depth of the pit was 624 m and was reached in 1912.

From the 1850s, the mine began to grow. In 1867 it had the sixth highest iron ore production in the Siegerland with a production of 8,922 t.

From 1892, the mining was operated with compressed air . In 1885, 184 members of the workforce were still working at the Gilberg , in 1889 there were already 269, at last there were 68. On July 1, 1925, the mine was closed. Between 1884 and 1925 892,917 t of iron ore were mined, a total of 1.6 million t. It was brought to the Eisern-Siegen Railway via a cable car and loaded there. In July 2004 there were day breaks in the mine area .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst G. Koch (ed.): Eiserfeld in the green wreath of the mountains. Publishing house Gudrun Koch, Siegen 1992; P.56
  2. ^ A b c Horst G. Koch: Queen of the iron stone pits - Eisenzecher Zug / Reinhold-Forster-Erbstollen , Verlag Gudrun Koch, Siegen 1986.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
  4. ^ A b Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1866
  5. ^ A b Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1867
  6. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1863
  7. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1857
  8. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1860
  9. ^ A b Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Der Füssenberg - The great time of the Siegerland iron ore mining , Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften-Verlag Gütersloh, 1994.
  10. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1871
  11. ^ FM Simmersbach: History of mining in the Siegerland region, Bochum / Berlin 1881 (PDF; 243 kB)
  12. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1895
  13. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1898

literature

  • Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Between “Alter Flußberg” and “Thalsbach” - Numerous old pits mined on Gilberg , in: Eiserfeld in the green crown of the mountains . In: Horst G. Koch (Hrsg.): Eiserfeld in the green wreath of the mountains. Verlag Koch, Siegen 1992.

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