Gustavszeche mine
| Gustavszeche mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1872 | ||
| End of operation | 1941 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown iron ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 37 '25 " N , 8 ° 34' 36" E | ||
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| local community | Biebertal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | to water | ||
| country | State of Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Wetzlar | ||
The Gustavszeche mine was a mining company in the Biebertal near the district of Bieber near Gießen . There, brown iron manganese ores occurring like nests were mined. It is one of the mines in the Lahn-Dill area .
Origin and history
The pit field was awarded on August 1, 1872 under the name "Rimberg".
After an out-of-court settlement between the coal and steel entrepreneur JJ Jung and Wilhelm Briel in 1878, the mine field passed into the sole ownership of the family entrepreneur Jung under the name "Gustavszeche".
After many years of operation as a single field of the “Abendstern” consolidating mine, it was possible in the summer of 1926 to sell part of the stockpiles stored on the “Gustavszeche” to brickworks as colored ore. When the demand for colored ores persisted, the current operator (Mannesmann) carried out research work in the mine field with a workforce of four miners. To facilitate removal, a conveyor tunnel and a wooden loading ramp, the retaining wall of which is still standing today, was built on the Bieber-Hof Haina road in 1927.
From 1941 onwards there was no more mining at the Gustavszeche.
Mining of the Lahn-Dill area
literature
- The Dünsberg and the Biebertal , Ed. Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal 1982, ISBN 3-9800654-0-5