Pit ear head
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Hörkopf | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Röchling'schen iron and steel works | ||
| Start of operation | 1828 | ||
| End of operation | 1916 | ||
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| Degradation of | Manganese / iron | ||
| Degradation of | iron | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 0 '18.9 " N , 7 ° 52' 18.2" E | ||
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| Location | Assmannshausen | ||
| local community | Rudesheim | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Rheingau-Taunus district | ||
| country | State of Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Hörkopf pit (also spelled Höhrkopf pit ) was a mine for the extraction of iron and manganese ore near Assmannshausen on the Rhine . Several extraction shafts were located on the western and southern flanks of the 378 m high summit of the Hörkopf. Operations began before 1828 and ended after 1916.
history
The ore mining at Hörkopf was mentioned for the first time in 1828, and the brownstone was shipped to France and England. The manganese dioxide was there in hydrochloric acid dissolved to chlorine for bleaching of cotton fabrics to produce. The ores were processed in a processing plant north of the Kurhaus in Assmannshausen until 1860 . In 1889 ore processing was relocated to the Speisbachtal and an ore wash with a steam engine was built, the foundations of which are still visible today.
A newly built 800 m long pit railway (narrow gauge) from the Hörkopf pit and the neighboring pits Walpurgis, Eisenbraun and Eisenloch, which have meanwhile been consolidated into Hörkopf , led to the mountain station of a new funicular that overcame a height difference of 130 m down into the Speisbachtal over a length of 350 m. There was again a short narrow-gauge track on a route parallel to the course of the stream to the newly constructed ore wash. Bach and Feldbahn then tunneled under the railway line on the right bank of the Rhine and led to an area on the bank of the Rhine, which was used to load the ores onto ships. The course of the field railways and the funicular are still clearly visible in the area today, as are the foundation walls and the terraced area of the ore wash. From 1916 the production shafts were operated by the Röchling'schen Eisen- und Stahlwerke , today's Saarstahl . However, the deposit was already too heavily exploited, so that operations were discontinued shortly afterwards. The total production was around 30,000 t of brownstone and 20,000 t of brown iron ore .
Shafts and infrastructure
Map with all coordinates of the Shafts original pit ear head: location , location , location , location , location , location , location , location
Eisenloch pit: location
Walpurgis mine shaft: location
Shaft Grube Eisenbraun (location approx.): Location
Funicular: mountain station location, valley station location
Laundry: location , ship loading: location
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- ↑ Willem Douw: Development of an arrangement for the use of gravitational mass movements in quartzite mining in the Rhenish Slate Mountains (dissertation Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) . ConchBooks, Mainz 2007, p. 61 ( PDF [accessed March 20, 2016]).
- ↑ Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme (Hrsg.): Overview plan Rüdesheim, with field boundaries . 1918 ( digitized version [accessed on March 21, 2016] Deutsches Bergbau Museum).
- ↑ Königlich Preußische Landesaufnahme (Ed.): Presberg overview, sheet 3405, with field boundaries . 1907 ( digitized version [accessed on March 21, 2016] Deutsches Bergbau Museum).
- ↑ Willem Douw: Development of an arrangement for the use of gravitational mass movements in quartzite mining in the Rhenish Slate Mountains (dissertation Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) . ConchBooks, Mainz 2007, p. 62 ( PDF [accessed March 20, 2016]).