Hahnenfurth mine
| Hahnenfurth mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Rheinkalk GmbH Dornap plant | ||
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| Degradation of | limestone | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 '0.2 " N , 7 ° 3' 14.1" E | ||
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| Location | Dornap / Hahnenfurth | ||
| local community | Wuppertal | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Wuppertal | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The pit Hahnenfurth is a limestone - quarry in the Upper Devonian Massenkalk the west of Wuppertal in the municipality Vohwinkel on the border with Wülfrath .
description
The quarry near Hahnenfurth to the west and east of Dornap is named after its location in Hahnenfurth. The Düsseldorfer Straße, which is classified as Bundesstraße 7 , runs north of the pit, south of the Hahnenfurth dump . The Hahnenfurth mine and the Hanielsfeld mine in the west are separated from the railway line of the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Essen-Überruhr railway line , which is served by the S 9 S-Bahn line . The two pits are connected by a tunnel below the railway line.
The pit measures around 1000 meters in the west-east extension and around 900 meters in the north-south extension (this refers to the area that is closed to the public). The mine is operated by Rheinkalk GmbH Werk Dornap (with company headquarters in Wülfrath). The water level is around 110 meters below ground level in the area (based on Hahnenfurth, which is around 145 meters above zero).
Southern expansion
In order to secure lime mining at the site for the next few decades, it was decided to expand the open pit to the south. As a first measure, the course of the federal road 7 was relocated in 1996 from the former southern edge of the pit to the northern edge in front of the spoil dump. This made this area available for dismantling. The burning operation of the lime works Dornap was in the lime works Flandersbach laid, so that the south of the former route of the national road plant located decommissioned and was scheduled for demolition. This area will then also be used for mining. By autumn 2012, several of the works' buildings and their siding on the Düsseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund Süd railway line had already been demolished.
3D model of the pits near Dornap. From left to right: pit Hahnenfurth, pit Haniel field , pit Voßbeck and pit Schickenberg .
Web links
- Rheinkalk presents: The Dornap plant PDF file
- Geological-hydrogeological mapping in the area of the Herzkämper Mulde on sheet 4708, Wuppertal-Elberfeld
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Reising: News from the Eulenkopfweg. The history of stones, plants, animals and people on the north-western edge of the city of Wuppertal (= observe and get to know nature, Bergisches Land. Vol. 8). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1994, ISBN 3-87093-068-3 .
- ↑ measured in Google Earth
- ↑ Rheinkalk informs: Southern expansion II of the Hahnenfurth quarry PDF file