Itzenplitz mine
| Itzenplitz mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1856 | ||
| End of operation | 1960 | ||
| Successor use | Commercial, residential buildings | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 49 ° 21 '10 " N , 7 ° 5' 34.9" E | ||
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| local community | Schiffweiler | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Neunkirchen | ||
| country | State of Saarland | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Saar | ||
The Itzenplitz mine is a former hard coal mine in Schiffweiler in the Saarland district of Neunkirchen .
history
As part of the extensions of the pit speeches of transport routes in the valley at Rußhütter Heiligenwald in 1856 with a new Rußhütterstollen to shorten underground galleries struck. In 1860, the sinking of the first underground construction shaft, Itzenplitz I, began. In the same year, the 1.9 km long railway line from Reden to the Itzenplitz mine was built.
In 1872 Itzenplitzschacht II was sunk to the bottom of the speech. In the following years a colliery , a carpenter's shop and a blacksmith's workshop were built. In 1864 the mine was named after the Prussian Minister of Commerce, Count Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz . In 1878/79 a pond with a pump house was built, which today forms the core of the Itzenplitz recreation area . The water was used to operate the steam engines for extraction .
Shaft III was sunk in 1886, the headframe of which is the oldest still preserved on the Saar. In 1894/95 a coal washing plant was built. In 1910 the mine got its own wash house . In 1920 all properties of the Prussian Mining Treasury were transferred to France. In 1935 they came into the possession of the German Reich. In 1942/43 the Rätterhalle and the coal washing plant were demolished. In 1950, shaft II received a new headframe. More than 1200 miners drove to Itzenplitz every day .
After the Second World War , however, the facility also began to decline. In 1958 the mine became a subsidiary of the Reden mine. 1960 Itzenplitz was then shut down as a production site, Seilfahrt and material handling were further operated until the 1990s.
Todays use
Large parts of the daytime facilities were demolished. Some of the buildings that have been preserved contain apartments, while other properties are used commercially. The mine is to become an important part of the landscapes of the industrial culture north.
The preserved headframes of shafts II and III with the hoisting machine house and shaft hall, the double washing piers and the mine station from 1860 are under monument protection.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Itzenplitz mine (PDF; 7.2 MB), Wemmetsweiler local history museum
- ↑ The history of the Itzenplitz mine ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Municipality of Schiffweiler
- ^ Website of the Landscapes of Industrial Culture North
- ↑ Monuments of hard coal mining (PDF; 1.4 MB), Saarland State Monuments Office
