Pit James

The James pit was a coal mine of the so-called " Münsterkohlberg " in the Inderevier of the Aachen district . It was named after James Cockerill and was located south of the Inde and west of the Vichtbach in Münsterbusch and Mühle . At the time of its creation it was on the border of the mayor's offices of Stolberg and Büsbach . Like the " Atsch ", " Propstei " and " Birkengang " mines near Eschweiler , it geologically mined the Upper Stolberg strata.

Their maximum production rate was 50,000 to 60,000 tons per year in the mid- 19th century . The shafts "Glück-auf", "James", "Amalia", "Carl", "Caroline" and "Heinrich" belonged to it, the latter four of which were equipped with steam engines in the middle of the 19th century .

The mine, which had already been developed around 1825, was taken over by James Cockerill and the entrepreneur brothers Siegwarth in 1830, brought to its maximum depth of around 150 m in the following years , which enabled large-scale mining , and then managed by Cockerill alone from 1834. From 1840 until its abandonment on July 10, 1891 as the last coal mine in what is now Stolberg's urban area, the mine was owned by the “ Metallurgische Gesellschaft zu Stolberg ” (later “Stolberger Gesellschaft”). In 1877 a headframe with a passenger cable car was erected at the “Heinrich” shaft . Your funding served to cover the energy needs of the nearby lead and silver smelter and the St. Heinrichs hut in Münsterbusch, with which it formed one of the first industrial landscapes in Germany.

literature

• Anton Kohlhaas: History of hard coal mining in today's urban area of ​​Stolberg (Rhld.). Contributions to Stolberg history and local history. Vol. 12, Stolberg 1965.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 31.7 "  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 2.2"  E