Pit Joshua
| Pit Joshua | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1868 | ||
| End of operation | unknown | ||
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| Degradation of | iron | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 '13.8 " N , 7 ° 11' 38.3" E | ||
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| Location | Men's rounds | ||
| local community | Bergisch Gladbach | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Bensberg ore district | ||
The Josua mine is a former iron mine in the Bensberg ore district in Bergisch Gladbach . The site belongs to the Herrenstrunden district . The mine field was awarded to iron on June 18, 1868 and was owned by Jews. Joshua is an Old Testament male given name. Moses took his servant Joshua to the mountain of God to receive the tablets of the law . The authorization file of the Josua mine was deleted by a resolution of the Bonn Mining Authority on September 18, 1937. This means that it was destroyed in accordance with the zeitgeist of the Nazi regime in order to permanently eliminate the existence of the mine and the memory of this mine name. The following note can be found in the mining land register : "Closed on November 10, 1937 due to the abolition of mine ownership." Between Asselborn and Trotzenburg there is a larger dent in the agricultural area on the edge of a wood. This is the recultivated pinge from the earlier opencast mine. Nothing is known about the operating activities.
literature
- Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Hans-Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer : The legacy of ore. Volume 3: The pits in the Paffrath Kalkmulde. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-932326-49-0 , p. 84 ( series of publications by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV 49).