Katzenberg mine
| Katzenberg mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | IB Rathscheck Söhne KG, Moselle slate mines | ||
| Start of operation | 1793 | ||
| End of operation | 2019 | ||
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| Degradation of | slate | ||
| Greatest depth | 400 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '14.5 " N , 7 ° 14' 57.9" E | ||
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| local community | Mayen | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Vulkaneifel | ||
The Katzenberg mine is a slate mine southeast of the Katzenberg district of the city of Mayen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Mayen-Koblenz in the Eifel .
Location and geography
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The factories and the slate quarry are in the immediate vicinity of the Roman observatory in Mayen on the Moselschiefer road between the Vordereifel and the Vulkaneifel . The Katzenberg with slate mining and processing is also part of the National GeoPark Laacher See and, within this geopark, the volcanic park founded in 1996 (Mayen-Koblenz district).
history
Slate has been mined on the Katzenberg since Roman times until 2019. In the 16th century the trade name and designation of origin Moselschiefer was coined, named after the original transport route over the Moselle to the Lower Rhine. In 1793, with the founding of the company by Johann Baptist Rathscheck, the promotion of the Katzenberg was continued. The family concern OHG Wilh. Werhahn , Neuss , is involved in the Rathscheck-Grube Katzenberg slate company in Mayen as the owner of Rathscheck Schiefer und Dach-Systeme KG .
The Katzenberg composite mine was not formed until the 1970s from the Katzenberg mine and the Glückauf mine a good kilometer away. The latter is still used today for ventilation . The shaft in Katzenberg was modernized in 1987 and is a conveyor, material and people shaft. In 1997, after the expansion of foreign activities since the 1970s, the division into the production company IB Rathscheck Söhne KG, Moselschieferbergwerke, and Rathscheck Schiefer und Dach-Systeme KG, Mayen-Katzenberg, in which all national and international market activities are bundled.
In 2003, the ninth was in the mine Katzenberg sole (303 m depth) open-minded. In 2016 the 11th level was exposed (400 m depth).
On the 7th level there is a mine train with locomotives made by Schöma and Bartz with a gauge of 550 mm, which was still in operation in 2015. A battery mine locomotive from Belloli from Italy was erected as a memorial at the nearby fish pond of the Mayen / Hausen Anglers' Association. One of the Bartz locomotives is also out of order and has become a monument on the factory premises.
The Werhahn Group has announced the end of slate mining and the closure of the mine for 2019. On March 29, 2019 at 2:45 p.m., the last lorry with Moselle slate drove out of the Katzenberg - after that the headframe for the extraction of the unique raw material from the Eastern Eifel was closed forever.
processing
In addition to modern machines for mining and conveying, after the preparatory sawing and splitting of the damp slate, manual work is still required for the final trimming. In the chord, the prepared blocks are trimmed to their final shape.
Current usage
With the two Moselle slate mines Katzenberg (Mayen) and Margareta (Polch) of the company IB Rathscheck Söhne KG, Moselschieferbergwerke , the largest slate production in Central Europe was located in this region with - by its own admission - a market share of 80%. Today only the products from these two mines carry the name Moselle slate . This designation was laid down in writing about 100 years ago, confirmed several times and is now used to indicate properties and quality, in this case to describe a premium product. Production is scheduled to cease at the end of 2019.
The Margareta mine near Polch-Nettesürsch, four kilometers away, is opened up with a 485 m long conveyor ramp in the shape of a spiral, which enables it to be removed from underground by trucks.
Others
Slate quarries in Germany exist or were in Fell, Kaub, Altlay-Bundenbach, Schwalefeld, Fredeburg, Nordenau , Lehesten , Unterloquitz and Geroldsgrün. Many are now accessible as visitor mines. In 1986 the Rathscheck company acquired another important slate production facility in opencast and underground mining in Spain.
Museums
The German slate mine on site on this topic - an adventure mine and museum under the Genoveva Castle in Mayen - was, however, built in a former air raid shelter.
Web links
- Slate. In: Mineralienatlas Lexikon. Stefan Schorn u. a.
- Katzenberg mine. In: Mineralienatlas Lexikon. Stefan Schorn u. a.
- Moselle schist road
- Rathscheck slate
- Schieferlexikon Information on the origin, structure and occurrence of slate; Explanations of standards
- Slate Association in Germany eV
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Schiefer eV
- Association for the Preservation of Slate Mining History V.
- History of the building material slate at Monumente Online
literature
- Frank Glaubitz, Joachim Lutz: IB Rathscheck Sons KG - Moselle slate mines, Mayen / Katzenberg. In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Drehscheibe eV (Hrsg.): Drehscheibe. Issue 279 (3/2017), Eningen uA, April, p. 128.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rathscheck slate and roof systems: historical highlights.
- ↑ werhahn.de ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Werhahn Group Neuss: Werhahn defends Bergwerk-Aus. In: Rheinische Post . December 3, 2018, accessed February 24, 2019.
- ^ Rathscheck slate: production process.
- ↑ ddh.de
- ^ Moselschiefer-Strasse.de: Moselschiefer-Bergwerk Margareta.
