Ludwigseck mine
| Ludwigseck | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / total | 2,698 t of iron ore | ||
| Rare minerals | Sphalerite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 64 | ||
| Start of operation | January 24, 1839 | ||
| End of operation | March 30, 1922 | ||
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| Degradation of | Lead ore , zinc ore , copper ore , iron spar | ||
| Greatest depth | 260 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 47 '30.1 " N , 8 ° 2' 6.6" E | ||
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| Location | Salchendorf | ||
| local community | Neunkirchen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Burbach mountain area | ||
The pit Ludwigseck was an ore mine in Neunkirchen district Salchendorf in Siegen-Wittgenstein in North Rhine-Westphalia . The pit was located on the slope of the Rassberg ridge in the left Wildebach valley at a height of approx. 345 m and was one of the five Salchendorfer mines with a shaft operation.
Aisle means
The mine was built on a section of an ore vein over 600 m long, on which the neighboring pits Junge Löwe and Gleiskaute were still building. There was also a parallel corridor up to 120 m long.
In the upper depths, the corridor was around 40–50 m long and 0.3 m thick. It was mainly filled with lead ore , interwoven with quartz, spate iron and zinc ores , copper pyrites or nickel-antimony shine were also rare .
history
The mine was formerly also called "Alluvial Pole" and was lent and created on January 24, 1839 for the extraction of iron stone , lead , silver and copper ore . From 1853 the award was extended to include zinc blende . Funding took place through a "deep tunnel" and from the 1840s through an underground construction with bicycle art and horse pecking. Up to 1864, 650 t of galena, 152.4 t of zinc blende, 17.8 t of copper ore and 21.5 t of spate iron stone were mined there. Only later was it switched to shaft operation. The shaft had a size of 2.4 × 3.4 m and a depth of 260 m. It was not backfilled after the pit was closed.
From 1873 onwards, the ores from the mine were transported to Neunkirchen on the "little train", a narrow-gauge railway from the Bautenberg mine in Wilden. In 1907 or 1908, the mine bought the compressor from the now closed Arbacher Einigkeit mine . Around 1910, the mine processing plant in the valley near the Wildebach burned down completely, which drove the mine, which had already been damaged, to ruin. The plant was rebuilt, but in 1913 the mine stopped mining and declared bankruptcy. This year, 1080 t of iron ore, 970 t of zinc ore and 24 t of lead ore were mined. On March 30, 1922, the mine was finally closed. In the end, 64 staff members worked in it. A total of 2,698 t of iron ore was mined.
In the years 1951/52 the dumps of the Ludwigseck pit and those of the neighboring Gleiskaute and Junge Löwe pits were partly removed and processed in the flotation plant of the Altenseelbacher Grube Große Burg .
The office and colliery building of the pit is still standing by the “little train” and is used as a residential building. As with many pits, the location of the headframe opposite the building (to the west) was marked with a shaft stone. The hoisting machine house , from which the hoisting cage was controlled, stood next to the wooden headframe . A little further to the southeast there was a boiler house and a small shed. The processing plant in the valley is now used as an industrial hall.
The little train today
Shaft stone of the pit
Workforce of the pit 1907
See also
literature
- Alfred Henrichs: From Salchendorf's past , Braun printing house, Neunkirchen 1966
- 700 years of Neunkirchen , Otto Braun Verlag, Neunkirchen 1988
Individual evidence
- ^ T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
- ^ Gerhard Weyl: The Pfannenberger Einigkeit iron ore mine 1810-1962 in Salchendorf / Neunkirchen ; Vorländer publishing house, Siegen 2005
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )