Mary's Pit
Mary's Pit | |||
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General information about the mine | |||
Funding / year | Max. = t | ||
Information about the mining company | |||
Operating company | Eschweiler Mining Association | ||
Employees | 265 | ||
Start of operation | 1848 | ||
End of operation | 1962 | ||
Funded raw materials | |||
Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
Geographical location | |||
Coordinates | 50 ° 52 '3.5 " N , 6 ° 11' 9.3" E | ||
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Location | Mariadorf | ||
local community | Hoengen | ||
country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
Country | Germany | ||
District | Aachen district |
Grube Maria was a coal mine founded in 1848 by the mountain master Eduard Honigmann , the justice of the peace Friedrich Boelling and the textile manufacturer Leopold Schoeller in the area of Hoengen (today the city of Alsdorf in the then district of Aachen ). It was named after the wife of the first company director, Eduard Honigmann. The mine was renamed Aachen-Höngener Bergwerk-Aktiengesellschaft in 1863 , leased from 1878 by the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier and bought from 1890 and operated by the Eschweiler Bergwerkverein (EBV) from 1907 through a merger .
In 1853 the mine had a workforce of 265. The mine administration had twenty workers' apartments built after a few businessmen had already built their houses near the mine. After the name of the pit, the associated first settlement of the miners was called Mariagrube . It was located in an extensive forest, the Hoengener Erbwald, which is part of the Propsteier Forest . Except for a small remainder between Eschweilerstraße and Am Südpark, this forest has been cut down. As can be seen from entries in the land registry, the name of the village was more and more suppressed from 1876 onwards and finally renamed Mariadorf entirely .
The two railway lines Herzogenrath – Alsdorf – Stolberg and Aachen Nord – Jülich cross north of the village . In order to avoid confusion with the first station in Mariadorf, the second station set up in the intersection area of the routes was named after the Maria Bahnhof Mariagrube . The buildings near this train station and the Maria Hauptschacht mine always belonged to Mariadorf, but were separated from the village by a railway line. This area was therefore perceived as a separate village of Mariagrube by US soldiers during World War II .
In 1962 the promotion to Maria was stopped. The main machine workshop of the EBV was located on the site of the former Maria II mine until 1992.