Pit Marie
| Marie | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Rare minerals | Legrandite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 120 | ||
| Start of operation | November 29, 1867 | ||
| End of operation | December 23, 1918 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Lead ore , zinc ore , copper ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 130 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 47 '40 " N , 8 ° 8' 19.5" E | ||
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| Location | south of the cold oak | ||
| local community | Wilnsdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Bergrevier Siegen II | ||
The Marie mine was an ore mine near Wilnsdorf in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was located below the cold ponds in a forest area at an altitude of about 530 m. The mine belonged to the mining district Siegen II and consisted of the pits Marie , Löwenstern , Löwensterner continuation , Landessegen , Prince Albrecht , Marie I , Barbara and Jakobsegen .
Aisle means
Were promoted lead , zinc , copper and Fahlerze . The corridor of the pit was up to 50 m long and 0.05–1 m thick. In the neighboring frame quarry, frame stones for blast furnaces were broken.
Surface systems
Above the forest path was the boiler house, to the southwest of it the shaft with the headframe and to the north-west of it the hoisting machine house. To the north of the building was the mine administration building. Two parallel mine railway tracks led across the dump to the shaft and into the tunnel that lay in the middle between the buildings mentioned. A second, short track led from the shaft southwest to a small dump and a third track to the east-facing processing plant. This was between the mine dump and the nearby stream. The clarification ponds connected to the processing.
history
In October 1867, the owner of the neighboring rack quarries encountered lead, copper and zinc ore veins in his tunnels. After miner Hundt from the Siegen Mining Authority inspected the mine on November 11th, a certificate of approval and the right to mine ore followed on November 29th, 1867. A tunnel was dug in the same year. The union, which was founded in 1867, consisted of four trades, each with 25 Kuxen; The mining, which only took place from time to time, was carried out in a primitive manner, with the tunnel being driven for a total of 135 m in length until 1871. He brought a depth of 33 m underground. The payment around 1870 consisted of 17 groschen per shift in the mine and 6–12 groschen per shift in processing. Work was carried out in two shifts, eight hours each in the pit and twelve hours in the preparation. From 1874, no more ore was mined. Between 1867 and 1874 a total of 362 t of galena and 149 t of zinc blende were extracted.
In the 1890s, the ores from the mine were processed in the nearby Landeskrone mine . In 1891 the payment was 2.55 marks per 12-hour shift. In 1890, with 6 members of the workforce , 27.9 t of galena and 118.9 t of zinc blende were extracted, in 1891 the extraction was reduced to 9.7 t of galena and 10.4 t of zinc blende. After only small amounts of ore were mined in the remaining 1890s, Bergrat Gerlach closed the mine on September 29, 1900. In 1901/1902 the foreclosure auction followed. The new owner is Jacob Schöler from Wilden .
In 1909, the Berlin Baron Willy von Dulong bought the mine and expanded it. In the same year, operations were resumed and 15 t of zinc blende were extracted. The die set up in the same year reached a depth of 20 m. In 1912 a machine shaft was built and brought to a depth of 130 m . Bottoms were cut at 40, 50, 100 and 125 m. At 50 and 100 m there was a connection to the neighboring Löwenstern mine, about 600 m away . A connection to the Tiefen Löwensterner tunnel was created there by means of overcutting . The Löwenstern mine had existed for a long time and in 1867 had two employees.
The new ore processing and the mine employed 120 people. In the summer of 1913 the daytime facilities burned down. The reconstruction of the mine came to a standstill due to the First World War ; an investigation by the war raw materials department was not carried out until the spring of 1916. The operational report prepared in July was favorable to the mine. But the pit went “under water” as early as autumn, as the money for pumping out the water was to be saved. The production in 1913/14 (with Löwenstern ) amounted to 1,451 t of galena and 852 t of zinc ore.
Due to a shortage of ore, an order was issued to restart operations in 1917, and operations were managed by Braubach AG. In 1918 a new mine house was built. On December 23 of the same year ore mining was stopped due to a lack of coal . In the years 1917 and 1918 4,490 t of "bulk" (up to 450 t of unprocessed ore per month) were extracted. Between 1909 and 1918, a total of 1,192 t of zinc blende and 6,545 t of debris were extracted. As the processing plant burned down in 1913, the ores were no longer processed. Most recently, 77 miners worked in the mine.
In the spring of 2008, the tunnel entrance, which was sealed off with a concrete block by the mining authorities in the 1980s and buried over 15 m, was exposed. It was restored with an artificial section of tunnel, a tunnel portal and a new tunnel door and the path to the entrance was littered with gravel.
In front of the tunnel is an old mine hunt loaded with ore remains and an information board with the history of the mine as well as a cross-section and a route map. Opposite the forest path there is a wooden seating group for resting. The pit is a station on the Wilnsdorf mine hiking trail , which has existed since 2008 and leads around the cold ponds through Wilnsdorf and Wilgersdorf .
See also
literature
- Adolf Schmelzer: The lead and zinc ore mine Marie from 1867 - 1918 , self-published, 107 pages, Wilnsdorf 2008.
- JG Jung, A. Bingener: The lead and zinc ore mine Marie - A contribution to the mining history in the Wilnsdorf area , Siegerland 2002.
Web links
- Information on the restoration of the mouth hole
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
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- see web links
- Article Grube Marie wakes up from deep sleep and operating reports from the Internet in the Siegener Zeitung of February 23, 2008, local section page 8 (full-page)
- Info board Grube Marie 1867 - 1918 (history of the mine) - on the Wilnsdorf mine hiking trail