Mieke pit
| Mieke pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| other names | Old Mieke, New Mieke | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 120 | ||
| Start of operation | 1923 | ||
| End of operation | 1964 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Mightiness | 1.40 m | ||
| Mightiness | 0.70 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 52 ° 19 '8 " N , 7 ° 38' 19" E | ||
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| Location | Uffels | ||
| local community | Ibbenbueren | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Steinfurt | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ibbenbüren coal field | ||
Pit Mieke was a mine of Ibbenbürener starch manufacturers Crespel & Deiters . The company was from 1923 to 1946 with the "Alte Mieke" mine and from 1948 to 1964 with the "Neue Mieke" mine.
location
The Alte Mieke mine was located above the Ibbenbüren district of Uffeln in the Tecklenburger Land . On the Up de Hee street , roughly where the factory gate of the Westermann quarry rises today, the Alte Mieke shaft , which took several tons, was built. A narrow-gauge railway connected the pit with the Mittelland Canal, which is only a few hundred meters away, and the train station in Hörstel . The Neue Mieke pit with the Hugo shaft was located a few meters north of the Alte Mieke, roughly where the screening plant is today in the quarry .
history
Old Mieke
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, there was an enormous coal shortage in Germany after the end of the First World War. In the Ibbenbüren coalfield, it was made possible for private individuals or companies to lease pit fields that were of no interest to the Ibbenbüren mine .
The Ibbenbüren industrialist Hugo Deiters was also looking for compensation for the lack of wheat deliveries from his starch factory.
On February 26, 1921, Hugo Deiters leased the "Mieke" mine field from the Prussian mining treasury. This lease agreement was approved on October 3 of the same year by the Prussian mine management in Recklinghausen. The lease gave him the right to exploit the Buchholz seam in the mine field . On January 1, 1923, the "Steinkohlengrube Mieke Hugo Deiters KG" was founded for this purpose. The name Mieke was created after the name of Mrs. Hugo Deiters.
In the lease agreement it was stated that 12% of the daily price of the "Niedersächsische Kohlensyndikats GmbH" is to be paid to the Prussian mining company Ibbenbüren per ton of coal mined. This money was used to financially offset the arrears of the Ibbenbüren mine due to the war. In addition, the Prussian Mining Treasury was able to specify the customers to be supplied.
Right from the start, the “Mieke mine” was one of the most progressive of the more than 100 Ibbenbüren lease pits. It was extracted from a cut-off (ton-length shaft) with a length of 150 m. The transport of coal carried by slides and 875 l trolley . The coal has also been removed from the seam by means of breakers . The ventilation was ensured with a fan that created 130 m³ / min of air into the pit. In winter the natural draft was sufficient so that the fan was not needed.
The coal was loaded on the “Up de Hee” road. After the coal supplies ran out, the operation was shut down in 1946. The company buildings were subsequently converted into emergency shelters for displaced persons, and they are still there today as residential buildings.
New Mieke
The “Neue Mieke” was operated in the Barbarafeld from 1948 north of the old mine. There used to be a small lease mine called Barbara here in the 1920s. Between October 1951 and January 1953 a weather shaft with a diameter of 1.3 m was sunk, which was named Barbara. In 1954, the Dickenberg seam was also leased, which is located under the Buchholz seam.
In 1957/58 the Hugo production shaft was sunk, which reached the level of the Dickenberg seam. The trams were moved underground using two battery locomotives. In the face , the coal was prepared using Korfmann cutting machines and loosened with hammers. The routes that mine were of wood expanded .
From 1954 on, the Mieke mine was the last privately operated shaft in the Ibbenbüren coalfield . In the year 35,000 to 40,000 t of hard coal were mined and transported to the Westfeld colliery for processing . In 1963, the mine produced 37,232 t with a workforce of 120. The company was shut down on June 1, 1964 in exchange for redemption of the shutdown bonus. Responsibility for the remaining mine buildings and facilities was transferred to the Ibbenbüren mine, which wanted to ensure the extraction and drainage of the western field.
After an underground connection to the west field had been created, the shafts were filled and most of the remaining buildings demolished. Today only a marking of the Barbaraschacht and a memorial plaque can be found.
With the closure of the Mieke mine, the chapter of Ibbenbürener Kleinzechen ended . It was also the last of the small and medium-sized mines of the Lower Saxony Business Association to be closed.
see also : List of shafts in the Ibbenbürener coal field
literature
- Hubert Rickelmann , Hans Röhrs : The Ibbenbürener hard coal mining. From the beginning to the present . 2nd, revised edition. Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-506-77224-4 .
- Georg Römhild: The forest and industrial landscape of the Dickenberg mining district near Ibbenbüren . Dissertation. Münster 1974, DNB 751133469 .
- Hans Röhrs : Ibbenbürener Kleinzechen and wild pütts. IVD, Ibbenbüren 2009, ISBN 978-3-941607-01-9 .