Napoleon's pit
| Napoleon's pit | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1856 | ||
| End of operation | unknown | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | lead | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '49 " N , 7 ° 12' 17.9" E | ||
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| Location | Untereschbach | ||
| local community | Overath | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Bensberg ore district | ||
The Napoleon mine was a non-ferrous metal ore mine in the Bensberg ore district in Overath in the Untereschbach district . The Napoleon mine field extended in the vicinity of Großbuchholz .
history
On August 10, 1847, Johann Wilhelm Hohn from Obereschbach made a first mutation under the name Primus . The requests for encouragement were repeated several times. After a field inspection on September 22, 1855, the award of lead ore to the merchant C. Bennert of Cologne under the new name Napoleon took place on February 22, 1856 . The pit, originally awarded as a length field , was converted into a square field with an award document from May 28, 1866 .
Operation and facilities
No documents are available about the operating activities. Only the existing relics give an idea of the earlier mining . In the siefen southeast of the Großbuchholz farm, the heap of the investigation tunnel is still completely preserved. In addition to a broken tunnel mouth hole , a somewhat larger dump can be seen in the area.
literature
- Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Herbert Ommer : The legacy of ore. Volume 2, The pits on the Gangerz deposits in the Bensberg ore district . Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-014668-7 .
- Herbert Stahl (editor): Das Erbe des Erzes, Volume 5, New news and stories about the Bensberg ore district , Bergisch Gladbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044826-3 , p. 22
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Herbert Ommer, mining relics in the Königsforst , in: Bergbau im Bergisches Land, examples of mining traces between Sülz and Wahnbach , series of the history association Rösrath eV, Volume 32, Rösrath 2002, p. 182ff., ISBN 3-922413-52- 8th