New Hope Pit (Siegerland)
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / total | 68,222 t of lead, zinc and iron ore | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to 310 (1900: 255 + 55 workers on the national crown ) | ||
| Start of operation | 1882 | ||
| End of operation | March 5, 1913 | ||
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| Degradation of | Spate iron stone , zinc , lead , silver ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 440 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '32 " N , 8 ° 7' 48" E | ||
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| Location | Wilgersdorf | ||
| local community | Wilnsdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Bergrevier Siegen II | ||
New hope was an ore mine between Wilnsdorf and Wilgersdorf in the district of Wilgersdorf in the southern Siegerland . In addition to Spateisenstein , zinc , lead and silver ores were mined .
history
On April 15, 1882 the fundus inspection took place, which was recognized by the Wilgersdorf mothers Johannes Heinrich Grisse and Johannes Pistor for lead, copper and zinc ores. On May 11, 1882, the merchant Carl Plate from Eiserfeld in Mutung Victoria had received the rights to mine the same ores. Since Mr. Plate stated that Muter Grisse and Pistor were also involved in the mutation Victoria, both conjectures were counted as a unit and they agreed on the name New Hope . Since a Mr. Heusler appealed (unsuccessfully) to the award, the award certificate was not issued until January 22, 1883. Since a minable ore vein was found immediately, mining could begin quickly. A hoisting machine was installed and a sheathing and colliery house was built. The first shaft of the pit had a depth of 178 m and was sunk from 1882. In 1885 it reached a depth of 50 m. In August 1981 he was covered. In 1900 the second shaft of the mine, 250 m from the first shaft, was built. It had a size of 2 × 3 m, a depth of 440 m and was backfilled after the mine was closed. It was equipped with a steam boiler system, a conveyor and a water retention machine . In 1885, 830 t of galena and 252 t of zinc blende, but no iron ore, were mined. A passage center of the mine was 0.1–1 m thick and contained lead, zinc and pale ores.
The pit was considerably enlarged by the purchase and further speculations and awards. Presumably, the rapid development had miscalculated, because in 1897 a new trade union and board were founded and instead of well-known local names, the following people appeared on the board: August Becker (legal advisor from Düsseldorf), Leo Hanau (banker from Düsseldorf), Henri Smits (mining engineer from Düsseldorf), Wilhelm Liebrich (director from Oberhausen) and Carl Hahn (banker from Bonn). The former head climber Christian Zöller was the manager of the mine; E. Forneberg became its representative.
In the years 1898 and 1899, among other things, the processing was expanded again, a civil servants' residence was built (today a nursing home) and a dynamo machine was installed. This electrical system generated light for the entire daytime system, heaps, the room space and the filling locations of all floors in the pit and should also supply the electrical drilling machines. The ores were already being extracted from the 300 m level at this point, but considerable repair work had already to be carried out. Among other things, in Shaft I, defective areas from the 100 m level had to be completely renewed or repaired for several days. In the lift shaft (shaft II), the journeys (ladders) were completely renewed and the hoisting machine received a new rope. Due to the large amount of maintenance and repair work and the resulting stagnant funding, the processing plant did not run continuously. The mined ores were initially stored in stockpiles and, if there were enough quantities, sent to processing, which happened three times in 1890.
On February 5, 1900, the consolidation of the New Hope and Landeskrone pits in the Hotel Monopol in Düsseldorf was decided and carried out on December 28, 1900. The consolidation resulted in a large mine field, which stretched from the uppermost Hundsberg over the Heckenbach valley to below the Landeskroner Weiher. The union of the consolidated mine was divided into 1,000 Kuxe, of which 500 each belonged to the New Hope and Landeskrone union . However, both pits still drew up separate operating plans, and the operating reports also appeared separately. While Gustav Brockhaus was responsible for the Landeskrone mine, Christian Zöller was the manager of the Neue Hope mine.
Presumably, necessary maintenance and repair tasks were neglected in the previous years, because the responsible district official from the mining authority discovered during a visit that the production shaft (shaft II) was in a very poor condition and immediately prohibited the entire production. As a result, miners could not drive in or out and the ore extracted from the deeper levels could no longer be processed, because shaft I ended at the 160 m level and from here you can get to shaft II, around the deeper ones To reach soles. As a result, only a small amount of ore could now be extracted from the upper levels, and the mine had to file for bankruptcy in 1901. At that time, 174 workers were working on the mine and 478 t of lead ore and 800 t of zinc blende were extracted.
At the auction on May 31, 1902, Fritz Küper from Cologne, together with Karl Bender from Freusburger Mühle , and August Becker jun. from Rohrbach near St. Ingbert the mine at a price of 161,000 marks. The creditors approved this sale in a meeting on July 11, 1902. Shaft II was sumped, the water standing up to the 160 m level was pumped out in order to resume work on the 120 m level, the 160 m level and later the 220 m level. The ore resources of the Bruno , Heckenbach and New Jerusalem mines were tackled on these levels . With 85 workers, 594 t of lead ore and 70 t of zinc blende were again extracted. Between 1902 and 1910, between 140 and 190 workers were employed, and ore mining showed a positive trend again after initial difficulties.
No positive developments could be brought forward at the Landeskrone mine, and so the new trade union was not prepared to continue to support this 'block on the leg'. On January 18, 1909, it was therefore decided to undertake a real field division. The New Hope - Landeskrone mine has now become the two New Hope mine - Heckenbach and Alte Landeskrone .
With greater depth, the ore resources decreased on the Neue Hope , so that the vein was only thin and had almost completely disappeared on the 440 m level. In 1910, 179 employees still mined 505 t of lead ore and 1,1612 t of zinc blende, as well as 574 t of spate iron stone. This funding could more or less be maintained in the following two years.
On February 14, 1913, due to exhaustion of the ore resources, the decision was made to shut down operations and dismantle and sell the plant. In the operating report from 1913 it is described that the best ore residues were still mined on the 440 m level and that pumps, pipes and rails were dismantled and brought to the surface. So that the workforce could gradually be dismissed, operations were only ever stopped on one level and ore and iron stone were mined on the higher levels until the water reached them. At the beginning of May the water had risen to the 220 m level, and the treatment has now also been shut down. Then pumps and pipes were removed from both shafts and both shafts below the suspended benches were closed by strong T-beams and reinforced concrete ceilings. The die in the lead ore agent developed a few years ago was sunk 20 m further down to a depth of 56 m and was excavated here for about 20 m in the duct crevice without encountering ore. A gap was then hewn up to the 36 m die bottom in the passage crevice, and it turned out that the beautiful ores of the 36 m die bottom lowered another 7 m. This cornerstone of lead ore was dismantled and all mine work was then stopped. By the end of 1913, the daytime facilities were demolished except for the processing building, the electrical center, the two residential buildings and the iron headframe. The production in the last year of operation amounted to 3,639 wagons (= 2,183.4 t) ore debris, from which 102 t lead ore and 167 t zinc blende were extracted, which corresponds to an output of 12.35%. 3,125 tonnes of Spateisenstein were mined and 2,404 tonnes of rust was produced from it and shipped. The workforce averaged 45 people for the year and 2 at the end of the year. A total of 68,222 t of iron ore was mined. The mine had up to 300 employees.
In December 2004 day breaks occurred on the former mine site . The site has a large dump and has been a nature reserve for a long time.
Consolidation pits
In addition to the largest consolidation pit, the Landeskrone in Wilden , which existed until 1901, there were other consolidations:
- Bismarck
- Brassert
- Count Häseler
- Chance luck
- Adelgunde
- New Jerusalem ; Awarded in 1806, a deep tunnel was dug in the same year, which reached the middle of the tunnel after 337 m at a depth of 42 m and was driven again around 1850 . Ore mining was stopped around 1855. In 1882 New Jerusalem consolidated with the New Hope Pit . In 1912 the mine was closed. The passage center was 42 m long and 0.3–0.6 m thick.
- Victoria ; the pit was also created in 1882. The old shaft was built in 1883 and had a depth of 170 m. Up to 1885 830 t of lead ore and 252 t of zinc ore were mined, ore veins were partridge , black grouse , Anton , Silberquelle and Concordia . In addition to brown iron ore , siderite , copper pyrites , zinc and lead ore , the 0.1–1 m thick gangue also contained barite and nickel ore.
- Jerusalem
Ore grade
The lead ores in the pits had a lead content between 60 and 70%. 30 to 40 grams of silver were extracted from 100 kg of lead ore.
advancement
The total production of the mine over the years amounts to 14,561 t lead ore, 33,600 t zinc blende and 12,793 t spate iron stone. 632 t of other ores were mined. If one adds the production of the Landeskrone mine from 1900 and 1901 during the consolidation and if an annual average value is assumed for the years whose production figures are unknown, the total output, which can be considered realistic, should be around 68,000 t.
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Workforce
The number of employees rose steadily to 255 until 1900 (310 with the Landeskrone), then fell slightly and fluctuated between 160 and 190 until the end of the company in 1913.
| year | Men | Teenagers | Women | total |
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| 1886 | 81 | 35 | 7th | 123 |
| 1887 | 97 | 10 | 6th | 113 |
| 1888 | 98 | 20th | 4th | 122 |
| 1889 | 100 | 20th | 4th | 124 |
| 1890 | 86 | 35 | 9 | 130 |
| 1891 | 118 | 30th | 5 | 153 |
| 1892 | 119 | 23 | 7th | 149 |
| 1893 | 114 | 19th | 8th | 141 |
| 1894 | 107 | 12 | 6th | 125 |
| 1895 | 111 | 10 | 3 | 124 |
| 1896 | 127 | 24 | 5 | 156 |
| 1897 | 134 | 28 | 5 | 167 |
| 1898 | 162 | 29 | 2 | 193 |
| 1899 | 206 | 32 | 0 | 238 |
| 1900 | 225 | 24 | 6th | 255 |
| 1901 | 148 | 21st | 5 | 174 |
| 1902 | 72 | 10 | 3 | 85 |
| 1903 | 120 | 11 | 3 | 134 |
| 1904 | 127 | 11 | 4th | 152 |
| 1905 | 132 | 12 | 5 | 149 |
| 1906 | 148 | 14th | 3 | 165 |
| 1907 | 168 | 17th | 6th | 191 |
| 1908 | 168 | 17th | 5 | 190 |
| 1909 | 164 | 19th | 7th | 190 |
| 1910 | 146 | 23 | 10 | 179 |
| 1911 | 134 | 24 | 7th | 165 |
| 1912 | 141 | 14th | 6th | 161 |
| 1913 | 45 (2) |
See also
literature
- Adolf Schmelzer: The New Hope mine and other Wilgersdorfer mines ; Self-published
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- Newspaper article on the daybreak 2004 ( Memento from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )