Pit Robert
The Robert lignite mine was located northeast of the Elsterwerda district of Biehla .
On November 20, 1868, the mining authority approved the opening of the “Robert” lignite mine (No. 537). This was located northeast of the Biehlaer locality on the Chaussee from Elsterwerda to Bad Liebenwerda . The owners were initially the Elsterwerda Steiger Albert Schulze, the landowner Gottlob Schlenstert and the district forester Robert Krause from Schlieben . The coal was first extracted here in civil engineering. 15 miners extracted 1500 tons of brown coal annually . In 1871 700 tons of pressed stones could be produced by means of a press machine . In April of that year, however, after a severe water ingress, production came to a standstill for several weeks.
When Albert Schulze left the company in May 1873 and sold his shares, the Berlin rentier Franke became mine supervisor, which subsequently caused considerable difficulties with the mining supervision of the mine.
From 1880/81 coal began to be extracted increasingly in open-cast mining. The seam that was mined in the opencast mine at that time was 0.5 to 2.0 meters thick. After the increasing decline in coal production, which in 1885 was only operated by three workers four days a month, coal mining was stopped in 1886.
Footnotes and individual references
- ↑ Dr. Herbert Sucher: "The Robert Pit" in the "Local Calendar of the Bad Liebenwerda District" . 1993, p. 142 to 145 .
- ↑ Dr. Herbert Sucher: "The Robert Pit" in "Elsterwerdaer Anzeiger" . April 1997, p. 2 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ N , 13 ° 31 ′ E