Silberkaule pit

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Silberkaule pit
General information about the mine
Silberkaule mine.1.jpg
General view of the operating facilities of the Silberkaule mine in 1890
Mining technology Civil engineering
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1838
End of operation 1896
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Lead / zinc / copper / pyrites
Geographical location
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '2.5 "  N , 7 ° 24' 16.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '2.5 "  N , 7 ° 24' 16.8"  E
Silberkaule mine (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Silberkaule pit
Location of the Silberkaule mine
Location Loop
local community Engelskirchen
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Bensberg ore district

The Silberkaule mine was a non-ferrous metal ore mine in the Bensberg ore district in Engelskirchen in the Loope district .

history

middle Ages

Mining took place on the Silberkaule mine as early as the 13th century. On the heights of the Heckberg , an approximately 600-meter-long pinge train runs from east to west. Above these pings, investigation work found the areas of 32 houses of different sizes in which mining families must have lived.

Modern times

The first award to the name Silberkaule took place in 1838. Despite good information , this operation had to be closed again in 1844 because there were difficulties with the dewatering. A second construction phase followed from 1868, which ended in 1892 because the ore management became impoverished. As a result, civil engineering had to be abandoned. Trial work was carried out on the western continuation of the corridor until 1896, but it was no longer successful. During the entire operating period, 543 tons of zinc and 30,315 tons of lead ores were extracted.

Ground monument

The mine site is now a registered soil monument of the Engelskirchen community.

Operation and facilities

The Silberkaule mine was opened up by a tunnel , the three shafts Mals, Baur and Carl Paula , which had a total depth of 206 meters, as well as five underground layers with a total of 3700 meters of driveway and an excavation height of 180 meters. The bauwürdige path length was not more than 340 meters and took to the deepest bottom at 40 meters length.

The ore processing plant stood at the bottom of the valley at the Heckbach . Today you can only see the old washing dumps here.

Picture gallery

The site of the former Silberkaule mine still bears the traces of the mining industry that used to work here.

  • Medieval heaps on the hilltop of the Heckberg

  • Dump of a shaft that stood here

  • Washing dumps of the former ore processing plant

  • Washing dumps of the former ore processing plant

  • Washing dumps of the former ore processing plant

Details of the miners

In the church register Drabenderhöhe there is a Johann Ernst August Bilke who lived in the Heck silver mine in 1837. He made Maria Elisabeth Marsch pregnant and confessed to the child in front of the mayor and pastor. The wedding was announced, but he left his bride before the marriage and left her alone with little Wilhelm. After that, the mine appears to be uninhabited until the first residential buildings were built. From 1878 Emil Lingor, a Steiger by trade , lived in the Silberkaule. He married in Drabenderhöhe in 1879. Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Hardt, also Steiger, married in 1882 in the church in Drabenderhöhe and lives with his family in Silberkaule. The miner Wilhelm Leber and his family lived there in 1889. At the same time, the top climber Philipp Jacob Hennemann and his family of nine lived there. The Steiger and Obersteiger were also organized in the elite association “Die Eintracht” in Drabenderhöhe. A Mr. Glassmann, a W. Preiss and a Johann Müller are noted from Silberkaule as founding members.

With the resurgence of the mining industry, a restaurant was built nearby in Heckhaus, which was run by Christian Klein and his family. He belonged to the evangelical parish Drabenderhöhe , although Heckhaus , where there was only one house, already belonged to the parish Much. The inn was probably given up when the mine was closed. In a Prussian address book from 1901, the widow Johannes Haeger as a farmer and Wilhelm Kreuzer as the game warden are noted. The Klein family seems to have moved to another location.

particularities

When the mining operations were stopped, the Obersteigerhaus in Silberkaule was moved to Obermiebach in 1896, and another residential building was moved to the beginning of the Drabenderhöh district and later inhabited by the Voss siblings. All industrial facilities were demolished. There is not much left of it today. In the parcel “Im rothen Suth” there is still a large spoil dump that points to the earlier mining.

literature

  • Rainer Slotta : Technical monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany 4 / I , published by the German Mining Museum Bochum 1983, p. 613 f. ISBN 3-921533-25-2
  • Church book Drabenderhöhe
  • Alfred Nehls: When the hammers roared in the valleys. Verlag Gronenberg, Wiehl 1996, ISBN 3-88265-200-4 .
  • Alfred Nehls: All wealth lay in the earth, The history of mining in the Oberbergischer Kreis , Verlag Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1993, ISBN 3-88265-180-6
  • Michael Gechter: Mining archeology in the Bergisches Land. In: Netzwerk Industriekultur Bergisches Land (Ed.): With fire and water. Klartext, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-88474-874-2 , pp. 18-21.
  • Heimatverein Drabenderhöhe eV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Karl-Heinz Lüdenbach: Grube Silberkaule , in: Loope, a home book , ed. Citizen and Heimatverein Loope eV, Loope 2012, p. 182 ff. ISBN 978-3-87314-473-6
  2. ^ A b Carl-Heinz Kalthoff and Heinz Lehmann: Expert opinion on the mining fields of the Vieille Montagne Altenberg and Silberkaule in the Federal Republic of Germany, Volume 1, Overath 1983, p. 103 ff.
  3. ^ Archaeological monuments in the community of Engelskirchen . Website of the community of Engelskirchen. Retrieved February 14, 2016

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