Teut pit

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Malakow tower of the Teut mine around 1880

The Teut mine was a coal mine between Schweilbach and the Würselen district of Morsbach in the Aachen district .

history

In 1685 the city of Aachen had a pump works built on the Teutermühle on the Wurm and digging for coal. In 1772, 68 miners worked here. However, the mine became unprofitable and therefore closed during the French occupation.

The city of Aachen applied for a new concession for the mine in 1826, which was finally granted in 1851. Due to financial difficulties, the city of Aachen sold the concession in 1862 to the entrepreneur Karl Theodor Kuckhoff. This in turn sold them to the manufacturer Gerhard Lehm. In 1864, the production was resumed, the new pit was no longer built on the Wurmufer, but above the Wurmtal in today's Schweilbach district.

As early as 1866, the mine was producing over 20,000 tons of hard coal, a year later 30,000 tons. Six years later, the " Vereinigungsgesellschaft für Steinkohlenbau im Wurmrevier " acquired the mine. The Teut mine had two shafts, a production shaft and a weather shaft. A massive Malakow tower was erected over the 270-meter-sunk shaft . The mine reached its highest output in 1896 with around 120,000 tons. During this time it had siding to the Aachen Nord – Jülich railway and the Aachen tram .

In 1904 the mine was closed and underground production was relocated to the neighboring Gouley mine . The surface facilities were demolished in the following years and residential buildings were built on the area in the area of ​​today's Teutstrasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Jacob Schaetzke: Locally. History and stories of a mining company in the Aachen area. Eschweiler Mining Association . Aachen 1995. ISBN 978-3923773145 , p. 32 u. 36
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Ebbert: Die Grube Teut. In: Texts on the history of coal mining in the Aachen district from the Peter Packbier collection , accessed on February 24, 2016
  3. ↑ Reiner Bimmermann: freight traffic on the small electric cars in the Aachen area. The Museum Railway 1/1991, p. 11

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 6 ° 6 ′ 25.2 ″  E