Gustavschacht

Gustavschacht
General information about the mine
Mining technology	Longwall mining
Information about the mining company
Operating company	Potschappler Aktienverein
Start of operation	1827
End of operation	1848
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Mightiness	4.00 m
Greatest depth	173 m
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 0 '22.2 "  N , 13 ° 40' 56.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '22.2 "  N , 13 ° 40' 56.3"  E
Location Gustavschacht
Location	Birkigt
local community	Freital
District ( NUTS3 )	Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains
country	Free State of Saxony
Country	Germany

The Gustavschacht was a coal mine of the Potschappler Aktienverein . The shaft was located in the central part of the hard coal deposit of the Döhlen basin on the Birkierter corridor.

history

The owner of the Potschappel Manor , Johann Gustav Klette, began digging the shaft in 1827 . The at 270  m above sea level. The shaft set up above sea level reached a depth of 173 meters. From 169 meters the first  seam with a thickness of 4.00 meters was cut. A horse peg was used for the promotion.

The shaft stood on the southern edge of the Rote Ochsen , the main fault in the Döhlen basin. The edge zone of the fault was traversed with a 160 meter long cross passage to the south and the first seam, raised 42 meters here and falling to the south, was approached again. In a saiger depth of 4.90 meters below the 1st seam, the 2nd seam with a thickness of 1.00 meters and in a saiger depth of 4.00 meters below the 2nd seam became the 3rd seam with a thickness drive through from 1.00 meters. To the north, the faults in several clods had lowered the seams by 323 meters. The location of the shaft on the edge of the fault only allowed limited coal extraction.

The Potschappler Stolln, which comes in at a depth of approx. 110 meters, served to drain the mine field .

In 1836 the shaft was taken over by the Potschappler Aktienverein and dropped in 1848 .

Blind shaft 2 was sunk in 1978 by the “Willi Agatz” mining company of SDAG Wismut, 35 meters to the west of the shaft . From 1983 the field on Gustavschacht was re- opened from here . Battery locomotives of type EL 9 were used for horizontal conveyance .

literature

• Eberhard Gürtler, Klaus Gürtler: The hard coal mining in the Döhlen basin - shafts left and right of the Weißeritz , house of the homeland Freital, 2000
• Hermann Credner: Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony , Royal Finance Ministry, Leipzig, 1892

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holdings 10488 Landherrschaft Potschappel in the Saxon State Archives - Main State Archives Dresden
2. ↑ The mine railways of the Freital coal and uranium mining; Historic Feldbahn Dresden eV