Heinrichssegen
| Heinrichssegen | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Rare minerals | Barite , tetrahedrite , stephanite , pyrargyrite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 210 | ||
| Start of operation | 1663 | ||
| End of operation | 1927 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Iron ore , galena , copper pebbles | ||
| Greatest depth | 247 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 27 " N , 8 ° 0 ′ 20.3" E | ||
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| Location | Littfeld | ||
| local community | Kreuztal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Mountain area Müsen | ||
Heinrichssegen was an ore mine near Littfeld , a district of Kreuztal in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .
Vein resources and ore deposits
The two corridors of the mine were the main corridor and the Werner corridor . The main corridor was 270 m long and 0.5 to 4 m thick. He mainly carried silver-containing pale ores , in which copper and lead ores , as well as barite and pyrites were found. The Wernergang was 150 m long and 4 to 10 m thick and mostly carried barite with pale, copper and lead ores.
100 kg of lead ore contained 66 g of silver and a lead content of 60%. 100 kg copper pyrites contained up to 26% copper and 100 kg pale ore contained up to 1560 g silver. Lead, copper and pale ores were promoted; In 1784 the mining of red gold ore was first reported.
history
Beginnings and tunnels
From 1663 onwards, there was evidence of a search for ore in the former “Platz” mine. In 1705 the production was stopped. A new award took place on August 10, 1737 by Johann Heinrich Jung . He died in 1786.
The upper tunnel , called the "Holland tunnel ", was created before 1750, as it was already mentioned as existing that year. A deep tunnel followed around 1750 , with a later length of 843 m it brought a depth of up to 61 m underground. An average of three miners were employed on the construction. The tunnel received inheritance rights from 1845 . A third tunnel was the so-called deep Heinrichssegener tunnel , which was created from 1845 and was 38.6 m below the deep tunnel . It brought a depth of almost 100 m underground, had a length of 722 m in 1857, 808 m in 1855 and met the Wernergang in June 1856 after a length of 843 m .
Boom
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From 1815 on the upswing started on the mine. In 1820 the mine was renamed Heinrichssegen in gratitude to Bergmeister Jung . The mining rights were reassigned on October 29, 1834. Civil engineering began in 1852. The blind shaft was built in the deep Heinrichssegen tunnel and had a depth of 125.5 m. The first level was hewn at a depth of 63 m, the second at 125.5 m. The shaft was equipped with a turbine. From 1879 a day shaft was created. This reached a depth of 247 m.
The copper and gray ore production (see table) was significantly higher than the lead ore production. In 1853, 105 t, in 1861 43 t and in 1885 6 t of lead ore were mined.
In April 1918 the production was stopped, from 1919 the mine belonged to the Victoria mine , the main facilities of which were located about 1300 m northeast of those of Heinrichssegen. At the end of the day, 40 employees were employed. In 1861 there were 192, in 1862 210. In 1927 Heinrichssegen was completely shut down. Consolidations existed with the pits Elias , Ernst Wilhelm , Beschert Glück and Erstling .
See also
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- Minerals from the pit at mindat.org