Helmstedt lignite mining area

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Buschhaus power plant ; on the right in the background the Schöningen opencast mine
Bucket wheel of a bucket wheel excavator that was used in the Helmstedt and Treue opencast mines from 1955 to 1993
Historic bucket wheel excavator from the Schöningen opencast mine

The Helmstedter lignite area (also called Braunschweigisch-Helmstedtisches area ) is a mining area south of Helmstedt , in which salty lignite ( salt coal ) was mined using the open pit method . Of several opencast mines, the Schöningen-Süd opencast mine was last in operation, where the Schöningen spears were discovered. The two seams are together 32 m thick. The Helmstedter Revier was part of the Central German lignite mining area until 1945 and again today . Lignite mining ended in August 2016 .

history

The lignite in the Helmstedt-Oschersleber Mulde was formed 50 to 60 million years ago. In 1725 the first coal was discovered near Frellstedt . In 1795, the theology student Johann Koch built the first coal mine in Helmstedt. The coal mining took place underground. In 1872 the Brunswick Duke Wilhelm sold his brown coal fields to a bank consortium, from which the Braunschweigische Kohlen-Bergwerke AG (BKB) emerged. It became the largest mining company in the region. She later became the Preussen Elektra , and after its merger with the Bayernwerk of E.ON acquired. At the end of 2013, E.ON spun off the company, consisting of the power plant and the Schöningen open-cast mine, and sold it to MIBRAG , which runs the company as a wholly-owned subsidiary under the name Helmstedter Revier GmbH.

The district is partly in Lower Saxony , partly in Saxony-Anhalt ( district of Börde ). During the years of German-German division, the location on the former inner-German border also had a decisive influence on the history of the area and delayed the charring.

On August 30, 2016, the last coal was mined in the Helmstedt brown coal area.

Opencast mines

In 1874, the first open-cast mine, “ Trendelbusch ”, was put into operation. The opencast mines and the associated power plants were operated by BKB. The last opencast mine was shut down in 2016, the Schöningen opencast mine.

In the area of ​​these opencast mines were the following localities, which were demolished for the opencast mining: Büddenstedt (for this purpose Neu- Büddenstedt was re-established ), Alversdorf , Runstedt and Wulfersdorf .

Open pit Beginning The End status Location / locality country
Trendelbusch 1874 1916 Decommissioned, backfilled ⊙ north ofthe Buschhaus power station Lower Saxony
loyalty 1881 1993 Decommissioned, backfilled ⊙ north ofthe Buschhaus power station Lower Saxony
Victoria 1902 1963 Shut down, flooded ("Victoria Lake") ⊙ northeast ofHötensleben Saxony-Anhalt
Harbke 1922 1926 Closed down, became part of the Wulfersdorf open-cast mine ⊙ west ofHarbke Saxony-Anhalt
Anna (north / south) 1922 1935 Decommissioned, flooded ("Anna-See North / South") ⊙ northeast ofOffleben Lower Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt
Jacob's pit 1926 1931 Decommissioned, flooded ("Athenslebener Seen") southwest of Athens life ( central area ) Saxony-Anhalt
Wulfersdorf opencast mine 1936 1952 Shut down, partly tilted, rest is flooded (" Lappwaldsee ") ⊙ east of Neu-Büddenstedt Saxony-Anhalt
Alversdorf 1962 1991 Decommissioned, backfilled ⊙ west ofOffleben Lower Saxony
Helmstedt 1973 2002 Shut down, will be flooded until 2030 (" Lappwaldsee ") ⊙ south ofHelmstedt Lower Saxony
Schöningen (north / south) 1978 2016 North field charred, south field closed ⊙ east ofSchöningen Lower Saxony

See also

literature

  • LMBV (Ed.): Wulfersdorf. Landscapes and industrial locations in transition (=  Central German lignite mining area changes and perspectives . No. 14 ). Senftenberg September 2014 ( PDF, 6.84 MB [accessed April 21, 2020]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E.ON and MIBRAG sign contracts to sell the Helmstedt mining area. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Last ton of coal in the Helmstedter Revier mined Helmstedt. In: Wolfenbütteler Zeitung. wolfenbuetteler-zeitung.de, September 2, 2016, accessed on September 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Energy chronicle: E.ON is pushing waste incineration and wants to grow on udo-leuschner.de , especially abroad

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