Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg

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The Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg is a circular hiking trail in the area of Sprockhövel - Gennebreck , - Herzkamp and Obersprockhövel on the border with Wuppertal , which connects various historical mining sites from the early days of coal mining in the Ruhr area .

At the southern edge of the Ruhr area, in the area of ​​the Herzkämper Mulde, the oldest seams of the Ruhr Carboniferous from the Upper Carboniferous ( Namur C ) strike the surface. This is why the oldest evidence of coal mining in the Ruhr area can be found here .

description

The Herzkämper Mulde, in the background the Gennebrecker Mühle
Lichtloch of the Herzkämper Erbstollen
Schee locality
Neo-Gothic church in Sprockhövel-Herzkamp

The 9.5 km long circular hiking trail was created by the Association of Mining Historic Sites Ruhrrevier eV; Working group Sprockhövel in cooperation with the Heimat- und Geschichtsverein Sprockhövel e. V. and was named after the geographical and geological structural element Herzkämper Mulde . A stylized tunnel mouth hole was chosen as a sign . The starting point is at the neo-Gothic church in the village of Herzkamp .

The Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg is thematically combined with five other mining hiking trails to form the “Coal Trace” theme route .

geology

The Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg opens up clastic deposits of the Upper Carboniferous, especially the highest Namur B and Namur C (318 to 316 million years ago).

In Namur formed on the northern edge of in the course of Variscan orogeny out lifting the Rhenish Slate Mountains , a foredeep out, and sands were poured from the south in the first tone, which were often used for the production of bricks. The deposits of the empty brick slate layers are in the area of ​​the Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg in the area of ​​the restored tunnel mouth hole of the Christsieper Erbstollen ( 51 ° 19 ′ 34.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 17 ″  E ) and the tunnel mouth hole and light hole No. 12 of the Herzkämper Erbstollen ( 51 ° 19 ′ 59.4 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 55.3 ″  E ).

The end of the brick slate sedimentation is marked by the onset of massive sandstone deposits, the "boundary sandstone". This is open in a small quarry on the Egen near Herzkamp ( 51 ° 19 ′ 6.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 24.8 ″  E ). The oldest coal seams are known from Namur C in the Sprockhövel area. On the flanks of the Herzkämper Mulde, among other things, the coal seams " Sengsbank ", " Dreckbank " (named because of the high proportion of "deaf" rock) and " main seam " of the Sprockhövel strata.

The seams were formed over long periods of time from cyclical deposits in a lagunar brackish water area crossed by rivers . Such a cyclotheme begins with fluvial sandstones and develops through sandy mudstones, mudstones with root soils to bog deposits, from which seams have emerged in the course of the earth's history through coalification . Along the mining path, the course of the surface seams "dirt bank" and "main seam" in the area of ​​the north wing of the Herzkämper Mulde near Niedersprockhövel can be traced using a row of pines and heaps ( 51 ° 19 ′ 21.5 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 27.2 ″  O ).

On the southern edge of the Herzkämper Mulde, in the area of ​​the Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg, pings and coal heaps from medieval smelting sites near Sankt Moritz ( 51 ° 18 ′ 59.9 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 26.4 ″  E ) mark the smear of small coal seams in the Sprockhövel layers. In the Sprockhövel area, coal and iron stone were mined in addition to hard coal . Coal iron stones are mixed rocks made of coal, clays and iron carbonate ( siderite ). These coal or clay iron stones occur widespread in the rocks of Namur C within coal seams and replace the coal almost completely in parts. In the area of ​​the hiking trail, the "Gustav" shaft of the iron stone mine is reminiscent of the early iron ore mining.

Attractions

The mining trail leads to 17 sites and objects from mining history, seven of which are explained on site with informative display boards.

  1. Neo-Gothic Herzkamp Church (1862), which is closely linked to the history of local mining.
  2. Gasthof Zur Post (1785) owned by the Lehn family. The innkeeper Heinrich Peter von Lehn was also shift supervisor at the Stöckerdreckbank colliery . In addition to the inn, the Kuxen family owned shares and levied tolls for coal transports across the main road.
  3. Neu Herzkamp shaft (1714) of the Stöckerdreckbank colliery. The shaft was the southernmost in the entire Ruhr area.
  4. House Bandweberei Prange and distillery Bräuckelchen , part-time places the miner families
  5. Bauernplatz (meeting place) Egen
  6. Fahrentrappe court, first mentioned in 837
  7. Lichtloch of the Herzkämper Erbstollen (1773). The Herzkämper Erbstollen was replaced by the Dreckbänker Erbstollen in 1860 .
  8. Adit mouth hole of the Kreßsieper (Christsieper) Erbstollen (1731)
  9. Halden on Kreßsieper Weg
  10. Old Coal Road
  11. Ringelsiepen, dump of the Sieper colliery and iron ore smelting (around 1650)
  12. The Pingenwald , Buschbank colliery and Sieper & Mühler Gruben colliery
  13. Schee locality . Customs office between the County of Mark and the Duchy of Berg , loading station on the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen-Hattingen and Schee-Silschede railway lines . Here, among other things, the seam dirt bank strikes ; mining here is first mentioned in 1547.
  14. Pinging in the woods In der Hütte (St. Moritz), Hütterbank colliery
  15. Gustav shaft of the Neu Herzkamp mine
  16. The courtyards at the mills
  17. Court of the Great Siepen

literature

  • Friends of Mining Historic Sites Ruhrrevier eV, Sprockhövel Working Group (Hrsg.): The trace of coal - Route 4 . The Herzkämper-Mulde-Weg - hiking trail through the history of early mining with directions and hiking map. 2nd Edition. Sprockhövel 1997.
  • Dieter Richter: Ruhr area and Bergisches Land. Between the Ruhr and Wupper. - Geol. Führer, 55, 3rd edition, Berlin, Stuttgart (1995), ISBN 978-3-443-15063-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Karl-Heinz Ribbert, with contributions by Hans Baumgarten, Arnold Gawlik, Jennifer Gechter-Jones, Michael Gechter, Franz Richter, Heinz Wilder: Geology in the Rhenish Slate Mountains, Part 2: Bergisches Land , Geological Service NRW (ed. ), Krefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-86029-935-7
  2. ↑ Volker Wrede with a contribution by Karl-Heinz Ribbert: Das Oberkarbon (Silesium) on the northern edge of the slate mountains on the right bank of the Rhine (Ruhrkarbon) In: Stratigraphie von Deutschland V: Das Oberkarbon (Pennsylvanium) in Germany, published in Courier Research Institute Senckenberg, volume 254, ed .: German Stratigraphic Commission., Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 978-3-510-61380-9 , pp. 225ff.
  3. ↑ a b c d Description of the geological objects ( memento of the original from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hgv-sprockhoevel.de
  4. ↑ Standard designation of the seams in the Ruhr area , accessed on January 4, 2013
  5. ^ Fritz Jansen: Explanations of the Geological Map of North Rhine-Westphalia, 1: 25000 sheet 4510 Witten, Krefeld 1980

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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 7 ″  E