High Grete

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High Grete
General information about the mine
Funding / total 1,019,840 t of iron ore
Information about the mining company
Employees 538 (1892)
Start of operation before 1650
End of operation October 31, 1901
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Iron ore
Greatest depth 480 m
Geographical location
Coordinates 50 ° 45 '49 "  N , 7 ° 38' 23"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '49 "  N , 7 ° 38' 23"  E
Hohe Grete (Rhineland-Palatinate)
High Grete
Location Hohe Grete
Location Wickhausen
local community Splendor
District ( NUTS3 ) Altenkirchen
country State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
District Bergrevier Hamm an der Sieg

Hohe Grete was a mine in Wickhausen , a district of the local parish Pracht near Hamm (Sieg) in the Altenkirchen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

year advancement
1861 2,346 t
1865 8,058 t
1870 8,404 t
1884 32,536 t
1885 21,370 t
1894 44,064 t
1897 35,409 t

From 1650 iron ore was verifiably mined in Wickhausen . In 1816 the mining rights were granted again. In 1827 the mine became the property of JH Dresler in Siegen .

The deep tunnel at 125 m above sea level was created from 1835 and reached the corridor after 1020 m in 1865. The 40 m depth of the Wilhelm tunnel at 144 m above sea level was constructed from 1805. Civil engineering began in 1773. In 1864 the “Wilhelmschacht” (“Alter Schacht”) was built as a blind shaft from the deep tunnel and a steam engine with 12 hp was installed. Shaft I followed in 1867 with a depth of 158 m. It was enlarged to 430 m in 1881 and got the dimensions 3.23 × 4.10 m. In 1885 the shaft was 185 m deep and equipped with a 40 HP steam engine for extraction and two more, also with 40 HP, for drainage. To date, four soles had been created, the rope journey took place at 2 m / s. The total depth of the pit was 430 m. In 1892, 538 staff members worked in the mine. In 1897, the Wissener Hütten-AG took over the mine, and mining stopped a year later. On October 31, 1901, the mine was completely shut down. At the end of the 19th century, the mine was processed with a two-cylinder steam engine with 12 hp. The train stop of the village of Pracht on the RB90, Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn, is named after the mine and is also called Hohe Grete. The deep tunnel was used to supply Geilhausen with water . In 1974 the new machine shaft (located at 200 m above sea level) collapsed and was secured by a concrete seal.

Aisle means

The siderite vein of the Hohe Grete mine streaked north-south and dipped to the west. Buildable amounts of copper pebbles and galena broke on the bottom of the tunnel. Disturbances formed the aisle ends. The corridor itself, which was divided into individual clods, was shaped by a large number of shifts. In the north-south direction, the corridor was worth building for around 150 to 200 m. The thickness of the main corridor was partly 20 to 25 m, that of the other means was also a considerable 4 to 10 m. The good ore quality of the main vein was adversely affected by an adjacent quartz vein from the 5th underground level.

Walk lengths per sole (if known)

sole Corridor length in m Aisle area in m²
6. TS 260 m 260
7. TS 301 m 163 690
8. TS 35

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1862
  2. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1866
  3. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1871
  4. ↑ a b c d e f G. Wolf: Description of the mountain district Hamm an der Sieg ; Bonn 1885
  5. ^ Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Der Füssenberg - The great time of the Siegerland iron ore mining , Bertelsmann Fachzeitschriften-Verlag Gütersloh, 1994.
  6. ^ Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1895
  7. ^ A b Journal for the mining, smelting and salt works in the Prussian state , Berlin; Edition 1898
  8. ↑ a b c Institute for Geothermal Resource Management: Study to record and quantify the heat flow from flooded mine workings of the former ore mining in Hamm / Sieg and assessment of geothermal potential uses

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