Hollert train
| Hollert train | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / total | 1.3 million t of iron ore | ||
| Rare minerals | Anchorite , chalcosiderite , dufrénite , lepidocrocite , scorodite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 300 (1900) | ||
| Start of operation | 1816 (Consolidation of six long-standing individual mines or unions) | ||
| End of operation | 1910 | ||
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| Degradation of | Iron ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 240 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| Location | Herdorf | ||
| local community | Herdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Altenkirchen | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Daaden-Kirchen mountain area | ||
The Hollertszug was an iron ore mine in Herdorf in the Altenkirchen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It was one of the numerous - and with its original individual pits - also one of the oldest mines in town.
Aisle means
The passage means of the pit were in the depth from 10 to 12 m thick and the lug sole nearly 1000 m long. The gangway area to be dismantled here was 2200 m². The individual passageways Mittelberg / Euel and Oberster Pferdestall were between 5 and 6 m thick in the upper depths and contained spate iron stone and brown iron stone of very good quality. The Fe content in the Spateisenstein was 48.8% after roasting.
history
The first mentions of the pit on the "Hollerter Gangzug", which extends over a length of approx. 2 km from the district of Dermbach to the vicinity of the Druidenstein, go back to the second half of the 18th century. In 1792 Bergrat LW Cramer published his “Complete News from the Hollerter Train, an important iron stone works”, in which he cannot give any precise information about the beginning of mining in this area, but estimates it to be in the first half of the 16th century. More than 10 individual pits and unions were active on the corridor and extracted the ore through numerous open shafts and tunnels. In 1726, the 390 m long “manorial tunnels” were created, which were later renamed the Alexander tunnels. The "Alt Hollerter Stöllgen" is said to have been even older, but not documented with dates. It was no longer used at the end of the 18th century and was later reopened as the "Regulatus tunnel". The Eueler Stollen, later called Friedrichstollen, followed around 1730. From 1780 the “deep Erbstollen” - also known as the “Hüttengewerker Stollen” - was created below the village, which reaches the corridor after almost 600 m and continues there for more than 1,300 m. Even at this point in time, the Hollerter pits enjoyed a high reputation. In his mineralogical description from 1789, Becher names it as the most important iron stone mine in the county of Sayn-Altenkirchen. The pits on the passage train together produced approx. 4000 tons of iron stone annually. A Seigerriss from 1792 shows the ten mine fields that existed at that time and already shows the cooperation between individual trade unions. As head of the Kirchen Mining Authority, Cramer also ordered the individual pits to be interconnected to improve the water solution and ventilation.
On 26 July 1816, the consolidation of the mines took place Offhäuser , Hühnerhord , Althollert , Junghollert , Mittelberg and Euel to form a composite, which later contracted the eastern mines Supreme stables, Unterster stables and pig's head joined. Between 1826 and 1835, the Hollertszug mine produced an average of 5900 t of iron ore each year, which was considerable for the time. On September 28, 1820, the Königsstollen was also excavated from the Hellertal valley. A new colliery house, roasting ovens and the other facilities of the Hollertszug mine were then built in the immediate vicinity. The Königsstollen brought a depth of 76 m under the Hollerter Erbstollen and was completed in 1863 with a length of 1822 m. It provided information on a calculated 500,000 t of iron stone in the passage train, which, with an annual extraction of 4,000 t, would have given the mine a lifespan of 125 years. While in 1860 the mine was ahead of the other Herdorf mines Stahlert , Friedrich Wilhelm and Random Glück in the production statistics , it lagged behind more and more in the following years. In 1877, it was in 28th place in the Siegerland, while the neighboring Bollnbach mine was in 6th place. In addition, the ore reserves continued to decline. In 1866 there were still 98,000 t of ore to be mined, in 1890 it was 34,000 t. In 1880 170 miners worked in the mine.
In the meantime, a modernization of the mine that was unique in the Siegerland had been carried out. From 1889 an electric mine train from AEG drove through the "Königsstollen". It was powered by 500 V direct current. In 1892 the electrification of the mine was further expanded. Before the ore reserves were mined in the 1890s, new tunnels were sought. In 1890 it was decided to build a civil engineering plant. In 1893 it received an electric hoisting machine with a 100 kW direct current motor. The blind shaft, set up in the Königsstollen , reached the first level at 40 m and in 1893 the 80 m level and went into operation with both levels. While 5,000 t were extracted in 1895, production dropped to 1958 t in 1897. New ore deposits were opened up through the later 240 m deep blind shaft, which increased the production in 1899 to almost 20,000 t of iron ore. A year later, the mine, which now numbered 300 miners, achieved the highest production in the history of the mine at 50,030 t, although this fell sharply in the following years. The unlocked reserves amounted to 323,000 t of iron ore.
On October 9, 1901, the consolidation with the Tiefen Königsstollen took place . In the same year a railway to Herdorf was built. In 1908, after years of exploration work, production finally came to a standstill. In 1910, 26 tons of iron ore were mined before the mine was finally closed. The total production of the Hollerts train was 1.3 million t of unprocessed iron stone. In the 1920s, the Bollnbach mine wanted to cut an investigation section at a depth of 550 m, but this came to a standstill due to the closure of the mine in early 1927.
Consolidations
There were consolidations with the following pits, among others:
- The uppermost horse stable in the Dermbach district was laid out in 1780.
- Peterszeche in the districts of Sassenroth and Biersdorf existed between 1872 and 1884. In 1872 it emerged from a consolidation of the Hellmannskaute , Dreieinigkeit , Steimel , Minerva mines , civil engineering was operated from 1876, the shaft was 4.4 × 1.57 m in size and a depth of 124 m (2 levels). There were three tunnels next to the shaft. The total production was 25,727 t of iron ore.
- The lowest stable laid out in 1766, consolidated with Hollertszug in 1891.
- Regulatus , previously hitched to Alt Hollerter Stöllgen before 1720, re-muted in 1869 and consolidated as early as 1870 with Hollertszug.
See also
literature
- HD Gleichmann, J. Gleichmann: The Hollerter train - an important iron stone works in Siegerland. In: Der Anschnitt 35, 1983, pp. 12-21
- Hans Dietrich Gleichmann: Stahlberg, Hollertszug and Eisenzeche - From collieries and mines of the Siegerland , Verlag Höppner & Göttert, Siegen 1997. ISBN 3-924948-45-3
- Artur Gotthardt: The Hollertszug iron ore mine and its Tiefer Königsstollen , Herdorf, 2004, self-published
- Ute Bosbach: Searching for traces in Eisenland - On the way on ore roads and miners ' paths, amadeusmedien, November 2006. ISBN 3-9808936-8-5
Individual evidence
- ^ A. Ribbentrop: Description of the mountain district Daaden-Kirchen ; Bonn 1882
