Honigsmund-Hamberg

Honigsmund-Hamberg
	General information about the mine
	The pit around 1913 as seen through the chimneys of the Gosenbacher Hütte .
Rare minerals	Ullmanite
	Information about the mining company
Employees	416 (1885)
Start of operation	1417
End of operation	1942
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Iron ore
Greatest depth	800 m
	Geographical location
Coordinates	50 ° 51 '12 " N , 7 ° 57' 14" E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '12 " N , 7 ° 57' 14" E
	Location Honigsmund-Hamberg
Location	Gosenbach
local community	Wins
District ( NUTS3 )	Siegen-Wittgenstein
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Bergrevier Siegen I

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The Honigsmund-Hamberg mine was a composite mine near Gosenbach , a district of Siegen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It was created between 1880 and 1885 from the two pits Honigsmund and Hamberg .

Aisle means

The honeycomb passage center was 200 m long and 5.8 m thick on the 105 m level. Junge Hamberg and Weide was 151 m long and 1–1.5 m thick, the Hamberger and Kornzecher Mittel passage was up to 330 m long and 3.8 m thick.

history

Iron ore mining
year	Honeymouth	Hamberg	total
1855	13,300 t	6,230 t	19,530 t
1857	13,500 t	8,300 t	21,800 t
1858	16,200 t	8,180 t	24,380 t
1859	15,000 t	8,900 t	23,900 t
1860	12,769 t	8,845 t	21,614 t
1862	18,391 t	13,334 t	31,725 t
1863	22,240 t	17,126 t	39,366 t
1864	23,265 t	17,666 t	40,931 t
1865	39,995 t	22,620 t	62,615 t
1866	32,056 t	21,057 t	53,113 t
1867	38,390 t	21,125 t	59,515 t

Honeymouth

The Honigsmund mine was first mentioned in 1482. It consisted of a consolidation of nine individual mine fields. According to old information, just under 10.8 t of copper ore were mined in 1743.

Hamberg

The Hamberg mine was first mentioned in 1417. Civil engineering began in 1866. The created shaft reached the first level at a depth of 25 m.

Composite

The network was established between 1880 and 1885 and was connected to the Storch & Schöneberger mine railway. In 1885, 416 employees produced a total of 48,417 t of Spateisenstein. In the same year the Kaiserin Augusta shaft was created. The shaft reached a depth of 650 m, the total depth of the pit was 800 m. On January 1, 1911, the mine was taken over by the neighboring Storch & Schöneberg mine . Until 1919 the shaft was extracted, from then on from Storch . In 1942 the company was completely closed.

Consolidations

A consolidation of the Hamberg mine existed with the Kornzeche mine in Gosenbach. The passageway on which the Hamberg mine was built was encountered through the Tiefen Kornzecher tunnel .

Web links

Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )

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T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
Journal for mining, metallurgy and saltworks in the State of Prussia , issues 1855–68