Inderevier
The Inderevier is a former mining region for the extraction of hard coal in the area of the so-called Indemulde of the Aachen district . The Inderevier mainly included the Eschweiler Kohlberg in the area of Eschweiler and Nothberg , the Weisweiler Kohlberg and the southwestern Münsterkohlberg between Stolberg and Münsterbusch with the James pit . It is named after the Inde flowing there . The coal extracted here, along with the ores, was the basis of the industrial boom in the Eschweiler-Stolberg area . The Inderevier is separated from the Wurmrevier ( Alsdorf , Kohlscheid , Würselen ) by the non-coal-based Aachener Sattel .
Pits
Important mines in the Inderevier were
exploitation
The Eschweiler Mining Association ( EBV) played a decisive role in the Inderevier .
Already in 1394 mentioned in a document "Eschweiler Kohlberg" and the "Weisweiler Kohlberg" in the northeast on the one hand and the "Munster Kohlberg" in the southwest on the other hand are indeed geologically to Inderevier, but were territorial centuries in Duchy of Jülich and Kornelimünster Abbey divided. In 1542 , the first mountain order applicable to the Indian area around Eschweiler came into force. With the pit reserve drank in 1944 , the last Eschweiler mine from the Indereviers.
geology
In the Upper Carboniferous , extensive marsh vegetation was formed in the valley floor of the Inde , regularly flooded by seawater and rivers from the High Fens , so that layers of coal could develop. Some of these seams were later removed by erosion in such a way that, as can still be seen today in the Eschweiler city forest , they emerged from the surface.
This indulgence is traversed by the Inde in the strip Atsch - Pump-Stich - Eschweiler - Nothberg - Weisweiler until the "Frauenrather Sprung" near Inden . Approximately in the middle at the Ichenberg it is traversed by the so-called "sand garment" in a north-south direction. While the Indemulde and thus also the Inderevier in the north are separated from the Wurmrevier ( Alsdorf , Kohlscheid , Übach-Palenberg , Hückelhoven , Siersdorf , Kerkrade ) by the non-coal-based Aachener Sattel , the foothills of the Eifel form the natural border to the south .
The youngest layers within their coal-bearing rock layers are in their core and belonged to the so-called inland works of the Eschweiler Kohlberg. Of the so-called Stolberg strata, only the upper ones in the area of the Atsch and Birkengang pits in the west of the Inderevier were worth mining .
literature
- Kohlhaas, Anton, history of hard coal mining in today's urban area of Stolberg (Rhld.). Contributions to the history of Stolberg and local history, Vol. 12, Stolberg 1965.
- Schaetzke, Hans Jakob, on site, Eschweiler mining association, history and stories of a mining company in the Aachen area, Herzogenrath 1995, ISBN 3-923773-15-3 .