Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Śląsk

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The Śląsk hard coal mine (German Schlesiengrube ) was a mine that was initially located in the Chropaczów district of Świętochłowice and worked as a successor in the Kochłowice district of Ruda Śląska until 2018 .

history

Schlesiengrube

On July 6, 1883, Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck consolidated the coal fields "Gabor", "Jung-Detlev" and "Excellenz" in the district of Chropaczów belonging to the Donnersmarck-Neudeck family under the name of Silesia . Chropaczów was called Schlesiengrube from 1909 to 1922 . The field had a size of 3.20 km². It was cut very unfavorably in its southeastern area because it was only about 100 m wide and was constrained by the Mathilde / Matylda mine and the Königsgrube / KWK Król . Therefore, at least in 1913, this corner in the southeast and three fields in the southwest were leased to the Mathilde Pit by Count Guido.

In 1883, the sinking of shafts I and II immediately north of the Guidotto zinc smelter ( location ), which also belonged to Guido's possession, began, and in 1884 the first coal was mined. Both shafts found a largely drained mountain range; the alignment of the mine workings turned out to be difficult because of strong faults. In 1912, the sinking of a third shaft on the main plant began.

CHP Śląsk (old)

After the First World War, Germany had to cede some areas to the new Polish state in the Peace Treaty of Versailles , including the Upper Silesian coal mining area. From 1922 the Silesian Mine was named Śląsk . From 1945 to 1957 it belonged to the “Union for the Coal Industry” in Chorzów and from 1957 to the “Katowice Union for the Coal Industry”. On January 1, 1967, the Śląsk and Matylda mines in Lipiny were merged under the name Śląsk-Matylda.

As the stocks were gradually exhausted, the transition to the new mine of the same name in Ruda-Kochłowice took place in 1968, which was completed with the closure of the old facilities and the takeover of the workforce in 1976. All shafts were filled and the old daytime facilities demolished.

CHP Śląsk (new)

The mine ( Lage ), built in 1968 as the successor mine, worked independently from 1968 to 2005 and was part (Ruch Śląsk) of the Wujek mine operated by Katowicki Holding Węglowy SA until 2017 . Their construction area is limited to the north by the Kleofas colliery and to the east by the Wujek colliery . To the west, parts of the now closed Wirek mine were taken over. After a mountain attack in 2015 in which two miners died, the mining authorities forbade further mining in the “Panewnicki” field. Therefore, the new owner, Polska Grupa Górnicza, decided to shut down the Śląsk department on February 1, 2018 and transfer it to Spółka Restructureyzacji Kopalń SA

Funding figures

1913: 968,908 t; 1938: 538,600 t; 1965: 339,050 tons; 1979: 2.02 million t

swell

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Katowice 1984.
  • Manfred Rasch: The entrepreneur Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2016, ISBN 978-3837515077 .
  • Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw . Phönix-Verlag, Kattowitz / Breslau / Berlin 1913, digitized version at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 (last accessed on May 5, 2015).
  • At the Internet address http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS (last accessed July 14, 2015) you can find 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files showing the field boundaries, seams and shafts show the stock from 1902 in excellent quality. These cards were issued by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung Breslau”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rasch: Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck . P. 91.
  2. ↑ Plan of the mine field on the website http://swietochlowice.fotopolska.eu/1951,foto.html?o=b1015&p=1 (accessed on October 6, 2016)
  3. ↑ PGG Magazyn February 2018, p. 10 pdf online . Accessed March 17, 2018