Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Barbara-Chorzów

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The hard coal mine Barbara-Chorzów (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Barbara-Chorzów ; German Countess Laura Grube ) is a coal mine in Chorzów , Poland, which has been idle since 1993 .

Spin-offs and mergers of the Barbara-Chorzów KWK

history

The history of the two mines, Königsgrube and Gräfin-Laura-Grube, is closely linked. Initially detached from the mining field of the state-run Königsgrube , it was later reunited with the northern and eastern parts of this mine. The illustration on the right shows spin-offs and mergers.

The beginnings of the pit

This mine was created in 1869 from parts of the reserve fields of the Königsgrube , which were in the middle and north of Königsgrube. It comprised the fields "Countess Laura" with "Ernst August" (awarded August 8, 1857; 1.03 km²) as well as "God-give-happiness" (awarded April 5, 1860; 1.99 km²) and was entitled to 6.06 km². In 1871 the mine was sold to Hugo Henckel von Donnersmarck together with the joint stock company Vereinigte Königs- und Laurahütte . At this point in time the fields mentioned were still almost unscored; Mining and extraction were only started after the purchase. It was made because Donnersmarck wanted a coal base for the Königshütte that was close to one another. He named the mine after his second wife Laura, Countess von Hardenberg.

Kolejowy I shaft

The situation for the period around 1912 is as follows:

  • Some of the saddle seams dismantled during this period were very thick (e.g. "Gott-gebe-Glück III" with 3.38 m and "Gebhardflöz Niederbank" with 6 to 7 m).
  • The coal extracted was extremely pure and did not have to be processed.
  • The first sunk "Alexanderschacht" with a depth of 168 m was out of order.
  • The mine had two main shafts:
  1. Hugo ( Lage ) with shafts I (184 m; 2nd level) and II (340 m; double production; 4th level; drainage)
  2. Railway shaft system ( layer ) with shafts I (312 m; 4th level; drainage) and II (312 m; 3rd level; flushing offset)
  • In the north-east of the authorized person, the "Gott-Gebe-Glück-Schacht" was sunk at that time, which was supposed to be used for the cable car and the material transport.
  • There were also four weather shafts, two of which were in and two out.
  • In the field “Ernst August” ( Lage ) the old man was backfilled intensively , partly with slag from the blast furnaces of the Königshütte, partly with sand. A cable car was used to transport the slag.
  • “Alexanderschacht”, the Hugo mine, the railway shafts and the “Ernst-August-Schacht” were connected underground by crosscuts.

The period from 1922 to 1939

After the partition of Silesia in 1922, the mine became part of the “Górnośląkie Zjednoczone Huty Królewska i Laura SA”, the mine was named Hrabina Laura and the two pits operated under the names “Szyby Kolejowy” and “Szyby Hugona” ". As a result of the great economic crisis at the end of the 1920s and early 1930s, the mine was shut down on March 30, 1932.

After the liquidation of the “Königslaura” in 1936, the mine belonged to the “IG Kattowitz for Mining and Metallurgy” (“Wspolnota Interesow Gorniczo-Hutniczych”). It was named Kopalnia Chorzów in this context .

Countess Laura during World War II

After Germany's invasion of Poland, the Countess Laura mine was swamped in 1940 and the first coals (10,360 t) were brought to the surface again. At the end of 1941 it became part of the German group "Berg- und Hüttenwerkgesellschaft Karwin-Trzynietz" based in Cieszyn / Teschen.

CHP Chorzów

After the Second World War, the mine became part of the ZPW Bytom and - as in 1936 to 1940 - was called Chorzów . In connection with this renewed nationalization and reorganization, parts of the mine field in the north were given to the mines Andaluszja and Rozbark .

CHP Barbara-Wyzwolenie

The owner of the Königsgrube / Król , which had a size of 25.57 km² and from which the Countess Laura Grube had been spun off as early as 1870 , was divided into four areas in 1922 and initially, like many other former Prussian fiscal mines in Eastern Upper Silesia, by the Skarboferm been operated. During the Nazi occupation, the western and northern fields were combined to form a joint operation, which from 1945 bore the name Barbara-Wyzwolenie .

At that time, the south and east fields were also combined to form Prezydent , a system that was later merged into the Polska mine .

CHP Barbara-Chorzów

In 1970 the Barbara-Wyzwolenie mine was reunited with the Countess-Laura-Grube / KWK Chorzów under the name Barbara-Chorzów . In this context, the production in the north field ("Wyzwolenie") was stopped and the entire coal was lifted from the railway shafts ("Kolejowy 1/2"). This was made possible because the "Kolejowy 1" shaft had received a new headframe in 1957 and had two skip containers , each weighing 9.5 t. In addition, there had been numerous modernizations and expansions of the mine since the end of World War II. The weather and flushing shaft "Zygmunt August II" received a new pit ventilator and a masonry headframe in 1949, and at the beginning of the 1970s, mining started on the 630 m level.

As a result of the merger, the "Barbara 1/2" and "Wyzwolnie 1/2" facilities were only used as outdoor facilities for weather management, material transport and rope travel.

Since after the end of communism in Poland it turned out that the Kopalnia Barbara-Chorzów was working deficit, the mine was closed on November 24, 1993.

present

The Kolejowy 1 and Zygmunt August II shafts have been used for central water retention since 1996.

In 2014 there was a press release from the “Fasing Group” that it wanted to resume mining on Barbara-Chorzów within two years . This news is confirmed by a newspaper report by Dziennik Zachodni on February 4, 2015.

Funding figures

Countess Laura Grube / Chorzów 1873: 458,023 t; 1913: 968,556 t; 1965: 833,619 tons

Barbara-Wyzwolenie 1938: 1.14 million t; 1965: 1.31 million t

Barbara-Chorzów 1970: 1.98 million t; 1979: 1.72 million t

swell

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Śląski Instytut Naukowy, Katowice 1984, ISBN 83-00-00648-6 .
  • 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).
  • Kurt König: The coal mining in Upper Silesia from 1945–1955 . Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Published by the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute. Marburg 1958.
  • Norbert Meier, Dortmund working group in the Friends of Mining Historic Sites Ruhrrevier eV (Ed.): Königsgrube and Königshütte . No place, May 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summary of the statements in the yearbook of the Oberbergamtsiertel p. 376
  2. ↑ Meier, Königsgrube and Königshütte , p. 116.
  3. ↑ Meier, Königsgrube and Königshütte, p. 132.
  4. ↑ Meier, Königsgrube and Königshütte, p. 143.
  5. ↑ Meier, Königsgrube and Königshütte, p. 143 ff.
  6. ↑ Meier, Königsgrube and Königshütte, p. 151.
  7. ↑ Publication and comments at http://gornictwo.wnp.pl/fasing-chce-uruchomic-kopalnie-w-chorzowie,237227_1_0_0.html (accessed on December 16, 2015)
  8. ↑ see the website http://www.dziennikzachodni.pl/artykul/3738975,kopalnia-barbara-w-chorzowie-chca-fedrowac-bo-tu-wegla-nie-brakuje,id,t.html (accessed on 16 December 2015).

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