Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Centrum
The Karsten-Centrum hard coal mine (Polish name Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Centrum) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in the Karf district of Bytom , Poland.
history
The construction of a mine under the name Karsten-Zentrum began in 1872, and the first coal was mined in 1879. The authorized area of 8.09 km² was created through the consolidation of several coal fields ("Karsten" 1860; "Centrum" 1859; "Comet" 1859; "Beuthen" 1867; "Kaiser-Wilhelm" 1873) by dividing the field "Don't stay alone "). The mine belonged to the Silesian AG for Mining and Zinc Works , so that not only coal but also zinc and lead ores were mined in the fields mentioned.
In 1938 the mine had three delivery shafts, "Gaertner" 774 m (double delivery; cable journey; moving in weather shaft), "Vüllers" 774 m (cable journey; moving out; later called "Staszic") and "Drescher" 585 m (cable journey; drawing in) as well a weather shaft 470 m. A total of 1.627 million tons of hard coal were mined by 4,049 men.
From 1945 the colliery was named Zentrum , from 1950 to 1990 the name Dymitrov , in honor of a Bulgarian communist. In May 1990 the mine was renamed Centrum after a vote among the workforce .
At that time the mine had five shafts: "Staszic" (old name Vüllers), "Rejtan" (shaft I) and "Skarga" (shaft II) with headframes, a concrete tower with skip conveyance over the Budryk shaft and the weather shaft " Wodny ".
The colliery has always suffered from difficult geological conditions as well as the dangers of methane ignition and rockfalls. In 1979 there was a coal dust explosion with 10 deaths and in 1982 there was an ignition of methane, which caused 18 deaths. The mountain blows and the mining damage caused by the mining under the city of Bytom have led to tensions between the mine operators and the workforce on the one hand and the city population on the other.
On January 1, 2005, the mine was combined with Bytom III ( Gräfin-Johanna-Grube / Bobrek and Preußengrube / Miechowice ) to form the composite mine Bobrek-Centrum , where it was run as the "Ruch Centrum".
Also because the loss of the composite mine in the 4th quarter of 2014 was 100.96 zł per ton of coal extracted, the current owner, Kompania Węglowa SA, decided to dissolve the association. While "Ruch Bobrek" was sold to the Węglokoks, "Ruch Centrum" was assigned to Spółka Restructureyzacji Kopalń SA . Their board of directors decided on May 9, 2015 to shut down the mine with immediate effect and to complete this by December 31, 2020.
Funding figures
- 1913: 541,947 tons
- 1938: 1.80 million tons
- 1970: 2.51 million t
- 1979: 3.87 million t
Remarks
- ↑ see also the Wikipedia article about Bytom section "History"
- ↑ To compare the sales figures in 2014 see Kompania Węglowa - 12 z 15 kopalń na minusie , accessed on November 19, 2015.
- ↑ see http://srk.com.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SRK_ODDZIAL_KWK_Centrum.pdf (accessed on January 25, 2016)
literature
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Katowice 1984.
- Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw . Phönix-Verlag, Kattowitz / Breslau / Berlin 1913 ( digitized version , last accessed on May 5, 2015).
- Prussian Mining Authority in Breslau (ed.): The Silesian Mines 1938 . Publishing house NS-Druckerei, Breslau.
- 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.
- Paul Deutsch: The Upper Silesian coal and steel industry before and after the division of the industrial area . Bonn 1926.
Web links
- 43 seam maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files, the field boundaries, seams and shafts according to the inventory from 1902, published by the "Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung, Breslau" (accessed on July 14, 2015)
Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 17.6 ″ N , 18 ° 53 ′ 36.6 ″ E