Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Jan Kanty

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The Jan Kanty mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Jan Kanty ) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in Jaworzno , Poland.

history

The Jaworznoer trade union SA ( Gwarectwo Jaworznickie ), which immediately after the First World War took over the former Galician coal fields northwest of Jaworzno and thus had an entitlement of approx. Rudolf / Kościuszko and Friedrich-August / Piłsudski 1920 the Jan Kanty colliery with the two pits Niedzieliska I and II. It was named after Jan Kanty Steczkowski , Prime Minister of the regency of Poland .

Scaffolding over the Witold I shaft

At the same time as the two shafts were being sunk, surface facilities and a rail link to the Jaworzno-Szczakowa line were constructed.

The colliery produced 108,000 t in 1923 and 123,000 t in 1924, and was able to increase it to such an extent that in 1929 340 miners were able to lift 180,000 t of coal. But here, too, the global economic crisis brought a significant decline in production and the number of employees.

This situation only changed after Germany's invasion of Poland and the occupation of the country. As with the other mines in the region around Jaworzno, this mine came under the administration of EVO (Elektroversorgung Oberschlesien) and so both prisoners of war and prisoners from Auschwitz had to work underground. Shortly before the end of the war, 500,000 tons of coal were extracted due to the associated increase in the workforce.

The post-war period brought with it a number of restructuring measures, which were often changed or reversed after a few years. In 1945 it came to a merger with the neighboring Leopold mine and in 1947 to a merger with Piłsudski and Kościuszko, which was dissolved again in 1954.

In 1953 the mine was named Komuna Paryska after the Paris Commune , which existed for a short time in 1871 and lasted until 1989.

The fifties were marked by large investments in further operating facilities, which included the Jerzy, Jęzor V, Marian V, Artur, Jerzy II and Zygmunt shafts. As a result, as well as increasing the workforce to 3,900 people, the limit of 1 million tons of coal was broken in 1957. In 1973 a winding tower was added over the Withold II shaft, which, in addition to coal, also unearthed 720 t of ore annually.

Concrete tower over the Witold II shaft

Although production fell abruptly to around 1 million t in the early 1990s, considerable investments were still made during this period. In 1992 a new laundry was built for 145 billion zlotys and a desulphurisation plant in 1993 for 270 billion.

In the end, in addition to the main Witold I / II and the Leopold shaft, there was also the Jęzor VI mine, the Wschodni weather shaft and the Krasicki shaft.

  • Witold I 290.4 m (conveying 270 m level)
  • Witold II 336.3 m (double conveyance on the 330 m level, rope journey; retracting weather shaft)
  • Jęzor VI 152.2 m (material transport; extending)
  • Shaft XI 270.7 m (material transport; extending)

The mine was shut down on July 31, 2000 and many daytime facilities were demolished.

Funding figures

1924: 123,000 t; 1970: 1.78 million t; 1979: 2.51 million t

swell

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  • Zygfryd Piątek. Coal mining in Poland in the interwar period from 1918 to 1939. In: The cut. 52nd volume, issue 1/2000.
  • Werner Röhr. On the role of heavy industry in annexed Polish Upper Silesia for the war economy in Germany from 1939 to 1949. Yearbook for Economic History Volume 130. Downloaded as a PDF file from http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/JWG/jwg_index.html (last Accessed October 5, 2015).
  • Siegmund Bergmann. Galicia, its cultural and economic development. o. o. o. J.

Web links

  • A lot of factual information, pictures and short videos about the mines in Jaworzno and the surrounding area can be found on the website http://www.stacjajaworzno.c0.pl/news.php (last accessed on November 21, 2015).

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 14.2 "  N , 19 ° 14 ′ 49.9"  E