Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Ludwik-Concordia
The Ludwigsglück-Concordia (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Ludwik-Concordia ) coal mine is a former composite mine of the originally independent Ludwigsglück and Concordia collieries in the northeast of Zabrze (now Hindenburg OS), Poland.
history
Ludwigsluck
The "Ludwigsglück" ( location ) field in Zabrze-Biskupine was proposed on February 26, 1852 by Gustav Heinrich von Ruffer, an industrialist from Breslau. It got its name from Carl Ludwig von Ballestrem , a member of the Ballestrem family, who were also wealthy in Biskupine and who also owned the Hedwigswunsch and Castellegno collieries in Zabrze . The mine later belonged to Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck , before it passed into the ownership of Albert Borsig in 1876, together with other mine fields .
After the sinking of three shafts had already begun in 1860 , it was not until 1873 that the first coal could be lifted from the Einsiedel seam through the "Ernstschacht".
Due to the small size of the Ludwigsglück field with 0.79 km², it was already necessary in the 1880s to sink the existing shaft (original name Förderschacht; later "Konrad") to 225 m deeper and to build another shaft (first "Guido", later called "Conrad"; 226 m) to be sunk in order to be able to mine all saddle seams with a total thickness of 20 m. In 1899 a weather and material shaft was added. A pit fire that broke out in November 1899 and left 10 dead put the mine shut down for almost two years. This downtime was used to modernize the plant above and below ground. In 1903 the sand flushing process was introduced; for this purpose, the Annaschacht had been sunk in the northeast corner of the field. The dewatering was carried out via the Ernst and Conrad shafts, which were sunk to a depth of 350 m between 1901 and 1912.
Since the actual authorized person was very small, the colliery formed an operating community from the beginning with the fields "Altenberg II", "Borsig I" and parts of "Maria-Anna II" and thus came to a total size of 4.49 km².
On the eve of the First World War, the mine employed over 1200 people and produced around 470,000 t of hard coal. Since the mine remained with the German Empire when Upper Silesia was partitioned, the ownership structure changed only insignificantly until and during the Second World War.
In 1937, the mine had the two production shafts "Ernst" (305 m) and "Konrad" (305 m; both cable travel and moving weather shafts) as well as two extending weather shafts with a depth of 126 m and 132 m. At this point in time, the 3,175 employees mined 1.672 million tonnes of coal and increased this to over 2 million tonnes by 1943.
In April 1945 the colliery was nationalized and in 1958 merged with Concordia and Michael to form Ludwik-Concordia . In 1973 the merger took place, another merger with Rokitnica-Mikulczyce to form the new Rokitnica composite mine . Three years later, Pstrowski was added to the network as the last mine , so that all mines in the north of Zabrze were united under this name. The Ludwik mine itself was shut down in 1994 and part of the daytime facilities demolished. The chews, the scaffolding over the Tadeusz shaft with the associated shaft hall, some workshop buildings and the administration building at ul. Hagera have been preserved to this day. (Production in 1873: 162 t; 1913: 492,108 t; 1938: 1.93 million t)
Amalie
The first sources report on September 19, 1797 that coal mining was carried out on the Amalie colliery by a person (official title?) Called Hofrichter from Zabrze. After numerous changes of ownership (Georg Karl Landgrave of Hesse and Maximilian Joseph, King of Bavaria), the mine finally came to Carl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck around 1850 . Together with other properties belonging to the Donnersmarck family (Tarnowitz-Neudeck line), it was incorporated into Donnersmarckhütten AG in 1873 and in 1926 with the “Oberhütten” company. The mine was operated as an independent colliery only in the years 1801, from 1805 to 1806 and from 1857 to 1876. It then became part of the Concordia and Michael mine .
Concordia and Michael
Although there is an initial presumption in the area of the future mine already on May 14, 1797 Concordia ( situation was), began because of the frequent changes of ownership due to heavy water inflows actually mining only among the family of the Counts of Donnersmarck on Neudeck 1848. On July 29, 1828 18 individual fields with a total area of 1.59 km² were consolidated and given to Carl Lazarus Henckel von Donnersmarck under the name Concordia. The mine began production in 1841 and was merged with the Michael field in 1851. In 1873 the mine became the property of Donnersmarckhütte, which already owned other ore and coal fields in the neighborhood. In 1897 u. a. also the fields "Borsig", "Johann August" and "Maria Anna" to the Concordia colliery .
In 1912, the mine, which was divided horizontally into two sections, had the following shafts: In the 1st section "Julie" (235 m; extraction; cable car; moving weather shaft), "Schmidt" (139 m; moving weather shaft; location ) as well as "Carl" and "Grenzschacht" for weather management. This department dismantled the saddle seams. The 2nd department with the "Concordia" conveyor shaft (585 m; extraction; cable ride; pulling in weather shaft) and another weather shaft (410 m) had already penetrated to the Andreas Seam in the depths and dismantled it. The extraction and processing was concentrated on the location of the three shafts "Carl", "Julie" and "Concordia" and was in the immediate vicinity of the Donnersmarckhütte. The production this year amounted to a little more than 1 million tons of hard coal.
When the Donnersmarckhütte was liquidated in 1927, the Concordia colliery also came into the possession of the successor company, Oberschlesische Eisenbedarfs AG (Oberbedarf). In 1933 the Castellegno-Abwehr union leased the colliery and bought it in 1938. (Production: 1873: 88,900 t; 1913: 952,301 t; 1938: 606,248 t)
Merger with Castellegno / Rokitnica
In 1958, it formed a network with Ludwigsglück under the name Ludwik-Concordia , and in 1970 it merged with Rokitnica . In 1975 all of the mines in the north of Zarbze were grouped under the name Pstrowski .
present
With the exception of a water tower, all of Concordia and Michael’s daytime facilities have been torn down, the scaffolding over the Tadeusz shaft, as well as the bucket and some daytime facilities have been preserved on the grounds of the Ludwigsglück colliery . The site is used by the mining supplier Demex. The shaft structure with the shaft hall above the west shaft ("Maciej" shaft; location ) in Zabrze-Machiejów was lovingly restored.
literature
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
- Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phoenix Publishing House. Katowice, Breslau, Berlin. 1913. Digitized version at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 before (last accessed on May 5, 2015)
- Z dziejów ulicy Hagera w Zabrzu. Stowarzyszenie Koplania Sztuki (Ed.). Zabrze, n.d. Information brochure in Polish and English about mines and smelting works near ul. Hagera in Zabrze.
Web links
- 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 made by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. Breslau ”published.
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