Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Makoszowy
The Makoszowy mine (Makoschau) (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Makoszowy ; former German name Delbrückschächte ) is a decommissioned coal mine in Zabrze (Hindenburg OS), Poland.
The mine has belonged to Spółka Restructureyzacji Kopalń since May 1, 2015 and, as expected, was closed on December 30, 2016, despite great resistance from the workforce. In 2015, it still employed 1966 people and mined coal on the 660 m and 850 m levels.
history
In the years from 1900 to 1906 Delbrück I / II was initially built as a further double shaft system of the Prussian "Mine Inspection 3" (Bielschowitz) in order to mine the coal from several sub-fields of the huge state field property from this system and to lift it to the surface. Shaft I initially had a depth of 407 m, shaft II a depth of 412 m. While the neighboring Rheinbaben shafts, which are also owned by the tax authorities, only extracted non-coking coal at the beginning of the 20th century, seams with coking coal were excavated on Delbrück from the start .
Considerable problems arose for the mine as a result of the division of Upper Silesia in 1922. “While the border in the former voting area was at least approximately determined in autumn 1921, the decision on whether the Delbrück mine would belong to the state was not made until mid-1923. In the end, the work remained due to the judgment of the special border commission on the German side. [...] The main entrance gate [of the colliery] was used as a border crossing until 1939. "
In 1926, the mine was taken over by Preussag as an independent colliery (like the Queen Luise plant, also located in western Upper Silesia ) .
In 1938, the two shafts I and II had reached depths of 660 m (I: double delivery, cable car, retracting weather shaft) and 530 m (II: cable car; retracting and retracting weather shaft by weather separator) and brought 1.785 million tons of coal to the surface . Other shafts were a weather shaft 107 m (extending), the "railway shaft" 314 m (cable car; moving in) and Guido 167 m (extending).
After the Second World War the mine was continued under the name Makoszowy and from that year until 1957 it belonged to the Gliwice Union for the Coal Industry, from 1957 to 2003 to the Union for the Zabrze Coal Industry.
The biggest mining accident occurred on August 28, 1958, when 72 miners were killed in a mine fire.
Between March 1976 and September 1978 a new multifunctional shaft IV was sunk at 944 meters and equipped with a concrete headframe. Between 1982 and 1985 the “North” ventilation shaft was added to the northwest of the main shaft system. Later, the scaffolding above shaft II was demolished and the double feed from shaft I was removed. The “Leśny” weather shaft was also closed and filled.
When it was closed, the mine had the following shafts:
- Shaft I: Rope ride
- Shaft III: double-headed conveyor frame for material transport (conveyance?)
- Shaft IV: concrete tower with ski lift
- "Północny" weather shaft
The colliery employed around 3,600 people in 2012 and mined the coal on the floors at 660 m and 850 m depths. In 1988 the plant achieved the highest output in its history of more than 5,127,000 tons.
From 2003 to 2015 it was operated by Kompania Węglowa SA in Katowice. On July 1, 2005, the merger with Sośnica took place to form the Sośnica-Makoszowy composite mine , and in 2015 the association was reversed.
Funding figures
- 1938: 1.81 million t
- 1970: 2.55 million t
- 1979: 4.35 million t
- 1988: 5.13 million t
swell
- 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 at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 (last accessed on May 5, 2015).
- Prussian Mining Authority in Breslau (ed.): The Silesian Mines 1938 . Publishing house NS-Druckerei, Breslau.
- Zygfryd Piątek: Coal mining in Poland in the interwar period 1918 to 1939 . In: The cut . 52nd volume, issue 1/2000.
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)
Individual evidence
- ↑ see on this and a historical description of mining in Zabrze https://silesion.pl/ostatnie-pozegnanie-kopalni-makoszowy (accessed on March 27, 2017)
- ^ Dawid Smolorz: Border Crossers. Told times, people. Places . Published by the House of German-Polish Cooperation. Gliwice 2008.
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 23.2 " N , 18 ° 46 ′ 34.7" E