Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Matylda

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The Mathilde mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Matylda ) is a former coal mine in the Lipine (Polish Lipiny ) district of Świętochłowice (Schwientochlowitz O./S.), Poland.

history

In 1823 Joseph Porembski bought a coal field in Lipine and named it Matilde in honor of his wife. In 1875 the fields Franz, Merkur, Quintoforo, Paris, King Saul, Mathilde and Mathilde were consolidated and expanded to United Mathilde with a total size of 3.52 km². Before that, hard coal had been mined on the Quintoforo fields from 1828 to 1874 and on King Saul from 1825 to 1875.

Between 1855 and 1860 the consolidated mine was acquired by the Schlesische AG für Bergbau und Zinkhüttenbetrieb , whose main shareholder was Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck and who had already owned Quintoforo and King Saul. As it turned out early on that the mine field by running in a north-south direction jump from 90 m height disturbed was the reduction was carried out in two separate fields. Both had their own conveyor system with three shafts each.

In 1827 it was Ostfeld (Matylda-Wschód) on the road from Swietochlowice to Bytom (today ul. Bytomska) was put into operation in 1869, the previously low-housed there were wells up to a depth of 240 meters drilled . In 1912 the eastern part of the operation had 6 shafts: The production shafts I (244 m; S) and III (243 m; S) as well as II (245 m) for dewatering formed the central system, locomobile, north and wooden shaft as weather and material shafts ( Status 1912).

The exploitation of the western field (Matylda-Zachód) took place via the production shafts Kaiser Wilhelm (239 m), Josef / Józef (238) and Barbara (239 m) and began in the years 1860–1864. Later, the Georgsschacht in the northwest of the field was added as a delivery and flushing shaft and the roller shaft could be used as an incoming and an extending weather shaft.

In 1932, as a result of the economic downturn, the east construction site was closed and the mine drained. A swamp and a resumption of production only took place again in 1952/53.

Due to declining productivity, the merger with the Schlesiengrube under the name Śląsk-Matilda took place on January 1, 1967 , after the mine had leased the consolidated Silesia for many decades . Since then, extraction has taken place exclusively on the site of the Giodotto zinc smelter and during this period the mine had shafts I to III and a weather shaft to the east. After 160 years, the last ton of coal left the mine on February 12, 1977.

Funding figures

  • 1913: 830,124 tons
  • 1938: 400,579 tons
  • 1965: 536,582 tons

literature

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich. Katowice 1984.
  • 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.
  • Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phönix-Verlag, Kattowitz / Breslau / Berlin 1913, digitized version (accessed on May 5, 2015).

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