Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Mikulczyce
The hard coal mine Mikulczyce (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Mikulczyce ; old German name Abwehrgrube ) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in Zabrze (Hindenburg OS), Poland.
history
Donnersmarckhütte pit
The consolidation of the fields "Saargemünd", "Deutsch-Lorraine", "Neue Abwehr", "Zabrze" and "Jungfrau Metz", all of which had been awarded at the time of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, were given a total size of 10 , 89 km² consolidated on August 22, 1906 under the name Donnersmarckhütte-Grube. The owner was "Donnersmarckhütte AG". For a long time this very large field was developed by two mines, the defense pit (4.09 km²) and the Concordia and Michael colliery .
Defensive pit
The sinking of the "Adolf" (later Jan) shaft near Mikulczyce had already begun in 1901, but the water inflow during the sinking process was so strong that it could not go into operation until 1907. For this reason, the second shaft "Elisabeth" (later Bolesław ) was sunk from 1906 to a depth of 499 m, partly using the freezing method, and partly broken up from the 470 m level. From the initial (1905) 8,836 t, production increased to 849,590 t by 1912.
In 1926, the "United Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke Aktiengesellschaft" was founded, resulting in a large merger of the mining and smelting works operating in western Upper Silesia. This Oberhütten AG was the amalgamation of the German-Upper Silesian works of Linke-Hofmann-Lachhammer AG, Berlin (formerly Oberschlesische Eisenindustrie AG, Gleiwitz; Obereisen), the Oberschlesischen Eisenbahn -bedarfs-AG, Gleiwitz (Oberbedarf) and the Donnersmarckhütte A.-G . The Henckel zu Donnersmarck family brought the new "Castellegno Defense Union" into this AG with a third of all Kuxe of the two mines. This union gradually became the majority shareholder in Oberhütten.
In 1937 the mine had only two shafts that were also used for extraction, namely Elisabeth 575 m (double extraction, cableway and moving weather shaft) and Adolf 380 m (cableway; extending).
CHP Mikulczyce
In 1945 the defensive pit was named Mikulczyce, and in 1960 it was merged with Rokitnica. On January 1, 1970, the mine was shut down.
present
Today there are only a few administrative buildings that are used as production and storage facilities. The salary hall has now been extensively restored and is used as a production facility by an organ building company.
Funding figures
- 1913: 944,823 tons
- 1932: 859,004 tons
- 1938: 1.35 million t
- 1965 (with Rokitnica): 1.99 million tons
swell
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Śląski Instytut Naukowy, Katowice 1984, ISBN 83-00-00648-6 .
- 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).
- 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.
- Prussian Mining Authority in Breslau (ed.): The Silesian Mines 1938 . Publishing house NS-Druckerei, Breslau.
- Albert Gieseler: power and steam engines . Article "United Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke Aktiengesellschaft". Publication on the Internet at http://www.albert-gieseler.de/dampf_de/firmen8/firmadet82717.shtml (accessed on December 23, 2015).
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)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on the United Oberschlesische Hüttenwerke AG in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 29.4 ″ N , 18 ° 47 ′ 25.5 ″ E