Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Niwka-Modrzejów

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Developments and mergers of the Niwka-Modrzejów mine (left side)

The mine Niwka-Modrzejów ( Pol . Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Niwka-Modrzejów ) was a coal mine in Sosnowiec in Poland . All daytime facilities at the various production sites have now been torn down.

history

Like many other mines in the east of Sosnowiec, this composite mine also has a checkered history. It is composed of different origins, the parts of which have often had changing names.

Niwka

In 1833, the trades Maurycy Kossowski, Jacek Lipski and Antoni Klimkiewicz founded a mine under the name "Jerzy" ( location ) in Sosnowiec-Niwka and in 1928 it was renamed Niwka. After the Polish State Bank took over the company in 1836, it came under the administration of the financial authorities in 1843 and was shut down in 1844. The industrialist Gustav von Kramsta bought it in 1864 and put the mine back into operation in 1867. It was sold in 1891 by his heirs to the Société Anonyme des Charbonages, Mines et Usines de Sosnowiec, founded in 1890, which also owned the Ignatius / Mortimer, Victor / Milowice and Klimontów collieries (separated from Niwka in 1908 through field division). In 1910 Niwka had 1,900 employees.

In the 1930s, the mine had a central shaft system with the Orjon / Józef, Oskar / Jerzy / Bolesław and Rudolf shafts as well as a secondary system with the Henryk / Bobrek shaft.

After the mine had already been managed under the administration of Preussag together with Modrzejów during the Nazi era, the merger to Niwka-Modrzejów took place after the end of the war.

Barbara

Both the sheet Birkental of the TOP 25,000 from 1931 and statistical data from the years 1901–1904 show a Barbara mine south of Klimontów as part of Niwka.

Modrzejów

The main system of this colliery in Sosnowiec- Modrzejów ( Lage ) consisted of the Kazimierz I / II shafts, while a secondary system had the Staszic shaft. Operated by Preussag during the Second World War , the colliery merged with Niwka to form Niwka-Modrzejów after the war.

Theodor Körner

During the Second World War, Preussag operated the independent mines Niwka and Modrzejów under the common name Theodor Körner.

CHP Niwka-Modrzejów

Immediately after the end of the war, both mines were consolidated under the name Niwka-Modrzejów, but continued to work as separate plants. They were completely modernized and received new daytime and track systems. Several shafts (Kazimierz I on the Modrzejów facility and George on the Niwka facility) were sunk deeper or re-sunk and at the end of the 1980s a new bottom was excavated at a depth of 910 meters.

Despite these improvements on the production side, operating results deteriorated dramatically. The incorporation of the mine into Katowicki Holding Węglowy in 1993 and several restructuring measures in 1993 and 1996 delayed, but not prevented, the collapse of the mine. When there was an accident in February 1998 in which 65 miners were killed, it was decided to shut it down. In view of an operational reserve of 22.8 million tons of hard coal, of which 6.3 million had already been tapped, violent protests broke out among the workforce, which at that time still comprised 2,410 employees. Nevertheless, on May 26, 1999, an agreement was reached with the trade unions to shut down the facility.

Funding figures

  • 1900: 673,177 tons
  • 1913: 427,696 tons
  • 1938: 323,285 tons
  • 1970: 1.78 million t
  • 1979: 2.30 million t

swell

  • 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.

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