Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Nowa Przemsza

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The hard coal mine Neu-Przemsa (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Nowa Przemsza ) is a coal mine in the Brzezinka district of Mysłowice , Poland, which was closed in 1925 .

history

In the south of Mysłowice, numerous small mines have existed since 1800, which merged to form the Neu-Przemsa mine at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries under the direction of the Katowice AG for mining and ironworks . All lying on the three-country border between Prussia, Russia and Galicia (Austria-Hungary), initially their sales were limited to exports abroad via boats on the Przemsa.

Theodore

This mine, founded in 1800 and enlarged in 1808, has been extracting hard coal since 1801. In the meantime, it was repeatedly idle, but it was bought by Tiele-Winckler in 1891 and added to the Neu-Przemsa mine . As an independent mine, it produced a maximum of 14,500 t (1823).

Wandagrube

The mine with a field size of 0.88 km² in the south of Mysłowice initially had the two fields "Wanda" and "Przemsa". The "Leopoldine" seam was opened up via the two production shafts "Anton" and "Carl". The mine, which was founded on April 17, 1839, was closed in Neu-Przemsa in 1869 and was able to significantly improve its performance.

Josepha

The mine in Mysłowice-Kosztowy had the shafts "Anton" and "Victoria" and was muted on December 24, 1816 by Josephine Steinkeller from Krakow . Perhaps it initially dismantled the top tier of the Nicolai shifts and came to Kattowitzer AG in 1902. It then formed a joint venture with Neu-Przemsa .

Leopoldine

The mine in Mysłowice-Bręczkowice, which was awarded in 1805 and a Berechtsame had km² of 0.77, was founded by the Prussian mining ministry. Despite the resistance of the lordship of Kattowitz-Mysłowice, the state operated mining there from 1804 to 1888. But as early as 1838, shares in the company came to members of the Winckler family. Until the deposits were exhausted in 1888, mining took place via the “Klausa” shaft and the “Stanislaus” tunnel. In 1890 the mine was re-established and operated together with the “Equality” mine (0.50 km²; “Einigkeit” shaft; “Leopoldine” gallery). Later the mine belonged to the Kattowitzer AG für Bergbau und Eisenhüttenbetrieb (KAG) and formed a joint venture with Neu-Przemsa .

After the closure of Neu-Przemsa , Ignacy Szend from Brzezinka and the businessman S. Walczyk from Myslowice continued to mine coal from 1927 to 1931.

New Przemsa

The first mine fields such as “Przemsa” and “Wanda” in Mysłowice-Brzezinka were lent to Princess Luise Sulkowska as early as 1824 and initially operated from the Wandagrube ; on October 30, 1850 the field "New Przemsa" was added. All three, together with the “Weichsel” and “Glückhilf” mines, passed into the possession of the heirs of the Princess and Anton Klausas to Franz Hubert von Tiele-Winckler in 1861 , who in turn contributed it to the KAG.

Although the mine reached an authorized area of ​​7.9 km² through the consolidation mentioned in this article, the total production remained rather low and in the best of times only reached 60% of the Mysłowice mine to the north . Damian Recław cites two reasons for this - the poor equipment of the mine and the workers' willingness to strike.

Initially working as a tunnel mine, in 1890 an attempt was made to increase the efficiency of the mine by opening up deeper seams and brought two shafts, "Paul" and "Franziska", down to the Luisefloz. The mine was further strengthened by the addition of the older Wandagrube , which was already producing from three seams, "Przemsa", "Bertha" and "Luise".

Also Josepha with the field "equality" was part of the joint business of the mine.

In 1912, the colliery mined the seams “Przemsa” and “Luise” with a total thickness of 7 m without offset on three levels (60 m, 110 m, 200 m). Production shafts were "Paul" and "Franziska", both with a depth of 200 m. Extending weather shafts were “Carl” (164 m deep), “Glückauf” (175 m deep) and “Überbruch” (27 m).

In 1913 the company had 22 steam engines with a total output of 5,900 HP, 3 generators with a total output of 1,400 kW, 27 electric motors with a total output of 1,000 HP, employed 936 people (553 of them underground) and its annual production was 362,265 tons.

In 1922 the mine was on Polish territory, but still belonged to KAG, which now had its headquarters in Katowice. Although further modernizations were carried out and the workforce increased to 1,544 in 1923, annual production fell to 295,850 tons. When coal exports to the West collapsed as a result of the German-Polish Customs War in 1925, the mine was shut down on July 23, 1925.

Funding figures

  • Leopoldine 1873: 54,000 t; 1927: 8,011 tons
  • Josepha 1874: 32,500 tons; 1873: 32,500 tons
  • Wanda 1873: 87,919 tons
  • New Przermsa 1873: 73,500 t; 1913: 362,265 t; 1923: 295,850 tons

swell

  • Paul Deutsch: The Upper Silesian coal and steel industry before and after the division of the industrial area . Bonn 1926.
  • 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 February 2, 2018).
  • Damian Recław: Przemysł górnego Śląska na dawnej fotografii . Muzeum w Gliwicach 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook Oberbergamt 1912, p. 353.
  2. ↑ Jaros 1984, p. 103.
  3. ↑ Jaros 1984, p. 59.
  4. ↑ Jaros 1984, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Recław, Przemysł górnego Śląska, S. 206th
  6. ↑ Yearbook Oberbergamt, 1912, p. 353.
  7. ↑ Recław, p. 207.

Web links

  • At http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS there are 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian hard coal basin as JPG files showing field boundaries, seams and shafts as per the 1902 inventory. Published by "Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung, Breslau" (accessed on January 3, 2018)

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 19.3 ″  N , 19 ° 9 ′ 28.5 ″  E