Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Porąbka-Klimontów

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The Porąbka-Klimontów mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Porąbka-Klimontów ) was a coal mine in Sosnowiec ( Porąbka and Klimontów districts ), Poland.

history

The history of this mine, which emerged as a composite mine in 1952 from several collieries and pits with different names, is quite confusing. The following subsections and the adjacent diagram attempt to trace the individual strands of development.

Mortimer

First, in the east of Sosnowiec, in Zagórze , in 1851 a mine named Ignatius was muted by Jack Siemieński. Only after the participation by Gustav von Kramsta the first was in 1865 bay of the same name sunk be. Since a fire broke out in the pit five years later, it was decided in 1880 to dig a second shaft, called Mortimer, in the immediate vicinity of Ignatius. This shaft reached a depth of 230 meters and was used for extraction , dewatering and ventilation . After a second fire in the mine in 1890, the plant was sold to the Sosnowiec mining and metallurgy company, financed by French capital. She also owned the Niwka , Klimontów and Milowice mines .

The new owners expanded the daytime facilities and administration buildings of the mine. Since it initially had no siding, the coal was transported to the Dąbrowa Górnicza station by cable car . After the mine (like many others) had been shut down in 1933, it was taken over by the Preussag company in 1942 and rebuilt in 1943 under the name Bismarck III. Mortimer shaft received a new engine room and a new water drainage system in order to be able to control the strong tributaries.

After the war, the mine got its old name back, was nationalized and became part of the Dąbrowski Coal Industry Union. In the same year it merged with Klimontów under the name Klimontów-Mortimer, but became independent again on January 1, 1951.

In the meantime there were always parts of Mortimer that operated more or less independently for a while:

  • Mortimer II from 1944 to July 1, 1963 (production 1956: 372,395 t)
  • Mortimer III from 1953 to January 1, 1968 (production 1957: 218,255 t)
  • Mortimer IV from May 1956 to 1959 (production 1959: 36,375 t)

In 1958, the colliery was integrated into the Porąbka-Klimontów composite mine as an independent mine.

Porąbka

In the period from 1951 to 1958, Porąbka was the name of the Jadwiga mine, which had been closed in the 1930s and was temporarily named Klimontów II and Bismarck I.

CHP Porąbka-Klimontów

Seven years after the end of World War II, i. H. In 1952, the mines in the east of Sosnowiec, namely Kazimierz-Juliusz, Mortimer, Klimontów, Modrzejów, Niwka (see Niwka-Modrzejów mine ), Count Renard and Dorota were reorganized during the Nazi occupation by Preussag . One measure was to sink the Ryszard shaft as a second shaft alongside the existing Jadwiga shaft, which originally belonged to the Mortimer colliery, and to give this mine the name Porąbka. In 1958 the Mortimer and Porąbka mines merged under the name Porąbka-Mortimer. The central shaft of the new composite mine was Ryszard with a depth of 592 m and a shaft disc diameter of 7.5 m.

Between 1948 and 1959, the Józef shaft was built at Braci Miroszewskich Street for material and mountain transport . From 1957 to 1958, the Jadwiga shaft was sunk deeper and a ski lift was installed . In 1961 the Francis ventilation shaft was closed.

On January 1, 1974, the Mortimer-Porąbka mine was merged with Klimontów under the name of Czerwone Zagłebie.

This composite mine, founded in 1974 from several old plants, had three departments:

  • Section I: Jadwiga with the Jadwiga, Ryszard and Południowy shafts; Degradation on the 550-m Sole
  • Department II: Józef; Dismantling on the 470 m level
  • Section III: Klimontów with the Mariusz, Jan and Piotr shafts; Dismantling on the 420 m and 500 m levels

Coal extraction took place in sections I and II through the Józef and Ryszard shafts (skip conveyance on two levels), while the cable car and material transport in section III through the Mariusz shaft for the 500 m level and for the 420 m level Shaft Jan.

In 1992, Czerwone Zagłębie was renamed Porąbka-Klimontów and on March 1, 1993, it was converted into a joint stock company. In the second half of the 1990s it was decided to shut down the mine, first that of Department III (1995), then that of II and finally that of I.

Czerwone Zagłebie

From 1974 to 1992 the Porąbka-Klimontów composite mine was named.

Funding figures

Mortimer 1900: 427,431 t; 1913: 208,161 tons

Klimontów 1970: 1.62 million t

Porąbka-Klimontów 1979: 4.22 million t

present

In the years 1965–1974 the construction site of the Mortimer colliery was closed and the daytime facilities were demolished. Today this area is used by the Expo-Silesia.

In 1993 the Władysław shaft was backfilled, the hoisting machine of which had been operated with steam until the end. Franciszek and Jan were demolished one year later, Mariusz and Piotr were backfilled in 1995, Jakub followed in 1996 and Józef in 1997. The two longest open shafts, Ryszard and South, no longer exist either.

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.
  • Leszek et al. CHP Porąbka-Klimontów (Ignacy, Mortimer, Czerwone Zagłębie) w Sosnowcu . Polish Internet forum at the URL address http://eksploratorzy.com.pl/viewtopic.php?t=910 (last accessed February 17, 2018), which contains a detailed historical description of the mine.