Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Powstańców Śląskich

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The Powstańców Śląskich coal mine (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Powstańców Śląskich ) is a disused coal mine in Bytom , Poland.

history

The mine in the north of Bytom / Bytom, which was created on January 1, 1975 and closed on January 1, 2001, consisted for a long time of the two independently operating mines Bytom and Radzionków , which in turn became a unit under the name Radzionkau-Grube until the division of Upper Silesia in 1922 had formed. Before his name change to Powstańców Śląskich in honor of the Silesian insurgents who were working heavily on an assumption of Upper Silesia to Poland after World War II, it was labeled Bytom I .

Radzionkau mine

The Radzionkau mine, which belonged to the Beuthen-Siemianowitz branch of the Henckel von Donnersmarck family, began coal mining south of Radzionków in 1874 by sinking two shafts on the Oder-Ufer railway line near Buchatz ( Lage ). Numerous seams of the Saddle Seam Group, the Ruda Group and the Nicolaier layers with a total thickness of 45 m were opened up by the shafts "Countess Laura" and "Graf Hugo". In 1897 more fields were added, so that the authorized area increased to 31.25 km². In this context, the mine was named consolidated Radzionkau and was part of the Henckel von Donnersmarck-Beuthen Ltd company in London.

Kopernik shaft of the Beuthengrube

The field is severely disturbed by several cracks and many seams are on steep slopes. Therefore, in 1901 a retracting weather shaft was sunk 2 km to the west in the "Aschenborn" field, and in 1910 a material shaft was added at Scharley station. Up until 1912, mountains were only moved in a 12.4 m thick lying seam.

Beuthengrube

When Upper Silesia was divided up in 1922, the mine’s two production shafts were on the Polish side, but the aforementioned weather shaft was on the German side. Therefore, the German side decided to make this shaft the basis of an independent mine ( location ). The construction of this new, modern shaft system took place in the years 1923 to 1928; the associated mine was named Beuthengrube and started mining in 1928. The "Glückauf-Schacht" was the production shaft with double production and a depth of 300 m.

CHP Bytom

After the Second World War, the name of the until then German Westfeld was changed to Bytom , the “Glückauf” shaft was named “Kopernik” and was also used for cable travel and material transport. The promotion by Skip took place from 1952 through Shaft "Skipowy" the Wetterschacht II was named "Jan".

CHP Radzionków

During the Second World War, the Radzionków mine gave up part of its rights to the east so that the new Julian mine could be built there from 1944 . Julian himself became the core of the Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Piekary mine .

Radzionków itself had the following shafts after the Second World War: "Wit Stwosz" (Countess Laura) with a depth of 448.5 m (1954) and two skips with a capacity of 8.5 t each, "Karol" (Count Hugo), the 1967/68 was expanded to the central shaft with 659.2 m and contained two 10 t skips as well as "Piotr" with 646 m depth for the cable car and the material transport. There were also four weather shafts.

Remnants of the processing of the Beuthengrube

The mine had six levels at 180, 220, 300, 400, 440 and 630 meters.

CHP Powstańców Śląskich

In 1975 the Bytom and Radzionków mines, which operated independently from 1922 to 1975, merged. In the last years of operation it was named Powstańców Śląskich .

In the time after the merger, the 930 m level was driven as a uniform level; this enabled 22 seams of the saddle seam group and the Ruda group to be opened up.

On December 31, 1996, the production at the Radzionków plant was stopped and the coal was lifted exclusively on Bytom .

The entire mine was shut down on January 1, 2001 and the Radzionkow mine and the scaffolding over the “Skipowy” shaft and the sorting system of the Bytom mine were demolished in the following year. The “Kopernikus” shaft was kept open for the central dewatering.

Podsadzkowy weather shaft of the Radzionków CHP

present

In 2011 the company "Ecoplus Sp. Z oo" started production again with the conveyance on the 650 m level and currently employs around 200 people. The exploitation of the approximately 70 hectare mining field was originally limited to 2015, but was extended on April 28, 2015 to the year 2043. In addition to the “Kopernik” shaft, the “Podsadzkowy” weather shaft is part of the current system. It mines 11,000 t of coal a month and offers 250 people jobs.

Funding figures

  • Bytom 1938: 1.14 million t; 1970: 2.26 million t
  • Radzionków 1913: 843,582 t; 1938: 594,741 t; 1979 1.54 million t
  • Powstańców Śląskich 1979: 5.64 million t

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://eksploratorzy.com.pl/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=14555 (accessed on February 2, 2016)
  2. ↑ see http://ekoplus-kopalnia.pl/ (accessed on February 2, 2016)

swell

  • Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . 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.

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