Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Sośnica
The Sośnica mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Sośnica ; formerly Oehringen mine) is an active hard coal mine in the Sośnica district of Gliwice , Poland.
history
Oehringen pit
In the second half of the 19th century , Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen acquired permission to drill the first coal-boreholes in Gleiwitz-Sosnitza (also called Oehringen and Sośnica) . In March 1860 he owned around 20 coal fields (including Eustachius 1857; Bronislaw 1859; Carl Oswald 1859; Oehringen 1860) in the western part of Sosnitza (2.19 km²). At that time, the coal reserves were estimated at around 500 million t. The first shaft works in Ellguth (today Ligota Zabrska) in 1913 were interrupted after considerable difficulties, which is why the construction of two new shafts (named I and II) began in the Ostfeld (east of Sośnica and south of ul.Sikorskiego). The first coal was unearthed on October 16, 1917,
As a result of the division of Upper Silesia in 1922, the mine was named Consolidierte Oehringengrube and was managed by Oehringer Bergbau-AG in Gleiwitz. All parts of the Hohenlohe-Oehring property that remained with Germany belonged to it.
By the year 1938, the authorized person had grown to 17.44 km² and the mine had the two production shafts I 385 m (double conveyance, cableway and moving weather shaft) and II 550 m (cableway; extending) as well as the shaft "Christian-Kraft" 450 m (extending weather shaft). At that time the mine was producing 1.375 million t of coal with 2,373 employees.
From November 1939 it was compulsorily subordinated to the Reichswerke Hermann Göring (1st group of the mining administration Upper Silesia of the HGW, together with Knurów and the Prussian mine ). English and Russian prisoners of war as well as forced laborers from the Bielsko-Biała area and the Ukraine kept the extraction going during the war.
In 1945 the mine was renamed Sośnica.
CHP Sośnica
From 1945 to 1957 the mine, now known as KWK Sośnica, belonged to the Gliwice department of the Union for the Coal Industry, from 1957 to the Zabrze department.
In 1996 the eastern field was closed, the shafts there backfilled and all daytime facilities were demolished.
Sośnica-Makoszowy CHP
On July 1, 2005, the Sośnica plant was merged with the Makoszowy colliery to form the Sośnica-Makoszowy combined mine , a connection that was dissolved again in April 2015. In the meantime Makoszowy became part of Spółka Restructureyzacji Kopalń SA , while Sósnica was taken over into the new group Polska Grupa Górnicza on May 1, 2016 . The reason for splitting up and selling the Makoszowy cogeneration plant was that the composite mine lost 195 zł per ton of coal in the first half of 2014.
Funding figures
- 1938: 1.46 million tons
- 1970: 2.39 million t
- 1979: 4.81 million t
present
Today (as of 2015) the mine still employs more than 3,600 people and extracts the coal in both the west and south fields (Bojków) on the 750 m and 950 m levels. The conveying capacity is around 12,000 tons per day.
The rightful has a size of 32.4 km² and lies below the villages of Gierałtowice, Gliwice and Zabrze.
The coal from the (now centrally located) western field is lifted to the surface using skips from shaft IV, while the cable car and material transport take place via shaft III. Shaft VII, which has a distinctive double block, has since dropped its ropes and is now used as a retracting weather shaft.
The coal mined in the southern field is transported underground to Annex III / IV / VII. The two shafts located in Bojków (including shaft VI with a double jack) are used for cable travel and material transport.
Between the west and south fields in Przyszowice there is the extending ventilation shaft V, which is of central importance for the ventilation of the entire mine.
literature
- 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 May 5, 2015).
- Prussian Mining Authority in Breslau (ed.): The Silesian Mines 1938. Publishing house NS printing, Breslau.
- 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.
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)
- The new owner, PGG, publishes current data on the mine on the Polish-language website http://pgg.pl/o-firmie/oddzialy/son (accessed on June 4, 2016).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tabular overview of the losses at the mines in the first half of 2014 , accessed on October 20, 2015.
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 28 " N , 18 ° 42 ′ 55" E