Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Szombierki

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Remains of the Hohenzollern / Szombierki mine (summer 2013)

The Szombierki mine (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Szombierki , German Hohenzollern mine ) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in Bytom , Poland.

Preliminary remark

The colliery was founded in 1870 as an independent mine by Johanna von Schaffgotsch and for a long time it was part of the Consolidated Paulus-Hohenzollern-Grube , a mine that comprised almost all of the shafts owned by the Graeflich Schaffgotsch works until the division of Upper Silesia in 1922 . In addition to Hohenzollern / Szombierki, it also consisted of Gotthard / Karol , Orzegów , Paulus / Paweł and Countess Johanna / Bobrek . After the division, the mines in western Upper Silesia were combined to form the "newly consolidated Paulus-Hohenzollern", while the eastern mines that came to Poland were administered by Godula SA, based in Ruda-Chebzie.

history

Hohenzollern pit

The mine, located directly to the east of the Schaffgotsch manor Schomberg-Orzegow, was founded between 1870 and 1873 as part of the coal mine holdings originally collected by Karl Godulla and comprised the "Kaiser Wilhelm" shafts (550 m; double funding , cable car , extending weather shaft; later called "Krystyna") and "Hohenzollern" (250 m; cable ride, extending; later called "Eva").

The first coal from the mining field of 4.29 km² was extracted on September 5, 1873 from the seam 419 via the "Kaiser Wilhelm" shaft.

The following shafts were added later:

  • "Kaiser Friedrich" (250 m; cable ride and extending weather shaft; later Teresa) on the site of the central system, built in the years 1888–1890;
  • "Gemander" (250 m; cable ride and extending weather shaft; later Janina) on the south side of the road to Bobrek, built 1892–1894;
  • "Sommerschacht" (370 m; moving in; later "Hedwig") on the border with the district of Godulla, built in 1908.
  • "Georg" (moving in), presumably liquidated before 1922.

The daytime facilities underwent a fundamental restructuring between 1929 and 1933, when a hammerhead tower with a height of 56 m was built over the “Kaiser Wilhelm” shaft and all the coal was lifted there. The two hoisting machines in the head of the tower had outputs of 2,700 and 2,400 hp respectively. Through this measure, this plant alone was able to achieve a production of 2.056 million t in 1937.

Right from the start, Hohenzollern was one of the most modernly equipped mines in Upper Silesia. This was true both with regard to mechanical coal extraction and its transport as well as the electrification of the plant. It was lit by incandescent lamps as early as 1882, and in the following year coal was transported underground by locomotives. In 1900 the annual coal production reached almost 750,000 tons with a workforce of less than one and a half thousand.

From 1945 the mine was named Szombierki .

CHP Szombierki

Soon after the end of the war, the mine often formed operational communities with other plants. In 1970 it was merged with Gotthard / Karol and on September 1, 1993, the administration of Bobrek and Szombierki were combined.

Thereafter, the production on Szombierki was gradually reduced and ended in 1997. From 2003, the coal mined in this construction site was unearthed on Bobrek . The mine was finally shut down in 2004 and all daytime facilities with the exception of the hammerhead winding tower above Krystyna and the scaffolding above Eva were demolished.

Funding figures

1874: 104,148 t; 1912 (Paulus-Hohenzollern): 2.49 million tons; 1938: 2.23 million t; 1970: 2.52 million t; 1979: 2.07 million t

present

At the moment (spring 2014) the site is deserted and empty with the exception of the two shafts mentioned and their conveying facilities. There does not seem to be any concrete follow-up uses.

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Web links

  • At the Internet address http://igrek.amzp.pl/mapindex.php?cat=FLOTZKARTOS (last accessed July 14, 2015) you can find 43 flötz maps (sic) of the Upper Silesian coal basin as JPG files showing the field boundaries, seams and shafts show the stock from 1902 in excellent quality. These cards were made by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung. Breslau ”published.