Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Victoria

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Consolidations from Glückhilf-Friedenshilfe / Victoria

The hard coal mine Victoria (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Victoria ; German Glückhilf-Friedenshoffnung ) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in Sobięcin (until 1945 Hermsdorf ), a district of Wałbrzych , ( Waldenburg ), Poland.

history

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Malakow Tower over Wrangel / Wojciech shaft

For a long time, two trade unions existed side by side in Hermsdorf , which in turn consisted of numerous coal fields and pits - the Glückhilf- and the Friedenshoff- pits. The lucky auxiliary pit was on May 22, 1770 awarded and consisted of several consolidations in 1869 from fields luck Help-Friederike , sister , best , Christoph , friendship and Stuckhardt . This gave them an entitlement of 3.51 km².

When it was combined with the Peace Hope Mine in 1892, Julius (awarded in 1822), Henriette (1855), Marie (1856) and Friedenshoffnung civil engineering were added to the outside of the above-mentioned pits and fields . The mine thus reached a total size of 8.08 km². In 1912 it had three operating departments:

  1. In the Glückhilf mine field, production took place in the Wrangelschacht (410 m depth ). It was not only used for extraction , but also for cable travel and as a retracting weather shaft . Other weather shafts were the Sprotte (356 m) and Hedwig shaft (215 m). 13 seams were built with a total thickness of 15.1 m. The coal extracted was not processed on site, but on the von der Heydt plant.
  2. The von der Heydt plant ( Lage ) had a total of three production shafts , a shaft of the same name, Victoria shaft (both 317 m deep) and Glückauf (177 m). In this field, 11 seams with a total thickness of 13.9 m were mined. In addition to funding, Glückauf also served as a rope ride. The extending weather shaft was Charlotte with a depth of 188 m.
  3. The third section was formed by the sister shafts I / II ( location ) (I: 437 m; II: 387 m) together with the Guibal shaft (384 m). The Erbstollen shaft was later named Irena and also became a weather shaft.
Malakow Tower on the sister shafts

From 1920, most were Kuxe the Trade Schacht United luck Help Peace Hope bought by the Upper Silesian iron industry AG in Gliwice / Gliwice and in 1928 ownership of the Lower Silesian Mining AG (NIBAG). It also owned the Fuchsgrube and most of the hard coal mines that had previously been owned by C. Kulmiz GmbH. This concentration process was continued in the following years when the Gustav and Carl-Georg-Victor mines owned by the Schlesische Kohlen- und Cokes-Werke AG and the independent Abendroth mine were combined with Glückhilf-Friedenshoffnung .

On July 29, 1929, a severe firedamp explosion occurred on the site of the sister shafts. 23 miners died immediately, 10 more soon succumbed to serious burn injuries. Only two of the 35 people working in this area survived the accident. The trigger was a miner's lamp with a porous outer screen grille.

In 1945, after the mines were taken over by Poland, all shafts and mines were renamed under the direction of the DśZPW (Lower Silesian Coal Industry Association). The sister shafts became Siostrzane , Guibal became Grarek , Wrangel became Wojciech and the mine itself was called Victoria . In 1960 the "sister shafts / Siostrzane" were dropped.

The last major investment in Wałbrzych's hard coal mine was to sink a central shaft called Kopernik for the three mines Victoria (−200 m level), Thorez (−350 m level) and Wałbrzych (−400 m level) on the Victoria site, which should enable the concentration of ten production shafts on one production shaft. Work began in 1984 and in 1988 a depth of 1,100 meters was reached. This means that PLN 7.6 billion and 80% of the planned total was built. Although a modern winding tower similar to that for several copper mines in the Lubin area had already been built, it was not used as a mining shaft and was only used as a weather shaft for Victoria and Wałbrzych .

Irina weather shaft

After the fall of communism in Poland in 1989 and the introduction of the free market economy , the mines in the Waldenburg district could no longer be operated profitably. Victoria was the first large mine to be closed in 1993 , the others followed in 1994 ( Wałbrzych ) and 1996 ( Thorez / Julia ).

Combined Gustavgrube / Witold

The Gustavgrube ( Lage ) was a 6.79 km² coal mine in Rothenbach (today Boguszów-Gorce ) and was founded on August 3, 1791 from the Allianz mine and the Freudiger Wink mine . Both mines initially belonged to the majority of the Lords von Dyherrn - Czettritz , before they were later acquired by the industrialist Gustav von Kramsta (1815–1869) . In 1872 they were transferred to Schlesische Kohlen- und Cokeswerke AG via Schlesische Kohlenwerke AG. The mine, which markedscheid to the north with the Abendröthe pit and to the west with Carl-Georg-Victor , opened up a total of 20 viable seams with a thickness of 20.4 m in 1912 . The Gustav-pit in 1912 by the Pauline-pit with the conveyor and Seilfahrt shaft Pauline (325 m depth) and the water entertainment - and Wetterschacht Georg tapped (22 m). There was also a weather shaft called Elise (140 m). In 1911 the construction of the Wilhelm shaft began. To the east of the Pauline shaft there was a coking plant with three batteries, each with 33 heat recovery ovens. In the years 1931 to 1943 the mine was idle and the pit sank . It was not until 1943 that the mine workings were swamped again and production resumed. Until it was closed in 1993, the plant was part of the Glückhilf-Friedenshoffnung / Victoria mine and has been called Withold ever since .

Machine hall and headframe Pauline / Withold shaft

Consol. Carl-Georg-Victor / Barbara

The mine was established on June 9, 1864 through the consolidation of the fields Carl-Georg-Victor , Glückauf and Schlußfeld in Fellhammer (since 1945 Kuźnice Świdnickie , district of Boguszów-Gorce ) and had an area of ​​6.54 km². It was opened up by two conveyor systems, the Egmont and Mayraus shafts . The Egmont ( Lage ) facility to the west had the delivery and cable car shaft (1912: 218 m depth) and the western shaft used for ventilation . In the eastern Mayrau shaft field there were two production shafts, Mayrau ( location ) (1912: 224 m depth) for the III. Sole and the Berthaschacht (425 m) for the II., III. and IV. sole. There were three weather shafts there, next to Bertha (moving in) , the Pott (moving in) and the east shaft (moving out). In 1912 the mine cut 22 seams with a total thickness of 28 m.

In 1880 the Schlesische Kohlen- und Cokeswerke AG took over the fields and mines from the liquidation assets of the Schlesische Kohlenwerke AG. In 1928 it became the property of the Lower Silesian Mining AG (NIBAG) together with the Jenny and violence colliery , which also owned the Glückhilf-Friedenshoffnung colliery east of the Markscheid . Idle from 1928 to 1938, it was then re -funded as part of Glückhilf-Friedenshoff Hope . As part of Victoria , the mine was named Barbara in 1945 .

Evening red / Clare

In Rothenbach, west of Waldenburg (today the Gorce district of Boguszów-Gorce), the Abendröthe mine ( Lage ) was consolidated in 1860 with the coal fields Neue Richter , Gute Hoffnung , Help us again , Paul and Peter and Friedrich . Many of the fields mentioned had already been awarded around 1790. The entire mine field had a size of 3.22 km². The main owners of the Abendröthe union were Prince von Pless and the entrepreneur Egmont Tielsch .

While initially the coal was brought in through tunnels and drainage was also carried out through them, the Clara shaft was sunk in 1873 , from which the floors at 106 m and at 216 m were opened. At the same time there was the hollow shaft (248 m), which Clara penetrated . In 1927 the mine was shut down and the Glückhilf-Friedenshoff Hope mine closed . From 1945 it was named Klara under Polish management .

present

Today there is still a coking plant of the same name on the Victoria grounds , which is operated by JSW . The Malakow tower above the Wrangel shaft has been extensively restored, but is not accessible. On the site of the Withold mine , the headframe above the old Pauline mine and some colliery buildings were renovated and converted into a museum and congress center. Irena weather shaft is in a desolate condition, the Malakow tower above Siostrzane has been preserved, but without a roof and its substance is endangered. The remaining buildings on the premises of the sister shafts are used for other purposes.

Funding figures

Glückhilf / Peace Hope 1912: 1.06 million tons; 1937: 1.13 million t; 1970: 649,602 t; 1979: 761,800 t

Abendröthe / Klara 1840: 8,000 t; 1858: 31,000 t; 1912: 257,858 tons

Carl-Georg-Victor / Barbara 1858: 2,400 t; 1912: 395,745 tons

Gustavgrube / Withold 1840: 9000 t; 1858: 8,400 t; 1912: 240,116 tons.

Remarks

  1. ↑ For the following information, see the Oberbergamt yearbook, p. 281 ff.
  2. ^ Report in the Magdeburger Volksstimme from July 31, 1929 http://library.fes.de/magdeburg/pdf/1929/1929-176.pdf (accessed on March 4, 2017)
  3. ↑ see also http://dolny-slask.org.pl/503441,80_rocznica_katastrofy_na_kopalni_Szyby_Siostrzane_Schwesterschachte_w_Sobiecinie.html (accessed March 7, 2017)
  4. ↑ see http://walbrzych.naszemiasto.pl/archiwum/biedaszyby-zamiast-kopernika,700772,art,t,id,tm.html?sesja_gratka=a5960b646c1c2bface9f378049b429aa (accessed on March 4, 2017)
  5. ↑ Jerzy Kosmaty. History, p. 322 f.
  6. ↑ Yearbook Oberbergamt, p. 492.
  7. ↑ see Yearbook Oberbergamt , p. 488.

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