Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Walenty-Wawel

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The Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Walenty-Wawel (German: Wolfgang-Wawel) mine is a decommissioned hard coal mine in Ruda Śląska , Poland, which belonged to the Ballestrem Group.

history

For the beginnings of the mining activities of the Ballestrem family in Ruda, see Grube Brandenburg .

Scaffolding over the Mikołaj shaft

Wolfgang / Walenty

A mine named Wolfgang was founded in Ruda Śląska in 1841 and in 1890 together with the fields "Ruda", "Carl Ludwig", "Carl Emanuel", "Julius", "Goldene Sonne", "Cicero" and "Christoph" under the name Wolfgang ( Location ) consolidated; originally it was entitled to 4.63 km². It got its name from Carl Wolfgang von Ballestrem . The colliery was connected to the Brandenburg mine to the south , mined the same seams as this and also largely belonged to the Ballestrem family (from 1855 to 1857, 48.8 kuxes belonged to Gustav Heinrich von Ruffer from Breslau) and the Minerva union, which later in the company Oberbedarf rose. The coal fields "Catharina" (1857), "Maximiliane" (closed for a long time), "Oscar" and "Hyppolith" were added.

The mine was divided into two departments until 1912:

  • In 1912, the “Valentin” shaft (365 m) in the Valentin shaft was used for extraction and dewatering and the “Elisabeth” shaft (268 m) for cable travel and ventilation.
  • The Clara pit was opened up by the “Clara” (334 m; extraction) and “Jakob” (298 m; ventilation) pits. At the same time, shaft III of the Brandenburg pit was also used as a further weather shaft.
Administration building on the Walenty site

It did not move mountains .

In 1912 the rights of ownership were divided into two independent mines, namely Wolfgang with 2.32 km² and Count Franz with 2.34 km².

In 1928 all of the mines mentioned were first sold to the Peace Hut / Huta Pokój (Zakłady Huta i Kopalnia Pokój; 75% Ballestrem stake) and in 1931 to the Rudzkie Gwarectwo Węglowe (Ruda Coal Union). In this context, the name of Wolfgang was renamed Walenty and the merger of the Brandenburg , Wolfgang and Count Franz mines was given the name Walenty-Wawel .

Count Franz / Hrabia Franciszek

On March 15, 1912, the southern part of the field with a size of 2.34 km² was separated from the consolidated Wolfgang and for almost 20 years formed an independently managed mine ( location ) owned by the Ballestrem family (73.6 Kuxe) and the von Rufferschen heirs ( 48.4 Kuxe). The name was given in honor of Franz von Ballestrem . For this division, the "Nikolausschacht" was sunk in 1911 and provided with daytime facilities. In 1928 Oberbedarf (majority shareholder Ballestrem) bought the mine, and in 1929 it was reunified with Brandenburg / Wawel and Wolfgang zu Wolfgang-Wawel .

Wolfgang-Wawel / KWK Walenty-Wawel

The two pits, Grube Brandenburg ( Lage ) and Wolfgang in Ruda, together with Count Franz in 1931, formed the core of the Wolfgang-Wawel mine , which from 1922 included all the possessions of Count Ballestrem in East Upper Silesia and changed its name to Walenty-Wawel in 1931.

From 1945 the Walenty-Wawel mine was divided into two separate production areas, the northern Franciszek field and the two southern fields of Elżbieta (Elisabethschacht) and Mikołaj (Nikolausschacht) east and west of ul. 1 Maja (connection from Wirek to Ruda). There was a distance of around 2.5 km between the two areas.

Scaffolding over the Clara shaft

1953–1956 a central shaft was sunk on the southern plant and in 1971 the breakthrough with the Paulus / Paweł pit was realized in the north field . This enabled the two mines Walenty-Wawel and Paulus / Paweł to (re) merge under the name Wawel . But already after 22 years, due to tectonic disturbances and the exhaustion of minable seams in 1995, the decision was made not to lift any more coal to the surface on Walenty-Wawel, but to largely demolish the daily facilities and to add the economically profitable mining points to the Pokój mine .

Funding figures

  • Brandenburg mine 1873: 112,381 t; 1913 924,369 tons
  • Wolfgang / Walenty 1873: 180,633 tons
  • Count Franz / Hrabia Franciszek 1913: 92,984 tons
  • Walenty-Wawel 1938: 1.68 million t; 1970: 1.95 million t
  • Wawel (new) 1979: 2.42 million t

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)
  • Paul Deutsch: The Upper Silesian coal and steel industry before and after the division of the industrial area . Bonn 1926.
  • Zygfryd Piątek: Coal mining in Poland in the interwar period 1918 to 1939 . In: The cut 1/2000 . 52nd year.
  • 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 issued by the “Verlag von Priebatsch's Buchhandlung Breslau”.

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