Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Wanda-Lech
The hard coal mine Wanda-Lech (Polish Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Wanda-Lech ) is a decommissioned hard coal mine in the district Wirek (German name Antonienhütte) of Ruda Śląska , Poland.
history
The Wanda-Lech composite mine was created in 1938 from two mines, which have a completely different history and also belonged to different owners. The two mines are shown separately below.
Wanda
When the Paulus-Hohenzollern coal mine was broken up due to the division of Upper Silesia in 1922, the Lithandra and Belowsegen collieries were merged under the new name Wanda as part of the necessary restructuring of the Gräflich Schaffgotsch mines . At the same time, the fields "Saara II" and "Eintracht II" were added to the new mine.
The mine existed as an independent facility until 1955, when it merged with Lech (formerly God's blessing) to form Wanda-Lech .
Today, on the original site of the Lithandra / Wanda mine, the 100 m high “Wanda” shaft and the processing of the Pokój mine, which is still working, are located .
Lithandra
The initially very small mine ( Lage ) with its own field property of only 0.52 km² belonged to the Gräflich Schaffgotsch'schen Werke in Bytom / Beuthen.
Around 1912 it only mined the 3 to 3.5 m thick Antonie seam. This was opened up by the Köhler mine in the southeast of the field with levels at 120 m and at 195 m (uppermost level by Paulus). The close interlinking with the Paulus / Paweł mine, which is also part of the Schaffgotsch Group , is clear from the fact that there was a cross-cutting connection between Lithandra and Paulus , from which the Paulus seam in the "Belowsegen" field was mined.
As part of the splitting of the fields “Sara” and “Eintracht” along ul. P. Niedurnego (west of Schaffgotsch; east of Oberbedarf), the two sub-fields “Sara II” and “Eintracht II” were added. Lithandra not only mined hard coal in the "Belowssegen" field, but also in the "Henriette" and "Regenbogen" fields, which were acquired in 1902 by the Countess Schaffgotsch administration.
Voucher
Paul Jacob von Below , royal advisor on war matters, was awarded the mine on October 5, 1805. It had a very small and crooked pit field between Paulus-Hohenzollern and Lithandra . Below was a first well on the highest point of Nowy Bytom abteufen (today the cemetery at ul. Gen. Hallera) ( location ). The mine often changed hands before one half of the shares went to Count Renard and the other half to Karl Godulla . The mine had its heyday in 1858 when coal production amounted to 8,134 tons. Operations ceased in 1877 and all shafts were filled in in 1888. Its mining area became 1906 with Lithandra.
Lech
From 1931 until the union with Wanda in 1938, the Gottessegen mine was named Lech . From 1922 to 1931 it was called Błogoslawieństwo Boże . Today the two shafts "Lech I / II" are still used by the Pokój mine .
God's blessing
The three fields “God Blessing” (1.00 km²), “Antonie” (0.93 km²) and “Nanette” (0.16 km²) with a size of 2.09 km² belonged to Counts Lazy, Arthur and Edgar since 1802 Henckel von Donnersmarck (Catholic line from Beuthen-Siemianowitz). Since there are other coal fields to the south and east (including "Aline", "Annex", "Bogod", "God's grace", "Handl Saara", "Jennywunsch", "Neue Reinerz", "Souvenir", "Euphemia" , "Viereckssegen", "Gottmituns", "Zukunft" and "Carl") were partly owned by the counts or they had a right of use there, all fields together had the considerable size of 16.19 km².
The coal reserves were opened up by the two mines Aschenborn ( Lage ) and Hillebrand ( Lage ), with Aschenborn being the older system and independent mining on Hillebrand only started in 1906. In 1912, Aschenborn had a 212 m deep extraction and drainage shaft of the same name and the "Graf-Arthur-Schacht" (309 m deep) located south of it, which also served as a weather shaft and for the cable journey to the 8th level. Other weather shafts in this subfield were “Knoff” (105 m) and “Edler” (106 m).
To open up the saddle seam group, the Hillebrand shaft (formerly "Edlerschacht I") was enlarged in cross-section just 500 m further north and sunk to 585 m. This sub-system also included a weather shaft (424 m deep), a separation, a siding and a dump area of 276,000 m².
Błogosławieństwo Boże
From 1922, the Gottessegen mine bore this Polish name. This is just a translation of the original name.
KWK Wanda-Lech
In 1938 the above mentioned mines Lech / Gottessegen and Wanda / Lithandra merged to form Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Wanda-Lech . In 1968 it went up in the Pokój mine .
Funding figures
Wanda 1873: 59,900 t; 1913: 351918 tons
Lech 1873: 283,000 t; 1913: 1.11 million tons
Wanda-Lech 1938: 875,198 t; 1965: 1.21 million t
present
From the old Gottessegen colliery there is still a Makalow tower called “Andrzej Jesienią” (Aschenborn facility), the two shafts “Lech I / II” (Hillebrand facility) in ul mentioned Haldenplatz north of Lech / Hillebrand .
The "Wanda", "Lech I / II" and "Otilie" shafts are now part of the Pokój mine.
literature
- Paul Deutsch: The Upper Silesian coal and steel industry before and after the division of the industrial area . Bonn 1926.
- 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).
- Jerzy Jaros: Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Katowice 1984.
- 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.
Web links
- The location of the shafts of all the mines mentioned here can be found on the website https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=ziy6aLIARhEE.kbbOzF3tvwc8&msa=0 (accessed on October 9, 2015)
- 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)
Map with all coordinates: