Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstollen
| Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstollen | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 13 | ||
| Start of operation |
 August 16, 1826
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| End of operation |
 1878 (1931)
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| Degradation of | Iron ore | ||
| Greatest depth | 144 m | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '44 " N , 7 ° 59' 49" E | ||
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| Location | Ernsdorf | ||
| local community | Kreuztal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Mountain area Müsen | ||
The Kronprinz-Friedrich-Wilhelm-Erbstollen (inscription: "Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstolln" and a Prussian eagle surrounded by the year " 1825 " ) in the Kreuztal district of Ernsdorf was hewn in 1826 and primarily served to solve the Martinshardt pits between Littfeld and Müsen but as a deeper leg of the Stahlberg mine .
history
The tunnel was laid out on August 16, 1826 as the Tiefer Martinshardt tunnel and was built until 1878 to a length of 4053 m to the Stahlberger shaft . There it met the shaft at a depth of 144 m . With the Stahlberger Erbstollen a 5145 m long underground connection between Ernsdorf and Müsen was created. According to estimates prior to construction, this should take 86 years and the tunnel should be finished in 1912. The cost should be 125,000 thalers. In addition to the Stahlberg mine, the Kuhlenberg and Wilder Mann mines with connected mines in Ferndorf were connected, and after the turn of the century the Altenberg and Silberardt mines .
Despite long planning, the tunnel was only built in 1825 after the Siegerland became Prussian in 1815. It was named after the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm . On October 16, 1833, he visited the tunnel, which in 1834 was just 104 m long. The Prussian state financed the construction of the tunnel until 1856, then the Cöln-Müsener Bergwerkverein . After 2860 m, the tunnel reached the Kuhlenberg mine around 1865 . From 1870 onwards, countering the tunnel from the Stahlberger Schacht began and met only eight years later. Until 1931, the tunnel served as the hereditary tunnel for the Stahlberg mine . This was the last to be closed in the area.
The tunnel was equipped with a steam engine with 12 hp. In 1854 the gallery had 13 employees. A weather shaft was built at a length of 1,000 m. This was 74 m deep, a 78 m deep shaft was also built.
The following lengths were achieved:
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Compared to the so-called tunnel was about 1865 studs houses built. In the house there was a study for the respective Steiger and a material store for everything that was needed in the tunnel. Before entering the tunnel, the house was the miners' song and prayer room.
During the Second World War, the tunnel served as a “protective bunker” for the Kreuztal population, and later as a drinking water storage facility for Kreuztal. In 1980 a memorial and information board was set up in front of the tunnel with a cross-section of the Stahlberg and Quarries pits, as well as three hunts loaded with rock and overburden . The tunnel house also got an information board.
On March 25, 1985, the tunnel was placed under monument protection and thus preserved for posterity.
See also
literature
- Ute Bosbach: Search for traces in Eisenland - On the way on ore roads and miners ' paths, Verlag amadeusmedien, November 2006. ISBN 3-9808936-8-5
- Mathias Döring: Iron and silver - water and forest - pits, smelters and hammer mills in the Müsen mining area , Die Wielandschmiede publishing house, Kreuztal 1999.
Web links
- Mining in the Müsener Revier
- Listed facade of the gallery (PDF file; 153 kB)
swell
- T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
- Journal for mining, metallurgy and saltworks , issues 1855–1868