Laurentius-Erbstollen

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Laurentius-Erbstollen
General information about the mine
other names St. Laurentius-Erbstollen
Laurentius-Stollen
Information about the mining company
Employees approx. 14
Start of operation 1860
End of operation 1940
Successor use Cleverbank colliery
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 23 '57.7 "  N , 7 ° 16' 4.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '57.7 "  N , 7 ° 16' 4.9"  E
Laurentius-Erbstollen (Regional Association Ruhr)
Laurentius-Erbstollen
Location Laurentius-Erbstollen
Location Hammertal Durchholz
local community Witten
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Witten
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Laurentius Erbstollen is a former Erbstollen in Witten- Hammertal-Durchholz. The tunnel was sometimes called the St. Laurentius Erbstollen . Years earlier, the Hammerthaler Erbstollen was supposed to be excavated at the same place as the Laurentius Erbstollen . The Laurentius Erbstollen was part of the Sprockhövel mountain area .

history

The beginnings

On April 10, 1858, the suspicion was given that a pit field had fallen out of the mountains . In 1860 the right to inheritance was granted . In the same year, the tunnel was set up in the lower Hammertal . The tunnel mouth hole was at a height of +84 meters above sea ​​level . The tunnel was driven in an easterly direction mainly in the seam Mausegatt lower bank . In 1862, the mine fields of mines were Lebrecht , balances mountain and Saufberg solved . At a length of 433½ Lachter from the tunnel mouth hole, the driveway was initially stopped. The following year the tunnel was in operation. In 1865 the tunnel in seam No. 1 moved up at 196½ laughers. In addition, 2478 tons of hard coal were mined that year .

By the end of the year the tunnel had reached a length of 433½ Lachter from the tunnel mouth hole. In 1867, three miners mined four tons of hard coal. In 1870 the tunnel reached a length of 536 Lachter from the Stollenmundloch, this year 14 miners mined 344 tons of coal. In 1872 a mine field of the Rummelskirchen colliery was leased, there the operation continued to be independent, the mining took place through the Laurentius-Erbstollen. From the second half of 1876, the excavation of the tunnel was deferred with a length of about 1250 meters from the tunnel mouth hole . As of October 8, 1879, operations in the tunnel ceased and only maintenance work was carried out.

The other years

In 1880 the breakthrough took place with the Blankenburg colliery . At that time, the Blankenburg colliery owned the Kuxen majority of the Laurentius-Erbstollen. In the following year the tunnel was taken out of service. In 1887, the Erbstollen was driven further to solve the Julius length field . The excavation took place from the Rummelskirchen field in a southerly direction. In 1888, the Dorothea field was cleared , and the extraction took place via the hereditary tunnel by means of horses . Then the degraded were minerals over a Bremsberg for civil sole Zeche Blankenburg promoted . From there, the funding was made to the shaft Blankenburg, where the mined ore was to day promoted . In the years 1889 to 1896, the fields Julius, Dorothea and Rummelskirchen were extracted via the Laurentius Erbstollen. In 1906 and 1907, the Erbstollen was driven up to a length of 1550 in the direction of Witten-Kämpen. The purpose of this further excavation was to solve the fields of St. Josephus , Friedrich August, St. Anna & Sybilla , Rudolphsbank and Thuegut . At this point in time, there were two tunnels and a barrel-length shaft. In 1916, mining in the Erbstollen was stopped. In 1925 the Laurentius Erbstollen was shut down together with the Blankenburg colliery. After the closure, the tunnel was still used for water drainage. In 1935 the rightful owner was taken over by the Cleverbank colliery . The tunnel was renamed the Laurentius tunnel.

Laurentius Stollen

The Laurentius tunnel in Witten-Hammertal-Durchholz was created in 1935 when the decommissioned Laurentius tunnel was renamed. The total length of the tunnel was around 1550 meters when it was taken over by the Cleverbank colliery. In 1937 the tunnel was driven and it was found that large parts of the tunnel had been broken . In addition, at this point in time the right to the tunnel had already expired. In the same year, work began to open up the broken tunnel . By the end of the following year, 600 meters of the tunnel had been completed. After the work had been completed, the tunnel could be used again for drainage. In 1940 the breakthrough took place with the Cleverbank colliery. As a result, the tunnel was connected to the fields in the Pleßbachtal, which had been acquired by the Cleverbank mine. The tunnel finally became part of the Cleverbank colliery and from that point on served as a conveyor tunnel .

Current condition

The tunnel mouth hole of the Laurentius Erbstollen is still preserved today. This is located on the premises of Paul Pleiger Maschinenfabrik and is not accessible from the outside.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144). 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  3. ↑ a b c Ministry of Trade and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Volume fourteenth, published by the royal and secret Ober-Hofdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1866.
  4. ^ The early mining of the Ruhr: Mundloch des Laurentius Erbstollen (accessed on October 15, 2012).

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