Machine house of the Wallfisch colliery

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Machine house of the Wallfisch colliery
Witten Zeche Walfisch.JPG
Data
place Witten
Coordinates 51 ° 27 '37.4 "  N , 7 ° 21' 2.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '37.4 "  N , 7 ° 21' 2.3"  E

The machine house of the Wallfisch colliery (also referred to as the Walfisch colliery in recent publications ) is a listed building in Witten from around 1850. The building belonged to the Wallfisch colliery and is now part of the early industrialization theme route of the route of industrial culture . It is located in the Stockum / Düren district of Witten , on Steinäckerweg.

The winding machine building was built from the Ruhr sandstone , which is common in the region . The walled-up arched gates and the rope slots can still be seen. The machine house is the oldest surviving day plant building in the Ruhr area .

history

Detail of the front

The Wallfisch colliery was consolidated into Vereinigte Wallfisch in August 1832 through the merger of the Wallfischbänke collieries , Steinbergerbank and Stephansbank . The construction of the machine house is related to the sinking of the Theodor shaft in the 1850s. In addition to the production shaft, a drainage shaft was subsequently sunk to drain the pit. As early as 1873, it was necessary to build a second shaft, 150 m from the first shaft. It was put into operation in 1878 as a shaft. In 1893 six shafts were in operation, five of which were weather shafts . Due to the exhaustion of the deposit , the colliery was combined with Tiefbau Franziska in 1894 , and one year later it was merged with the colliery United Hamburg and Franziska . In 1896 a new test shaft was sunk, but water ingress at 28 m. On March 31, 1898, mining was stopped and operations were taken over by the United Hamburg and Franziska mine.

After the colliery was finally closed in 1925, the building was converted into a residential building.

Todays use

The converted building has been used as a private home since 1980. The oldest surviving engine house of a coal mine was entered in the list of listed buildings in Witten on April 19, 1983. At the beginning of 2013, evidence of the early coal mining was incorporated into the Route of Industrial Culture.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former shaft building of the "Wallfisch" colliery. (No longer available online.) In: kulturregion-swf.de. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016 ; accessed on January 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturregion-swf.de
  2. ^ Colliery Walfisch. In: route-industriekultur.de. Retrieved January 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ United Whales shaft building. In: The early mining of the Ruhr. ruhrkohlebergbau.de, 2009, accessed on January 15, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Annette Kreikenbohm: Live beautifully in a mining monument. WAZ , November 7, 2013, accessed December 26, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Joachim Huske: The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 1997 . Ed .: German Mining Museum. 2nd Edition. Bochum 1998, ISBN 3-921533-62-7 , p. 998 ff .

Web links

Commons : Zeche Wallfisch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~11~111022