Meilhardt
| Meilhardt mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Opencast mining , tunnel construction | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 41 | ||
| Start of operation | 1866 | ||
| End of operation | January 1961 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown iron ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 37 '46 " N , 8 ° 35' 7" E | ||
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| local community | Biebertal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | to water | ||
| country | State of Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Wetzlar | ||
The Meilhardt mine was a mining operation at the southern foot of the Dünsberg , in what is today the municipality of Biebertal , in the district of Gießen , which mined Brauneisenstein. It is one of the mines in the Lahn-Dill area .
Origin and history
The Meilhardt mine field was awarded to Wilhelm Briel on December 15, 1865 for iron ore and brown stone. In 1866, 20 miners extracted 2,904 tons of brown iron stone from a depth of up to 17 meters in civil engineering at the marrow of the Eleanor mine .
The foreseeable end of the extraction in this area caused Briel, in 1872, to sink a large number of mining shafts in the western part of the mine field, all of which were found on Brauneisenstein.
Due to the positive report of the Königlichen Bergrath zu Wetzlar Wilhelm Riemann to the Oberbergamt zu Bonn, in which he put the new excavations on the east side of the Biebertal at 2,250,000 tons of ore with a "moderate estimate", the newly founded on October 15, 1872 decided Aktiengesellschaft "Schalker Gruben- und Hüttenverein" to acquire the Meilhardt mine for 100,000 thalers. The purchase contract is dated February 6, 1873.
The expectations seemed to be confirmed when in 1873 with 15,870 t of ore in a newly constructed open pit, the highest annual production in the history of the Meilhardt mine was achieved. Later underground mining was also carried out below the opencast mine.
For various reasons, however, there was a steady decline in production, which reached its lowest level for the time being in 1880 with an annual production of 1270 t of ore.
Findings during research work on the western slope of the Kehlbachtal in 1875 led to the decision to use the "Meilhardtstollen" as a conveying and water solution tunnel in the Kehlbachtal. Driving began in 1876 and reached the ore deposit in 1878 with a tunnel length of 200 meters. During the dismantling of the camp, the tunnel was driven further in the direction of the marrow sheath to the Friedberg pit , where it reached a length of 650 meters in 1881.
The low manganese content of the Brauneisenstein deposit led to the closure of the Meilhardt mine in January 1886. Most recently, 11 miners were employed on the mine.
In connection with the construction of the Biebertal Railway and the Abendstern ore loading point, ores were still mined by Buderus and Stumm until 1961 at the marrow sheath of the Friedberg and Eleonore mine .
literature
- The Dünsberg and the Biebertal , Ed. Dünsberg-Verein Biebertal 1982, ISBN 3-9800654-0-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mining in the Biebertal at the foot of the Dünsberg , PDF document on homersheimat.de