Landesoberbergamt Dortmund

Landesoberbergamt, Dortmund, Department of Mining and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia of the Arnsberg district government

Landesoberbergamt Dortmund

Facade detail: reminder of the royal mining authority Wetter

The Landesoberbergamt Dortmund - originally Oberbergamt Dortmund - was the supervisory and administrative authority for the Westphalian and from 1970 also for the Rhenish mines .

history

With the increasing industrialization of the Ruhr area and the emergence of a large number of collieries and mines, it became necessary to create an administrative structure. The statesman Freiherr vom Stein caused the Prussian government to set up a mining office in the Ruhr area. In 1792 the first mining office was set up in Wetter an der Ruhr .

The Castle weather was from 1784 to 1792 the official residence of Baron von Stein in his time as director of Cleves-Berg Märkischen Office, from June 1792 Mining Office. Before that, from 1738, the Märkisches Bergamt had been in Bochum.

A short time later the headquarters were relocated to Essen and then to Bochum .

In 1815 the office was finally relocated to Dortmund , where they moved into a building on the Alter Markt . The Oberbergamt was responsible for the mining supervision and from 1865 onwards was based on the general mining law for the Prussian states.

The original building on the Alter Markt became too small due to the development of mining in the region; therefore, in 1875, the company moved to a new building on the east wall. Thirty years later, this building also no longer met the requirements and a new administration building was moved into the east of the city center.

In 1896 the southernmost part of the Dortmund Oberbergamt consisted of the mountain areas of Oberhausen , Hattingen , Werden and Witten .

This building ensemble was designed jointly by the government builder Behrendt and the Dortmund building councilor Claren and moved into in 1910. It is a representative, three-storey building with a side wing and a slate-covered clock tower. This building was badly damaged in the Second World War, but could be rebuilt almost unchanged.

As part of an administrative reform, the Bonn Upper Mining Office and the Dortmund Upper Mining Office were merged into the North Rhine-Westphalia State Upper Mining Office . Dortmund was the seat of the new authority.

On January 1, 2001, the State Mining Office was formally dissolved. The department of mining and energy in North Rhine-Westphalia of the district government of Arnsberg took on his task at the same point .

The building of the Landesoberbergamt is registered as an architectural monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund and part of the route of industrial culture .

Miners

The miners were the heads of the mining authority.

Mining captains of the Dortmund Oberbergamt

• Toussaint of Charpentier (1830–1833)
• Karl von Oeynhausen (1855–1864)
• August von Schoenaich-Carolath (1863–1888)
• Otto Taeglichsbeck
• Gisbert Krümmer (1904–1905)
• Otto Scharf (1905–1906)
• Franz Liebrecht (1906-1919)
• Karl Schantz (November 19, 1919 - April 30, 1923)
• Carl Overthun (May 11, 1923 - September 30, 1929)
• Karl Hatzfeld (October 1, 1929–1933)
• Guntram Polster (1933–24 June 1940)
• Friedrich Nolte (1945–1949)
• Hans Schwake (1949–1963)
• Ludger Funder (1963–1964)
• Hugo Sanders (1964– March 31, 1968)
• Albert Coenders (1969–1970)

Mining captains of the regional mining authority

• Albert Coenders (1970-1983)
• Helmut Schelter (1983–1993)
• Hilmar Fornelli (1993/1996–1998)
• Hans-Jürgen von Bardelbe (1999/2000)
• Ekhart Maatz (from 2001)

literature

• The new service building for the Royal Mining Authority in Dortmund . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 62, 1912, Sp. 25–38 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin)
• Helmut Schelter: The historical development of the state mining authority North Rhine-Westphalia. Geology and mining. In: Christoph Bartels, Reinhard Feldmann, Klemens Oekentorp (eds.): Geology and mining in the Rhenish-Westphalian area: books from the historical library of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Mining Authority in Dortmund (publications from the University and State Library of Münster, the Geological-Paleontological Museum of the University of Münster and the German Mining Museum Bochum, vol. 11). Münster 1994, pp. 93-100.

Web links

Commons : Landesoberbergamt Dortmund  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10628

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.lwl.org/westfaelische-geschichte/portal/Internet/finde/langDatsatz.php?urlID=1445&url_tabelle=tab_medien
2. ↑ https://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/Westfalen_Regional/Wirtschaft/Bergaufsicht
3. ^ Friedrich Stockfleth: The southernmost part of the Oberbergamtsbezirks Dortmund . Adolph Marcus, Bonn 1896, p. 130 .
4. ↑ No. A 0379. List of monuments of the city of Dortmund. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: dortmund.de - Das Dortmunder Stadtportal. Monument Authority of the City of Dortmund, April 14, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on June 12, 2014 (size: 180 kB). 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.  
5. ^ State archive NRW

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 40 "  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 55"  E