Orange Nassau I
Oranje Nassau I ( ON-I ) was a hard coal mine in Heerlen in the Dutch province of Limburg and was one of four mines owned by NV Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Limburgsche Steenkolenmijnen Oranje-Nassau .
history
Already before 1870 it was found that below Heerlens there were seam-bearing carbon layers from a depth of 40 meters . Two German entrepreneurs and engineers from the Aachen area soon acquired the concession for hard coal mining in the area of the 'Oranje-Nassau' concession with an area of around 3600 hectares. It is named after the House of Nassau-Orange , the Dutch royal family. The concession extended largely under the Heerlen area.
Since Heerlen initially had no connection to the railway network, it took some time before the Oranje-Nassau I mine went into production. It was not until 1896, when Heerlen by Henri Sarolea built railway line Sittard -Heerlen- Herzogenrath at two railway networks, the Dutch and German, connection found one began with the drilling of the first two wells of ON-I. Production started in 1899.
Sarolea, who was responsible for the railway connection, and the brothers Friedrich and Carl Honigmann laid the foundation stone for the largest private mining company in the Netherlands with the commissioning of the ON-I.
literature
- Anon : Uit de Machinekamer. Limburg Kolen. (Contemporary source; from: zuivelhistorienederland.nl)
- Anon: Club Aachener Casino . Festschrift, 2 volumes. passim .
- R. Bisscheroux: Sarolea en de gebroeders Honigmann: grondleggers the modern steenkolenmijnbouw in Nederland 1888–1898. Amsterdam 1994, pp. 21-35.
- JTJ Jamar: De totstandkoming van de spoorlijn Sittard-Heerlen-Herzogenrath. In: Het Land van Heerle. Volume 40, 1990, pp. 45-54.
- N. Jessen: Orange Nassau Mijnen. Heerlen 1953, ed. on behalf of NV Maatschappij dead Exploitatie van Limburgsche Steenkolenmijnen called Oranje Nassau Mijnen on the occasion of the company's 60th anniversary.
