Pumping skills of the Klosterrath pits

Klosterrath pits in Herzogenrath
Location of the former Klosterrath mine
Location and history
Coordinates	50 ° 51 '1 "  N , 6 ° 5' 21"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '1 "  N , 6 ° 5' 21"  E
Location	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia City region Aachen Herzogenrath
Waters	worm
Built	around 1616
Shut down	around 1800
technology
use	Pumping and driving skills
Grinder	Linkage and pumps
drive	Watermill
water wheel	Water wheels

Location of the Klosterrath pits

The pumping skills of the Klosterrath pits were pumps and rods driven by water wheels for the drainage and mining of the Wurm in the city of Herzogenrath in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​region of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The pumping skills of the Klosterrath pits were located on the Wurm, in the Pesch district, in the city of Herzogenrath. Several water wheels stood at a height of approx. 118 m above sea ​​level . Above was the art of pumping in the Furth mine , below was the ban mill in Herzogenrath.

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km. The source of the worm is located south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level, the confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the city of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. The water association Eifel-Rur (WVER) is responsible for the care and maintenance of the water body with a catchment area of ​​355.518 km ² .

history

The time at which the hard coal was discovered in the Aachen mining area is documented differently. What is certain, however, is that hard coal has been mined in opencast mines and in small shafts since the beginning of the 13th century . People quickly realized what an important fuel coal was. The monk of the monastery council , Abbot Baldwin von Horpuch, had the first pump art built on the Wurm as early as 1616 for his pit on the Kohlberg near Pesch . Much larger systems were built in 1773 for the monastery pits in Maubach, which had a water wheel 13 m in diameter . The art of pumping was used in the pits until around 1800. After the French era , steam power caught on almost everywhere . With this, the art of fire had found its place in history .

In mining, art was understood to mean any type of machine that did the work for people and made it easier. So there was the art of pumping for dewatering in the pits . These were pumps that were driven by water power and moved over a more or less long field linkage .

literature

• Hans Vogt: Lower Rhine water mill guide 2nd edition. Niederrhein Association, Krefeld 1998, ISBN 3-00-002906-0 , pp. 265-267
• Erich Mertes • Daniel Heidenbluth • Peter Bertram: Mills of the Eifel Volume II, Die Nordeifel, 2005, ISBN 3-938208-09-0 , pp. 148–149

→ See also the list of mills on the Wurm

Web links

Commons : Pump arts of the Klosterrather Gruben  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
2. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
3. ↑ http://www.wver.de/