Pump art in the Ath pit

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Pump art in the Ath pit

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Location and history
Pump art in the Ath pit (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Pump art in the Ath pit
Coordinates 50 ° 50 ′ 42 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 12"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 42 "  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 12"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
City region Aachen
Würselen
Waters worm
Built around 1680
Shut down around 1890
technology
use Pumping and driving skills
Grinder Linkage and pumps
drive Watermill
water wheel Water wheels

The art of pumping in the Ath pit were pumps and rods driven by water wheels for drainage and mining on the Wurm in the city of Würselen in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​region of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

geography

The art of pumps in the Ath mine was located at the Wurm near below Wilhelmstein Castle in the city of Würselen. Several water wheels stood at a height of approx. 120 m above sea ​​level . Above was the Bardenberger mill , below was the art of pumping in the Furth pit .

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 km² .

history

In a map by the Markscheider Städtler from Eschweiler from 1789, four pumping arts with a total of five water wheels are drawn relatively close together at the level of Wilhelmstein Castle. The two southern ones belonged to the Ath Pit, which was built in the 16th century. Around 1680 one began to set up water wheels for the pump drive ( pump art ) and for the mine trip ( driving art ). The mine was constantly being expanded, but it was also hit by several mine accidents and fires . In 1879 the disaster pit was shut down and disappeared from the scene.

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 .

gallery

  • Mill pond at the former site of the Ath mine

  • Course of the worm at the former site of the Ath mine

  • Information board about the art of pumps

  • Mine and mill area on the new recording in 1892

  • Pit and mill areas at Wilhelmstein Castle on the first recording in 1846

  • Pit Ath on the tranchot map 1805/07

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: Mühlen der 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 Art in the Ath Pit  - 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/