Pump art in the Furth mine

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Pump art in the Furth mine

Location of the former Furth mine

Location of the former Furth mine

Location and history
Pump art in the Furth pit (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Pump art in the Furth mine
Coordinates 50 ° 50 '49 "  N , 6 ° 5' 31"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 50 '49 "  N , 6 ° 5' 31"  E
Location Germany
North Rhine-Westphalia
City region Aachen
Würselen
Waters worm
Built around 1680
Shut down around 1883/84
technology
use Pumping and driving skills
Grinder Linkage and pumps
drive Watermill
water wheel Water wheels

The art of pumping in the Furth mine 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 pumping in the Furth pit was located on 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 art of pumping in the Ath pit , below was the art of pumping in the Klosterrath pits .

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

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 mine, which was built in the 16th century. The northern water wheels belonged to the Furth mine. Coal mining began in this pit around 1550. Until around 1680, the pit was still drained with hand pumps. Then one began to set up water wheels for the pump drive ( pump art ) and for the mine trip ( driving art ). The then high level of technology was maintained until the mine was closed in 1883/84, when other pits had long been working with steam engines . Parts of the company buildings are still inhabited today.

The Further pump art was considered a sight and was described and admired by the villagers as the eighth wonder of the world . At the meeting of the Monarchs' Congress in Aachen in 1818 , Franz I, Emperor of Austria and his Russian counterpart, Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, paid a special visit to the mine.

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

  • Inhabited part of the Furth mine

  • Memories of old times

  • The memorial stone commemorates the art of driving in 1769

  • 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 Furth 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/