Rodder pit

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Rodder pit
legal form Mining trade union ,
later public limited company
founding 1821 (union)
1908 (joint stock company)
Seat Bruehl (Rhineland)
Branch Mining ( lignite )

Location of the Roddergrube in the Rhenish lignite district
Zierbrikett the G ewerkschaft R oddergrube

The Roddergrube (full name initially Union Roddergrube , later Braunkohlen- und Briketwerke Roddergrube AG ) is a former company from Brühl . It operated the mining and briquetting of brown coal from the opencast mine of the same name in Heide and later also from other mines in the Ville and in the rest of the Rhenish brown coal district .

history

A share of more than 1,000 marks in the brown coal and briquet works Roddergrube AG from February 1909

The Roddergrube is named after the Rodderhof , which belonged to the nearby Benden monastery . The associated existing brown coal mine was leased from the monastery to Adam Braun for 12 years in 1766 (even with the obligation to replant the charred area). The mine thus had the longest mining tradition in the Rhineland. In 1807 he was also the tenant of the approximately 1 hectare mine site. In 1821 the field was re-awarded by Prussia under French law with the condition that an open-cast mine be set up. However, this came about after several changes of ownership only in the mid-1870s. In 1846 the yard and pit passed to a Heinrich Joseph Lieven from Niederembt . His son-in-law, who took over both in 1866, had the subsequent field named after his father-in-law Josephsberg lend him. Initially, the mining took place in smaller hollows for the manual production of clods ; It was not until 1874, after two changes of ownership, that the AG Brühl-Godesberg Association for Brown Coal Utilization opened a large-scale open-cast mine to supply a briquette factory for wet stones that had been built shortly before, but which was converted after two years. From 1877 onwards, two Exter presses (named after their inventor Carl Exter ) were used to press lignite briquettes , which later became known as Union briquettes . Until 1885, the mine was the first industrial briquette manufacturer in the Rhineland, along with the neighboring Brühl union factory . In 1878 the mine was taken over by Friedrich Eduard Behrens , the senior court attorney Heinrich Kleinrath from Hanover and Hermann Gruhl from Halle , who later owned the Gruhlwerk mine, after bankruptcy due to low sales, despite the railway connection since 1876 (initially a single-lane line on the Eifel line to Liblar) thus founded the Roddergrube union . Gustav Wegge became technical director (from 1893), later general manager and chairman of the board (1919–1934) .

Gotteshülfeteich

After the Roddergrube mine field was largely exhausted, the Roddergrube union relocated coal mining to the neighboring Josephsberg field (both are now flooded and are part of the Heider Bergsee ). The Roddergrube union grew into the largest lignite works in the area; Until 1895, in addition to the main plants Roddergrube and Josephsberg, the Gotteshülfe (today Gotteshülfesee ) and Bardenberg mines near Gleuel , Gerhard and Gertrud near Berrenrath (now Otto-Maigler-See ) as well as Hermann and Alexander near Frechen belonged to it.

In 1908 the two trade unions Roddergrube and Brühl merged to form Braunkohlen- und Briketwerke Roddergrube AG .

In the same year, the Roddergrube took over all the Kuxe of the United Ville union at Knapsack . From this it followed 1913 the conclusion of a supply contract for coal with the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk (RWE), in addition to the Grube United Ville the power plant Vorgebirgszentrale built (1920 renamed Goldberg headquarters or power plant Goldberg ). A few years later, in 1922, RWE became the majority owner of the Roddergrube in order to ensure the long-term supply of their power plants, especially the Goldenberg headquarters.

Under the ownership of the mighty RWE, the Roddergrube expanded its field of activity over the years and took over other opencast mines in the district, including the large opencast mines United Ville , Berrenrath and Berrenrath-West (originated from the above-mentioned mines) as well as Theresia (Hermülheim) , Frimmersdorf and Inden .

As early as 1933/35 there was a cross-shareholding with the Rheinische AG for lignite mining and briquette production (Rheinbraun). In 1952 the Roddergrube was taken over by Niederrheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG (NBW) from Frimmersdorf , the operator of the power station there . In 1959/60, the Roddergrube company went up in the course of the great merger of the Rhenish lignite works in Rheinbraun.

Before the Second World War, Edmund Tobies († 1964) was General Manager. The defense industry called the war the maximum coal production and power generation. Despite the repeated destruction caused by the Allied air raids, it was guaranteed by the operator Horst Forchmann (1905–1988). After the war, he was appointed General Director of the British Military Government after the entire top management was removed. Tobies was an old man, Forchmann an honorary member of the Corps Marcomannia Breslau, which was then based in Cologne and Aachen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heusler, Conrad: Description of the Brühl-Unkel mining area and the lignite basin on the Lower Rhine. Editing on behalf of the Royal Oberbergamtes zu Bonn, Bonn: Marcus, 1897, 239 p. - at www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de
  2. ↑ Anja Badran and Simone Bartz: Briquette advertising - then and now on www.rwe.com (PDF)
  3. ^ Walter Buschmann , Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland. ed. from LVR and MBV-NRW , 2008, pp. 278 f and 285 f
  4. ↑ HWPH Historical securities firm AG: lignite and Briketwerke Roddergrube
  5. ↑ www.rwe.com: RWE AG - Chronicle 1921-1930
  6. ↑ RWE AG: 100 years of lignite mining in the northern district (PDF)
  7. ^ Mining archive Bochum: Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke AG, Cologne
  8. ^ Heinrich Hackemann, obituary for EM Horst Forchmann, Corps newspaper of the Marcomannia Breslau.

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 47.1 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 1.5 ″  E