Wood pit

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Wood shaft (in the foreground the mine house, behind the conveyor frame and the hoisting machine house)

The wood mine is a listed ensemble , which consists of the individual monuments colliery house , hoisting machine house and hoisting frame . It is located on the L128 in the Am Wasserturm industrial park in Holz . The mine belonged to the Westfeld mining area of the Göttelborn mine, which was closed in 2000, and was classified by the Saarland State Monuments Office as a “small day-to-day facility of great architectural importance”.

history

In 1906, the exit of the day route was in the Eilert seam, east of today's mine in Göttelborn. To get to the Westfeld mining area , the miners first had to go to Göttelborn and then walk underground to the Westfeld mining area. As a result, the miners had less time for mining. The Prussian mine administration took this into account when it decided in 1912 to build a mine with a mine house. The colliery house was completed in 1913. It includes a bathhouse , a Verlesesaal , a coffee kitchen , a lamp room and offices for the Steiger . In 1915 the shaft was completed with a depth of 143 meters and a headframe was erected above it. The further reduction in 1937 made it necessary the shaft to the third floor to sink. The new shaft depth was now 443 meters. As a result, a new headframe had to be installed. This is the headframe that still exists today. In addition, were fans installed. The shaft was sunk to 594 meters for the last time in 1962 and a larger hoisting machine was installed. In 1967, the people entrance was completely stopped. In 1991 the fans and the associated machine house were dismantled. The shaft was backfilled in the same year after it was shut down by Saarbergwerke AG in 1994.

In 1997, a private entrepreneur acquired part of the site of the industrial park including the winding tower and the winding machine house. The winding machine house was renovated by the entrepreneur and converted into a two-story office building. The headframe is used by various mobile phone providers as a transmission system. The colliery, including the associated property, was sold to another entrepreneur in 2002. According to his own statements, he invested € 400,000 in the renovation of the facade of the building and the renovation of the interior.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saarland Ministry of Education and Culture - State Monuments Office: List of monuments of the Saarland - List of monuments, regional association Saarbrücken ( online )
  2. ↑ Saarland Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Transport - Landesdenkmalamt: Monuments of coal mining in Saarland - locations and development ( online )
  3. ↑ a b Fred Kiefer: New life in the old coffee shop . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, May 22, 2008 ( online )
  4. ^ KH Janson: The Holzer Westfeldschacht . In: The Köllertaler Bote history and stories from home, Heimatkundlicher Verein Köllertal e. V., Issue No. 5, December 1998
  5. ↑ Publicly accessible information board at the mine house
  6. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: On the charm of a former winding tower . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, August 17, 2012 ( online )