Klettwitz mine
The Klettwitz shaft is a mining monument in the southern Brandenburg municipality of Schipkau in the municipality of Klettwitz in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district .
history
The mine was built from 1964 to 1966. It was not a mine for the extraction of raw materials , but was intended to drain the overburden in the run-up to the Klettwitz open-cast lignite mine . In 1981 work in the shaft was stopped and it was backfilled. Since the renovation in 2000, the community of Schipkau has been operating the daytime facilities of the mine as a mining monument; In addition to the headframe and the machine house, part of a drainage line can be viewed.
System and functionality
Within two months, the miners from VEB Schachtbau Welzow drilled a vertical shaft into the second brown coal seam , which was up to 63 meters deep. From there, several kilometers of driving and swamp routes were driven into the lignite . In the routes, coal and overburden were removed by trains . The groundwater drained into the swamp stretches, flowed to the shaft and collected at the deepest points of the swamp stretches; from there it was pumped to the surface. As a result, the overburden was drained and could be mined in an open pit . The routes were later dredged over by the open pit mine.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Representation of the mine on the homepage of the community Schipkau , accessed on August 11, 2009.
- Article in the Lausitzer Rundschau from July 8, 2009
- Additional information
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 44.2 " N , 13 ° 53 ′ 31.7" E