Rhine Prussia 5/9 mine

Rhine Prussia 5/9 mine
	General information about the mine
	; Mine 1959
	Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1905
End of operation	1971
Successor use	Consolidation to form the Rhineland composite mine
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 28 '13 " N , 6 ° 38' 19" E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '13 " N , 6 ° 38' 19" E
	Location of the Rheinpreußen mine 5/9
Location	Utfort
local community	Moers
District ( NUTS3 )	Wesel
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Rheinpreußen 5/9 mine is a former mine in Moers .

history

Between 1900 and 1905, the Rheinpreußen 5 shaft was sunk in the Rheinkamp-Utfort district. Like the Rheinpreußen 4 mine, which was started at the same time, it was designed as a connection system to the Rheinpreußen colliery with its own production.

The shaft was also equipped with a double strut frame so that both conveyance and rope travel through this shaft could be managed alone. Subsequently, a coking plant was also built on shaft 5 . Plant 4 and 5 were designed for mechanized extraction from the outset under the technical direction of operations director Heinrich Pattberg .

In 1905 the first vibrating chute was used here , and later further mechanization projects such as cutter loaders and tank extensions were used for the first time on this mine. Rhenish Prussia 5 also developed very promisingly and was soon able to produce almost 1 million t. Increase coal annually.

In 1936, due to political developments, coal liquefaction became the focus of technical interest. For this purpose, a Fischer-Tropsch plant for coal liquefaction was built next to the Rheinpreußen colliery . Therefore, the colliery and its settlements were repeatedly the target of bombing attacks during World War II. The fuel plant was later taken over by Rheinpreußen GmbH for chemical products and later sold to Texaco / DEA. In 1941, shaft 8 (Gerdt) to the east of the main shaft on the banks of the Rhine was sunk as a weather shaft . This was put into operation in 1945 as a weather shaft.

After the Second World War, the mining trade union Rheinpreußen was transferred to the Rheinpreußen Aktiengesellschaft für Bergbau. This carried out various measures to streamline and combine production. In 1953 the coking plant shaft 5 was shut down in favor of the construction of a new central coking plant on the Pattberg mine . A high-pressure power plant was subsequently built in its place.

In 1958, the sinking of the new central conveyor shaft 9 began next to shaft 5. This went into operation in 1962 with a modern, fully automatic vessel conveyor . The rack conveyor , which was also suspended in the shaft, took over the rope travel and material guidance, so that shaft 5 could be replaced as a conveyor shaft. This was subsequently set up as a weather shaft. In 1964, the mining mine Rheinpreußen 4 was shut down and shaft 4 was assigned as a further weather shaft to system 5/9.

In 1968 all of the mining pits belonging to Rheinpreußen AG became the property of Ruhrkohle AG . The Rheinpreußen 5/9 mine, which produced around 1.8 million t of coal annually, was merged with the Pattberg / Rossenray plant management to form the Rhineland composite mine in 1971 .

Current condition

After the closure of the Rheinpreußen 5/9 facility in 1990, the Eurotec technology park was built on the colliery site . The former Kauenhalle from the Wilhelminian era forms the central building of the technology park. Large segmented arched windows, set in natural stone, structure the brick facade, which is flanked on the sides by two towers with bell-shaped helmets. To the right and left of the towers are lower building wings.

Shaft 5 was backfilled in 1988 and the headframe dismantled. After the filling of shaft 9 in 2001, the large tower hoisting system was dismantled in 2003/2004.

photos

Tower of the Kauenhalle
side wing
Demolition work on the shaft 9 shaft tower (June 21, 2004)
Shaft 9 after the winding tower was torn down

literature

Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943

Web links

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