Steinbecker tunnel
The Steinbecker Stollen is a tunnel in the Ibbenbüren coalfield . It is located in the Steinbeck district of Reck in the Buchholzer Forest on the edge of the Ibbenbürener Bergplatte . Because of its location in the Buchholz, it is also often called the Buchholzer Stollen . It was used to drain water from the Buchholz pit.
In order to make the operation of the Buchholz mine profitable, the tunnel project for the Steinbeck tunnel was approved on September 28, 1748. This began in the Mertenshal or Martensthal on the northern slope of the mountains. It reached the Buchholz seam in 1752 at 200 peaks (418 m). Numerous shafts and two light holes were sunk in the tunnel . During the tunneling work one came across the old man again and again , a sign that extensive dismantling had already taken place many years ago despite difficult water conditions. When the Rudolfschacht was connected with the Püsselbueren conveyor tunnel and the Dickenberg deep tunnel in 1896 , the Steinbeck tunnel finally lost its function as a water solution tunnel. The construction of the Bodelschwingh tunnel, which began to replace the Steinbecker tunnel, was abandoned as early as 1852. During the Second World War, the tunnel served the Steinbeck population as protection from the hostilities in Steinbeck. In 1987 the tunnel mouth hole was restored by an association and can be visited.
literature
- Hubert Rickelmann , Hans Röhrs : The Ibbenbürener hard coal mining. From the beginning to the present . 2nd, revised edition. Schöningh, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna and Zurich 1987, 350 pages, ISBN 3-506-77224-4 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 5 ″ N , 7 ° 42 ′ 16 ″ E