Gersdorf coal mining association
The Steinkohlenbauverein Gersdorf was a coal mining company in Gersdorf in the Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field , which existed from 1871 to 1944.
history
The first years until 1879
On November 14th, 1871 the Gersdorfer hard coal mining association was founded. But was the only in the Jan. 31, 1872 sinking of the Pluto-shaft , which is only about a kilometer from the Emperor mine shafts was removed, 344 hectares on the pit box to begin. Due to the numerous problems that u. a. In the summer of 1876, two seams , which were together 3.9 meters thick , were only reached in 680 m and 748 m depths , which consisted of a large inflow of water and a lack of suitable labor . As a result, the sinking of the Pluto shaft was terminated at a depth of 748 m. In 1879 the shaft was sunk further down to 736 m and thus a 2.20 m thick third seam was reached.
On January 31, 1872, at a distance of 160 m from the first shaft, the sinking of the second shaft, the Merkur shaft , began, which proceeded as slowly as the first shaft. A connection to the Pluto shaft could not be established until 1878 at a depth of 681 m. Sinking was stopped at a depth of 769 m. This gave the hard coal mining association three seams with a total of 6.1 m of hard coal.
The first hard coal could be sold as early as 1877, which was initially transported away with harness.
Until the mine was closed in 1944
Until 1879, the company was in a financial crisis, because on the one hand there was no adequate means of transport for the sale of the products and on the other hand the prolonged sinking of the two shafts swallowed up enormous financial resources. But on September 1, 1879, a 1.6 km long connecting line from Oelsnitz station on the Stollberg – St. Egidien opened. Three of the four 350 m long parallel tracks in the mine area were used to ship coal, while the fourth was available for material deliveries. As a result, the company developed well financially and operationally.
After the miners' strike of 1912 , many of the 40-year-old operating facilities were comprehensively modernized. The first electrically powered and at the same time the first wet processing plant in Saxony was set up. In contrast to the other hard coal works in the Lugau-Oelsnitz mining area, the company remained independent even during the difficult years after the First World War .
Due to the large inflow of water from the Kaiser mine shafts, which were closed in 1930, and the exhaustion of coal supplies, the operation of the Gersdorfer Steinkohlenbauverein was finally stopped on April 1, 1944. The total production was around 7 million tons of hard coal.
Development after 1944
After 1945 several small and medium-sized companies settled on the former mine site. The former connecting railway is also still there, but has not been used since the early 1990s and has now completely grown over. Their bridge over the road "Hinterm Idaschacht" was demolished in 2018 due to the risk of collapse.
literature
- Rolf Vogel: The Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field , Friends of the Mining Museum Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Breitscheid-Schächte location", Part A - Dismantling of the railway bridge in Hohndorf, Erzgebirgskreis. In: medienservice.sachsen.de. Sächsisches Oberbergamt, October 16, 2018, accessed on October 29, 2018 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 44.8 " N , 12 ° 41 ′ 49.1" E