Hard coal works in Germany
| VEB Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| other names | Union of Germany | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | June 8, 1871 | ||
| End of operation | 1961 | ||
| Successor use | industrial Estate | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 43 '34.1 " N , 12 ° 41' 36.4" E | ||
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| Location | Oelsnitz / Erzgeb., Deutschlandschachtstrasse 10 | ||
| local community | Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Erzgebirgskreis | ||
| country | Free State of Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal field | ||
The Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland was a mining company on hard coal in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains .
history
The mining of hard coal was organized by several companies one after the other.
- 1871–1889 Aktiengesellschaft coal mining association "Germany"
- 1899–1946 "Germany" trade union
- 1946–1966 VEB hard coal works "Germany"
Coal Mining Association "Germany"
Around 1870 there was a great boom with the establishment of many new mining companies in Oelsnitz / E., Hohndorf and Gersdorf with many new shafts , including on June 8, 1871 the “Germany” coal mining association. On April 17, 1889, this was converted into a trade union , which should develop into the second large mining operator in the area .
Union "Germany"
The German trade union consolidated in 1906 with the “Vereinsglück” coal works in Oelsnitz and acquired further mining rights from the Fürstlich-Schönburgische Steinkohlenwerke and the Vaterlandsgrube. In 1919 the city of Leipzig acquired a majority stake in the company and in 1920 the Oelsnitzer Bergbaugesellschaft was acquired. Also from 1920, the two Germany shafts were converted into a central system, and Germany shaft II received a new, 50 meter high winding tower in the so-called Heimatschutz style with an electric tower hoisting system . The Germany shafts I and II and Vereinigtfeld I in Hohndorf belonged to the German trade union .
In 1937 coal from the neighboring plant Gottes Segen was illegally mined, for which Germany had to pay compensation of 450,000 RM. During the Second World War, the plants were run to wear and tear and prisoners of war were increasingly used to replace the miners who had been called up. In 1945 the plant fell into the red and made a loss of 1.5 million RM. A return to profitability was not to be expected in the future either.
VEB hard coal works "Germany"
After the Second World War, there was a reorganization of the mining industry as a result of the socialist economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone and later in the GDR. The heavy industry in Saxony was expropriated by the referendum in Saxony on June 30, 1946 . Many pits were renamed, e.g. B. the "Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht" in "Karl-Liebknecht-Schacht", but not the Germany-Schächte, since the unity of Germany was not in question at that time. After a brief merger, the two large mining companies continued to exist in the form of the VEB Steinkohlenwerk "Karl-Liebknecht" and the VEB Steinkohlenwerk "Deutschland". In Hohndorf, shaft I of the Vereinigtfeld mine , which had already been dropped, was cleared again , further sold at 1200 m (the European depth record at the time ) and renamed "Rudolf-Breitscheid-Schacht" in order to develop deeper coal reserves below Hohndorf. However, the mine field was less productive than expected and production was stopped in 1960. In that year the two mining companies also became VEB Steinkohlenwerk Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. merged and in 1961 an underground link was created between the two mine fields.
For the further history see VEB hard coal works "Karl-Liebknecht" .
The winding machine house of the Germany I shaft before it was converted into a residential and commercial building in 2007
Winding machine house Shaft I 2017
Winding machine house Schacht I 2017, board on the street side
literature
- Rolf Vogel : The Lugau – Ölsnitzer coal area . Hohenstein – Ernstthal 1992.
- H. Krug: The Lugau-Ölsnitzer coal field . In: Yearbook for the mining and metallurgical industry of Saxony . Freiberg 1920.
Web links
- 40109 union of Germany, Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge in the Freiberg mountain archive
- Inventory 40116 VEB Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge in the Freiberg mountain archive
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Mayer: Business with the black gold . in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from July 5, 2006