Karl Liebknecht coal works
The VEB coal plant Karl Liebknecht was a mining company on coal in Lugau in Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal . Since 1986 parts of the former mine are open to the public as the Oelsnitz Mining Museum .
history
The mining of hard coal was organized by several companies one after the other.
- 1856–1899 Coal Mining Association God's Blessing , Lugau
- 1899–1946 God's Blessing Union
- 1946–1960 VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Liebknecht
- 1960–1975 VEB Steinkohlenwerk Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
Coal mining association God's blessing
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In 1856 the coal mining association Gottes Segen was founded, which in the same year sank the shaft of the same name in Lugau . Thanks to the association's conveniently located coal field as well as acquisitions and mergers, the company has become one of the most important mining operators in the area . Among other things, the Fürstlich von Schönburg-Waldenburgsche Steinkohlenwerk with the Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht, which was sunk to 313 m from 1869 to 1874, was taken over in 1895.
Union god bless
After mergers and closures as a result of World War I, only three mining companies in Lugau-Oelsnitzer coal remained in 1921 left: the union of God's blessing , the union Germany and the Gersdorfer coal Building Association .
Modernization of daytime facilities
In the 1920s, extensive modernization meant that the mining of the area was concentrated on a few pits. The Kaiserin-Augusta-Schacht in Neuoelsnitz was expanded into a central system for the God's Blessing Union . In the 1920s, he received a modern winding tower in steel frame construction with brick infills and an electric tower hoisting system . Like the winding tower of Germany Shaft II , it was built in the homeland security style. In 1922/23 a new processing facility with a capacity of 300 t / h was installed. erected, which was able to enforce the entire promotion of the plant. In order to further increase the conveying capacity, the shaft was sold to 595 m in 1932/33 and equipped with a second conveyor system ( steam hoisting machine ). This steam hoisting machine was set up as a floor hoisting machine and a single tube was integrated into the system as a strut to absorb the lateral forces. The preparation of the God's blessing shaft as well as its power station was shut down, so the Huntebrücke could be omitted.
Modernization of the underground operation
A new main hoist level was also excavated at 146 m below sea level in the lying, stable basement , which was given a very generous filling point and train operation with catenary locomotives ( gauge 460 mm) was set up. Thanks to all these measures to concentrate operations, the plant achieved a production capacity of over 1 million tons of hard coal per year and was considered the most modern hard coal plant in Europe.
VEB hard coal works Karl Liebknecht
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, the “God's Blessing Union” was named “VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Liebknecht” and the “Kaiserin-Augusta-Shaft” became the “Karl-Liebknecht-Shaft”. Adolf Hennecke carried out his record shift at the Karl Liebknecht plant in 1948.
VEB coal plant Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
After briefly merging with the German trade union , the two large mining companies continued to exist in the form of VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Liebknecht and VEB Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland . 1961 this became the "VEB coal plant Oelsnitz / Erzgeb." Consolidates . The production was concentrated on the Karl Liebknecht shaft, an underground production connection was created between the two mine fields and the Germany shafts dropped and stored .
In spite of this, production sank continuously in the 1960s due to the running out of reserves and was discontinued with the last promotional shift on March 11, 1971, following a resolution by the GDR Council of Ministers in 1967. The subsequent shutdown lasted until 1975 (backfilling of the shaft tube).
During the decommissioning phase, SDAG Wismut carried out exploratory measures on uranium , but did not encounter any mineralization that was worth building .
Mining museum
In 1967 a "conception for the construction of a technical monument with a museum character about the development of the productive forces of the hard coal mining of the GDR" was decided. From 1976 onwards, part of the daytime facilities was transformed into the “Karl-Liebknecht-Schacht” mining museum and opened to the public on July 4, 1986. In 2015, today's Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge mining museum welcomed the millionth visitor since the museum opened.
literature
- Jan Färber, Heino Neuber: From the mine to the museum. 30 years of the Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge mining museum. in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter Heft 4/2016, pp. 12–15
- H. Krug: The Lugau-Ölsnitzer coal field . In: Yearbook for the mining and metallurgical industry of Saxony . Freiberg 1920.
- Rolf Vogel : The Lugau – Oelsnitzer coal field . Ed .: Förderverein Bergbaumuseum Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. e. V. Hohenstein – Ernstthal 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr.-Ing. Waldemar May, Prof. Dr. Otto Stutzer , Dr.-Ing. Eckardt: 75 years of joint work by the Saxon hard coal mines . Overview of the geological structure of the Ore Mountains hard coal basin. Ed .: District group Saxony of the Zwickau hard coal mining section. Zwickau June 1936, p. 220 .
- ↑ Mining Museum welcomes millionth visitor . In: Free Press . Stollberger newspaper. February 28, 2015, p. 11 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 31 " N , 12 ° 43 ′ 46.7" E