Strutzberg tunnel
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '5.2 " N , 9 ° 23' 54" E
The Strutzberg tunnel is a former mine tunnel in the Deister near Bad Nenndorf in Lower Saxony . The last hard coal in the Deister district was mined here until it was closed in 1960 .
history
There is evidence of a coal mine in operation in the Deister as early as 1639. During the 19th century it came to rest many small mines to promote in to cm to 100 powerful coal seams encountered Wealdenkohle . As a result of takeovers, the mining operations and concessions in the north-west of the Deister between Egestorf and Bantorf came into state ownership and were combined to form the Preussag Barsinghausen coal mine . In the early 1950s, the mine operated four production shafts in the communities of Barsinghausen and Großgoltern in what was then the district of Hanover. Some old tunnels, like the Barsinghausen monastery tunnel, were only used for weather control .
On the Strutzberg in the north-west of the Deister, the border between the Grafschaft Schaumburg district and the Hanover district, today that of the Schaumburg district with the Hanover region , ran roughly along the eastern edge of the forest. On the Hanover side, hard coal had already been mined here in the Carlschacht sunk in 1856. This belonged to the Antonie colliery in Bantorf, which was taken over in 1907 and closed in 1928 by the Barsinghausen coal mine due to lack of profitability. In the Deister, in the area of Schaumburg, a refuge was built at the Hessian spring in 1895 , which was expanded into the Mooshütte forest restaurant in the following decades . Presumably as a result of the Bantorf mining, the spring largely dried up in the 1930s.
Coal mining near the Mooshütte
After the Second World War , the demand for hard coal increased significantly in the early 1950s. As part of emergency mining , the Mooshütte tunnel was driven north of the Mooshütte in 1951 . ▼
On January 2, 1952, work began in the finally 202 m long Strutzberg tunnel south of the Mooshütte on the eastern slope of the Strutzberg ( 198 m above sea level ) . The tunnels were used to mine residual coal pillars .
About 70 miners were employed in both tunnels. The coal of the 50 cm thick seams was extracted by the miners with simple means and often lying down and loaded into trucks . One pit horse at a time pulled up to 12 carts out of the tunnel to a loading bunker . From here, trucks transported the coal.
The operating buildings ▼ of the gallery were on the site of the moss hut. The forest restaurant and the mining company arranged themselves in close proximity. The mining company provided electricity and telephone connections, a stable for the landlord's cows was integrated into the mine building and the miners came to the moss hut after the end of their shift. Pit horses and tunnels were popular photo opportunities for day trippers and spa guests from Bad Nenndorf.
After the production in the Mooshüttestollen had already been stopped in 1954, it was decided in 1955 to close down the Barsinghausen hard coal mine due to insufficient profitability. Coal production from shafts I - III in Barsinghausen and shaft IV at Großgoltern ended in 1957. Preussag now managed the Strutzberg tunnel from Obernkirchen .
In 1960, around 1400 tons of coal were being mined in the Strutzberg tunnel every month. With the cessation of operations on June 30, 1960, hard coal production in the Deister coalfield ended after more than 300 years.
traces
After the tunnel operation was closed, the wash house was converted into a guest house, complete with steering room, bathroom, dressing room and pit lamp charging station. The building with stables, transformer and compressor station stood between this and the moss hut and was demolished. An outer wall of the loading bunker next to the wash house can still be seen.
The "Friends of the Klosterstollen Visitor Mine" provides information on the coal trail at the Mooshütte to the Strutzbergstollen and Mooshüttstollen with an information board ▼ . At the hut and at a fork in the road in the Deister, the Rieher “Glück auf” association has set up two trams as signposts.
Web links
Map with all coordinates: 
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Bantorf. www.barsinghausen.de, accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Chronicle of the Mooshütte. www.mooshuette.de, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Pit horses - "Buddy on four legs". Mining Museum Lindhorst, accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Information board Mooshütte-Stollen and Strutzbergstollen of the Förderverein Visitor Mine Klosterstollen Barsinghausen e. V. at the parking lot of the Mooshütte; seen on August 23, 2016
- ↑ a b THE DEISTER COAL MINING. (No longer available online.) Www.klosterstollen.de, 2012, archived from the original on August 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ The last colliery closed 50 years ago. www.schaumburger-wochenblatt.de, August 18, 2010, archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ a b A new reunion at the old tunnel. www.sn-online.de, July 6, 2010, accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ The "Deister Coal Paths". (pdf; 7.7 MB) Visitor mine Klosterstollen Barsinghausen, archived from the original on August 29, 2016 ; accessed on August 21, 2016 .