Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine
| Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1988 | ||
| End of operation | 1992 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 34 '27.5 " N , 13 ° 47' 26.3" E | ||
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| formerly county Finsterwalde , district Senftenberg , Cottbus district ( NUTS 3 ) | today: Elbe-Elster district, OSL district, Brandenburg | ||
| country | country Brandenburg | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Lusatian lignite mining area | ||
The Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine was an open-cast lignite mine in the Lausitz lignite district in what is now southern Brandenburg , which existed from 1988 to 1992. The open pit was located south of the community of Lichterfeld in the area of today's Bergheider See . It was named after the community of Klettwitz in what is now the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district.
history
The Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine was opened in 1988. According to the plans, it was to replace the Klettwitz open-cast mine, which was being phased out . It was mainly intended to ensure the supply of raw coal to the briquette factories of the Lauchhammer lignite refining plant , BVL for short, and a partial supply of the briquette factories in Brieske and Senftenberg . An F60 conveyor bridge was used in conjunction with two Es 3750 bucket chain excavators.
After the dewatering of the planned open pit mine had already started in 1981 , the excavation of an outcrop ditch was started in 1984. The first raw coal was extracted in Klettwitz-Nord as early as 1988. To the south of Lichterfeld, the assembly area for the opencast mining technology was set up with a conveyor bridge and bucket chain excavators. An Es 1500 bucket chain excavator, which was specially moved from the Meuro opencast mine, was used for the dredging of the rescue hawser . This work was completed in December 1990 and the conveyor bridge could be converted into the deployment rope after its implementation. The rescue rope was about 28 meters lower than the assembly area. In February 1991, the F 60 started work together with initially only one Es 3750 bucket chain excavator. In May of the same year the second bucket chain excavator followed. Upstream of the conveyor bridge was a pre-cut operation with belt conveyor. Two bucket wheel excavators of the type SRs 1000 and two bucket chain excavators ERs 710 were used to extract the actual raw coal .
At the end of 1991 the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine and all operating departments were fully operational. As a result of the turnaround , however, the briquette factories and power plants in the Lauchhammer area were closed and the demand for raw coal fell dramatically. In the course of 1992 all operational departments of the opencast mine were shut down. The conveyor bridge was then shut down in June 1992. In December 1992, the last coal was finally mined in the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine.
Overburden conveyor bridge of the opencast mine
| The overburden conveyor bridge in use from the Klettwitz opencast mine | ||||
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| Type | Locations | business | Overburden movement | Remarks |
| Type F 60, No. 36 | Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine | 1991-1992 | 27.4 million m³ | Shutdown on June 30, 1992 |
Reuse
The F 60 conveyor bridge used in the opencast mine was removed from the opencast mine in 2000 and parked near the village of Lichterfeld. As a visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60 , it became a project of the international building exhibition Fürst-Pückler-Land and today serves as a reminder and processing of the long mining history in the region. The site of the visitor mine is also the venue for various concerts and festivals .
The former open-cast mine south of the current location has been flooded since then. This is where the Bergheider See , which is named after the town of Bergheide , which fell victim to the opencast mine , is being built. It is part of the Lusatian Lakeland .
Bergheider See (2015)
Visitor center of the visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60.
Track moving machine
The visitor mine from the air.
Resettled localities
In the course of lignite mining in the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine, the two localities Bergheide (1987/88) and Klingmühl (1989) were excavated and the inhabitants of these villages were relocated.
Web links
- Website of the visitor mine overburden conveyor bridge F60
- The Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine on www.ostkohle.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Author collective: Mining history in the Lauchhammer district . Ed .: Traditionsverein Braunkohle Lauchhammer eV Lauchhammer 2003, p. 102-104 .
- ↑ a b c The Klettwitz opencast mine in the online project www.ostkohle.de , accessed on August 19, 2017
- ↑ Events> Shows / Concerts on the website of the visitor mine F60, accessed on August 19, 2017