Ruppersdorf opencast mine
| Ruppersdorf opencast mine | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Opencast mine Marie III | ||
| Mining technology | Open pit | ||
| Funding / total | 1.3 to 2 million t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1944 | ||
| End of operation | 1957 | ||
| Successor use | Halde Ruppersdorf (overground dump) | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 4 '6.7 " N , 12 ° 21' 22.2" E | ||
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| local community | Meuselwitz , districts of Wintersdorf and Ruppersdorf | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Altenburger Land | ||
| country | Free State of Thuringia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Central German lignite district | ||
The Ruppersdorf opencast mine , also known as the Marie III opencast mine , was an opencast mine for the extraction of lignite northeast of Meuselwitz in the Altenburger Land . It was in operation between 1944 and 1957. Through him, the place of the same name Ruppersdorf disappeared from the map. The Ruppersdorf opencast mine was in the north of the Meuselwitz-Altenburg lignite district , which is part of the Central German lignite district.
Geographical location
The opencast mine was located northeast of Meuselwitz and north of Wintersdorf on today's border between Saxony and Thuringia . Directly to the west was the Phoenix- East opencast mine (1940–1963). Slightly to the east was the Haselbach opencast mine (1955–1977). The previous opencast mines Marie I (1908–1935) and Marie II (1935–1950) were located south of the village of Wintersdorf. Ruppersdorf, which was largely devastated, and its surviving district of Bosengröba belonged to the state of Saxony until 1952 and to the Borna district in the Leipzig district until 1957 . Only then did the reclassification into the Altenburg district take place , with which the area came to Thuringia in 1990.
history
In Meuselwitz Altenburger-coal mining area to the open pit Ruppersdorf and his two predecessors were, took off mid-19th century, a controlled degradation one of lignite. In civil engineering , the carbon was west of Winter Village and south of the Heukendorf / duty Village - Waltersdorf dismantled. The first opencast mines in the Wintersdorf / Ruppersdorf area were the Marie I (Waltersdorf) (1908-1935) and Neubraunshain (1908-1910) opencast mines near Waltersdorf. After the Marie I opencast mine was exhausted, the Marie II opencast mine (Wintersdorf) (1935–1950) was replaced by the Marie II opencast mine to the north . The three opencast mines destroyed the area between Waltersdorf in the south and Wintersdorf in the north. Some of them reached right up to the local locations. The “Marien-Grube” briquette factory existed in Heukendorf between 1902 and 1930 . The coal was initially transported via the Gaschwitz – Meuselwitz railway line, which opened in 1874 and where Wintersdorf had a train station. The Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen coal railway, opened in 1942, enabled the coal to be transported directly from the Waltersdorf open-cast mine to the briquette factories in Regis-Breitingen and Haselbach .
In 1944, d. H. Six years before the Marie II opencast mine (Wintersdorf) was closed, the Marie III opencast mine (Ruppersdorf) (1944–1957) (1944–1957) opened north of Wintersdorf , which was directly east of the Phoenix-Ost opencast mine (1940–1963). In contrast to Wintersdorf and Waltersdorf, which historically belonged to Saxony-Altenburg and from 1920 to Thuringia , Ruppersdorf and its district Bosengröba have always been Saxon. Between 1948 and 1950, 210 residents of Ruppersdorf were resettled. Between 1954 and 1957 a large part of Ruppersdorf was excavated and the municipality of Ruppersdorf was dissolved. The remainder, i.e. H. some houses on "Neue Straße" and the district of Bosengröba were incorporated into the municipality of Wintersdorf. Thus they changed from circle Borna in the district Altenburg and came to dissolution of the existing 1952-1990 district Leipzig to Thuringia. In the summer of 1957, coal production in the Ruppersdorf opencast mine was stopped as planned.
The Haselbach open- cast mine northeast of Ruppersdorf was opened in 1955 to continue supplying the surrounding briquette factories with coal . In the same year, the Ruppersdorf opencast mine also received workers and the overburden excavator 367 Es 425 to remove the overburden of the new area. Since the Haselbach opencast mine was initially lacking a spreader, the overburden was dumped into a rinsing dump in the Marie I opencast mine (Waltersdorf) until 1956, after which it was done using a spreader from the Witznitz opencast mine . The excavator 512 D 650 was brought from Ruppersdorf to Haselbach with great difficulty in 1956 for the second cut of the Haselbach opencast mine. Until inward tipping began in the Haselbach opencast mine in 1960, the overburden was moved to outer tipping. In addition, the overburden in the Marie I (Waltersdorf) and Marie II (Wintersdorf) opencast mines was tipped by flushing dumps and a dump and a high dump was created. From 1956, the remaining Ruppersdorf spoil and Haselbach material were tipped in the Ruppersdorf opencast mine. The spreader from the Marie II opencast mine (Wintersdorf) was used for this. Since at this point in time it was not possible to tipping the inside of the Haselbach opencast mine, the excess of soil led to an above-ground dump, the Ruppersdorf dump.
In the 1980s, the resumption of lignite mining was planned, but this was not carried out. The planned "open pit Meuselwitz" between Meuselwitz and Rositz would have u. a. some peripheral areas of the disused opencast mines Phönix-Ost , Marie I (Waltersdorf) and Marie II (Wintersdorf), as well as the locations Wintersdorf (partly), Heukendorf, mandatory village, Waltersdorf (partly) and Neubraunshain have to give way. The coal line Meuselwitz – Haselbach – Regis-Breitingen, known as the “Kammersforstbahn”, was converted into a museum railway after 1990.
| Name of the open pit | Operating time |
|---|---|
| Neubraunshain | 1908-1910 |
| Marie I (Waltersdorf) | 1908-1935 |
| Marie II (Wintersdorf) | 1935-1950 |
| Marie III (Ruppersdorf) | 1944-1957 |
Devastated localities
| places | Year of relocation / devastation | Residents | Open pit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruppersdorf , for the most part | 1948-1950 / 1954-1957 | 210 | Ruppersdorf (Marie III) |
See also
Web links
- Description of the Meuselwitz-Altenburger lignite district in a PDF document from the LMBV
- The Ruppersdorf opencast mine on www.devastiert.de
- Ruppersdorf on www.devastiert.de
- The Haselbach opencast mine in a PDF document from the LMBV
- The Haselbach opencast mine on www.schnaudertal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Railway nostalgia - Haselbach coal railway ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 6, 2010
- ↑ The Ruppersdorf opencast mine at www.devastiert.de ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ruppersdorf on gov.genealogy.net
- ↑ The Altenburg / Meuselwitz lignite district, LMBV publication
