Trass (brown coal)
Trass was the name for brown coal that was extracted in the Bensberg ore district .
history
In the Bergisch Gladbach area , in the area of the Paffrath Kalkmulde, lime was burned with the lignite found there . They were called Trass or Taraß, Tyraß, Turf and Turftraß. This designation has often led to misunderstandings, because elsewhere in common parlance under Trass one understands a volcanic tuff that is extracted in the vicinity of the Laacher See . It was not until 1800 that the name lignite came up.
The term trass has survived in the vernacular for a long time. One did not talk, as it would have been right, of lignite mining or lignite mines , but of trass pits . Until the 1980s, there was a lake adjacent to the Zanders paper mill to the south , which was called Zanders' Traßkuhl (Trasskaule). These were pings from several former lignite mines.
Reminiscences
Even today, two street names in Bergisch Gladbach with the designations Alter Traßweg and Neuer Traßweg in the catchment area of the former Consolidation Alfred mine are reminiscent of the former lignite mining.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Leonhard Brenner : The history of the lime distillery in Bergisch Gladbach , Gummersbach 1992, ISBN 3-88265-171-7
- ↑ Hans Leonhard Brenner, p. 20ff.
- ^ Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Hans-Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes , Volume 3, The pits in the Paffrather Kalkmulde . Bergisch Gladbach 2006, pp. 35f., ISBN 3-932326-49-0 .
- ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5