Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Knurów-Szczygłowice

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The Knurów-Szczygłowice mine (Polish: Kopalnia Węgla Kamiennego Knurów-Szczygłowice ; former name of Velsen-Schächte ) is an active hard coal mine in Knurów , Poland.

The mine, which until recently belonged to Kompania Węglowa SA (KWSA), was spun off from this group on August 1, 2014 and added to Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa . At the time of the takeover, 5,619 people were working in the composite mine, 4,255 of them underground. Today the mine is entitled to 59.79 km², of which 38.49 km² in the Knurów mining area and 21.3 km² in the Szczygłowice area. The daily production is currently 15,000 t of steam coal per day.

East mine with Paweł and Jan

history

KWK Knurów

The fields of the hard coal mine near Knurów ( Lage ) were awarded in the 1880s and cover an area of ​​24.0 km². This fiscal mine opened its doors on May 15, 1903 by bringing down the Velsen I mine; On December 19 of the same year, the sinking of the Velsen II shaft began. In 1905 both reached a depth of 462 meters. The first level was set at 350 meters, the second level at 462 meters. The main initiator for the establishment was Gustav von Velsen (1847-1923), Ministerialdirektor in the department for mining in Berlin.

The rich coal seams were hit at a depth of 214 m. In 1908 the workforce consisted of 902 employees and produced 70,600 tons of coal. The shafts I and II of the east field - originally called Velsen I and II - were later named Peter / Piotr and Paul / Paweł.

Foch mine I / II

The western field of the mine ( Lage ) was opened up by the shafts Foch I and II, Foch I with headframe, Foch II with concrete tower. The name was given in honor of the French Marshal Ferdinand Foch , as the French-Polish operating company Skarboferm ( Société Fermiére des Mines Fiscale de l'Etat Polonais en Haute Silésie ) continued to run the former Prussian state-owned companies in Eastern Upper Silesia after the division of Upper Silesia from 1922. Later, Schacht Jan with a concrete headframe was added in Ostfeld.

Leased from Skarboferm for 36 years from 1921, the mine belonged to the Reichswerke Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation from November 1939 , although Preussag saw itself as the legal successor to the former Prussian Fiskalzechen. During this time it was administered by Group 1 (Katowice) of the Upper Silesian Mining Administration of the HGW together with Oehringen and the Preussengrube . At the end of the war, the German management hurriedly left the facility.

Aniolki weather shaft

With the help of some of the remaining employees, funding was resumed in January 1945. In the first months after the war, the daily production did not exceed 1,300 tons of coal, but by 1948 the mine was already producing more than a million tons of coal.

The West construction site was shut down in 2011 and all daytime facilities except for the tower (Foch II) and headframe (Foch I) with the shaft hall were demolished. The headframe of the Peter / Piotr shaft in the east field was also torn down; his rope sheaves can be seen today in Haus Oberschlesien in Ratingen-Hösel. In 2010 it was merged with Szczygłowice to form the Knurów-Szczygłowice joint mine.

CHP Szczygłowice

Work on the construction of the mine in the southwest of Knurów ( Lage ) began in 1957. This was intended to open up deposits that were located under the town of Czerwionka-Leszczyny and the municipality of Pilchowice. At the same time, the new mine should also develop the southern deposits of Knurów.

Initially an independent company, from 1993 the mine belonged to the Association of the Coal Industry of Gliwice (Gliwickie Zjednoczenie Przemysłu Węglkowa), from February 1, 2003 to the KWSA Group.

Doppelbock Szczygłowice II

present

Today the mine has the following shafts:

Knurów :

  • Concrete tower with ski lift over the Jan shaft
  • Headframe for rope travel and material transport over the Paweł shaft
  • Aniolki weather shaft right next to the A1 motorway
  • Krywald weather shaft in the eponymous district of Knurów
  • Weather shaft VI in the south field

Szczygłowice

  • Double jacks above shafts I and II
  • Concrete tower over shaft III

Funding figures

1913: 583,649 t; 1938: 616,512 t; 1970: 2.79 million t; 1979: 4.78 million t

Remarks

  1. ↑ see https://www.jsw.pl/o-nas/zaklady/knurow-szczyglowice/o-zakladzie/ (last accessed on December 10, 2015)

literature

  • Jerzy Jaros. Słownik historyczny kopalń węgla na ziemiach polskich . Śląski Instytut Naukowy, Katowice 1984. ISBN 83-00-00648-6 .
  • Yearbook for the Upper Mining District Wroclaw. Phoenix Publishing House. Katowice, Breslau, Berlin. 1913. Digitized version at http://www.dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/publication?id=3349&tab=3 before (last accessed on May 5, 2015)
  • Kurt König: The coal mining in Upper Silesia from 1945–1955. Scientific contributions to the history and regional studies of Eastern Central Europe. Published by the Johann Gottfried Herder Institute. Marburg 1958.
  • Zygfryd Piątek. Coal mining in Poland in the interwar period 1918 to 1939. In: Der Anschnitt 1/2000. 52nd year.

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