Windberg shaft
| Windberg shaft | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Mining technology | Longwall mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Potschappler Aktienverein | ||
| Start of operation | 1845 | ||
| End of operation | 1881 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Mightiness | 5.10 m | ||
| Greatest depth | 452 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '44.5 " N , 13 ° 39' 58.4" E | ||
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| Location | Kleinburgk | ||
| local community | Freital | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains. | ||
| country | Free State of Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
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The Windbergschacht was a coal mine of the Potschappler Aktienverein . The shaft was located in the central part of the hard coal deposit of the Döhlen basin on Kleinburgker Flur. The preserved hut on the Windberg plateau is a cultural monument of the city of Freital .
history
The Potschappler Aktienverein started digging the shaft in 1845 . The shaft, set at 340 m above sea level, reached a depth of 452 meters. In 1847 the first seam was intersected with a thickness of 5.10 meters at 404.40 meters. The depth was set at 412.30 meters. The steam hoisting machine with an output of 33 hp was delivered by Jacobiwerk AG Meißen in 1846 . It was a high-pressure machine with a balance and variable expansion, which also drove the pumps for the dewatering. On March 30, 1857, the connection of the shaft to the newly built Hänichen coal branch railway , which made it much easier to transport the coal, was put into operation. In 1860 there were 22 coal villages in operation and 112 miners employed.
On September 2, 1850, nine miners were killed in a firedamp explosion . Another three miners died in another firedamp explosion in 1868. The same thing happened on December 10, 1876, when 25 deaths were to be mourned. The victims found their final resting place in the new Döhlen cemetery .
In 1867 the mine was closed by the Oberbergamt in Freiberg between July 11th and October 3rd of the year due to the rotten shaft lining found during an inspection. During this time, however, the excavation of a deep cross passage and the further depth of the shaft to the final depth of 452 meters were continued. 1871 a rescue line was in the field of the pit on the mine field boundary Neuhoffnungsschachtes the Freiherrlich Burgker of coal and iron smelting works by beaten . On February 29, 1872, the final depth of the shaft was reached.
In 1878, after the stocks were exhausted, production was stopped. In 1881 the shaft was dropped and then backfilled. The daytime facilities were torn down shortly afterwards, with the exception of the hat house. It initially served as a forester's house, later (until 1975) also as a nursing home. In the 1980s it was used as a guest house for the city of Freital. Today it is used as an animal shelter .
In 1978, the shaft was kept safe by the Freital mountain rescue service .
literature
- Eberhard Gürtler, Klaus Gürtler: The hard coal mining in the Döhlen basin part 1 - shafts to the right of the Weißeritz , house of the homeland Freital, 1983
- Eberhard Gürtler, Klaus Gürtler: The hard coal mining in the Döhlen Basin, shafts left and right of the Weißeritz , house of the home Freital, 2000
- Hermann Credner: Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony , Royal Finance Ministry, Leipzig, 1892
- Wikisource: the Windbergschacht in the album of the Saxon industry , volume 2, p. 122. - Sources and full texts
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the steam engine at www.albert-gieseler.de
- ^ Jürgen Schubert: The Windbergbahn. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1993, ISBN 3-927587-18-4 , p. 13
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/geschichtederka00knobgoog#page/n310/mode/1up p. 311.
- ↑ Freital-Döhlen cemetery (miners' graves). (No longer available online.) In: MontE. Institute for Science and Technology History (IWTG) of the Technical University Freiberg, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 4, 2015 . ( 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.
