Admiral colliery
| Admiral colliery | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Rheinische Stahlwerke | ||
| Start of operation | 1911 | ||
| End of operation | 1925 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 ′ 6 ″ N , 7 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ E | ||
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| Location | Wellinghofen | ||
| local community | Dortmund | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Dortmund | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Admiral colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Dortmund district of Wellinghofen .
The Admiral union, founded in 1910, emerged from the Niederhofen IV and Nikolaus collieries in the Hörde district. The new pit was designed as a double shaft system, it was located on today's "Limburger Postweg" road.
Mining history
Production began in 1911. In 1914 a coking plant was put into operation on the site of the colliery . It was shut down again after a year, but reopened in 1920.
In 1918, the Norddeutsche Hütte Bremen acquired 850 Kuxen of the mine and thus took over the majority of the company. A year later, the Stumm brothers ( owners of the Ministers Achenbach colliery in Brambauer ) took over the majority of shares in the Norddeutsche Hütte, and the shares in the Admiral colliery were passed on to a bank consortium . This small mine is a classic example of an object of speculation within the heavy industry of the early 20th century.
In 1920 the Admiral union acquired the Clarenberg , Bickefeld and Elisabeth mine fields . In 1921, the Admiral colliery is incorporated into the Westfälische Bergbau- und Kohlenverwertungs-AG Hörde , to which the Gottessegen colliery also belonged. In 1924, over 1,000 employees pulled 130,000 t of coal from the mine.
The Admiral colliery was closed in 1925, as was the case with most of the mines in the Hörde area . The land rights to the mine were sold to the Rheinische Stahlwerke . The pit was flooded and most of the daytime facilities demolished. At that time the colliery had its own rail connection that reached to the west of today's open-air swimming pool.
Current condition
Today the Admiralsplatz (including the soccer field of FC Wellinghofen) in the Wellinghofen district is reminiscent of the former Admiral colliery. Residential buildings and an urban youth center can be found on the site of the colliery. The former machine house, the machine hall and the brand room on the colliery site are still in good condition, on the Limburger Postweg. An industrial company is currently active here.
Former brand parlor
literature
- Karl Heinz Schlutz: The Admiral colliery: a mine in the south of Dortmund 1912 - 1925 . Ed .: Friends of Mining Historic Sites Ruhrrevier eV, Dortmund Working Group. 1st edition. Klartext, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-491-7 , p. 106 .
- Wilhelm & Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr . 4th edition. Königstein im Taunus 1995, p. 187 .