Alma colliery
| Alma colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1872 | ||
| End of operation | Late 1970s | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 ′ 24 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
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| Location | Ückendorf | ||
| local community | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Alma was a coal - mine in Gelsenkirchen-Ückendorf .
history
In 1855 the Neu-Uerdingen union was founded . It comprised several pit fields named Alma . The Kux majority was in the hands of the French company Société des mines et fonderies du Rhin Détillieux et. Cie. The entire mine field extended mainly under the districts of Bulmke and Hüllen .
In 1870 at the Cologne-Minden railway started shaft 1 was in 1872 in promoting and served with a Malakowturm equipped.
In 1873 the union was renamed "Union Alma" because the Uerdingen investors left the company and the French shareholders remained ( the name "Alma" was probably derived from the battle of the Alma , which took place in 1854 - one year before the Company - on the Alma River not far from Sevastopol as part of the Crimean War between the French and the Russians ). From 1873 to 1874, near shaft 1, shaft 2 was sunk as a weather shaft .
On the initiative of Friedrich Grillo and Emil Kirdorf , the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG was founded in 1877 in order to bring together the pits in the Emschermulde under German management. The Alma colliery, together with the neighboring Rheinelbe colliery, was the first mine property to be taken over by the new company in 1878.
The two mines were combined and henceforth operated as the United Rheinelbe & Alma mine .
Current condition
The Alma shafts were in operation until the late 1970s.
The areas of the secondary shaft systems have been built over or completely cleared. The main shaft system Alma 1/2/5 was in the immediate vicinity of the Gelsenkirchen steelworks of Thyssen AG . After these shafts were closed, the Alma central coking plant was built on the site in 1927/28 and operated until 1963.
In the neighborhood, in Ückendorf , the Almastraße is still reminiscent of the mine.
The Alma Park indoor amusement park has been on the former colliery site since 2017, as the successor to the “Sportpark Gelsenkirchen” multi-sports hall that was built in 2013.
literature
- Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations, with the participation of the Ruhr Mining Societies . Glückauf, Essen 1957.
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3-7845-6994-3 .