Alstaden colliery
| Alstaden colliery | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1859 | ||
| End of operation | 1972 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '25 " N , 6 ° 49' 33" E | ||
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| Location | Alstaden | ||
| local community | Oberhausen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Oberhausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Alstaden was a coal - mine in the southern city of Oberhausen in the district Alstaden .
history
Around 1850, several drilling companies carried out test drillings for hard coal deposits in the Lipper Heide . During this time, a larger consortium founded the mining trade union of the Concordia colliery and began to sink the first shaft . In the southern area around the village of Alstaden , a smaller consortium had found what they were looking for. This founded the Mülheimer Bergbau-KG Albert de Gruyter & Co. in 1854 .
In 1855 the first shaft was sunk under the name Swalmius . After difficult sinking work (strong water inflows from the Ruhr ) the shaft was put into operation in 1859 and renamed Alstaden 1 . The shaft was equipped with a Malakow tower as a conveyor.
Gradually the colliery developed economically. In 1870, one kilometer west of shaft 1, shaft 2 was tackled. Here, too, the sinking work turned out to be very time-consuming, as water ingress caused interruptions time and again. Shaft 2 went into operation in 1881. As well as bay 1 he received over the Malakowtürmen drawn iron head frames .
Since it has been particularly Tray 1 affected by water leaks again in operation (as in 1872 and 1890), the operating company shifted the brunt of the promotion on pit 2. After transformation of the old partnership in the Alstaden Actiengesellschaft for mining were taken comprehensive summary measures. Shaft 2 was expanded into a central conveyor system and in 1907 received a two-storey strut frame as a new conveyor system. Shaft 1 was shut down for extraction and only used as a weather shaft . In 1904, Alstaden AG für Bergbau was taken over by Hibernia AG.
The very extensive mine field , which reached as far as Speldorf in the south , only contained minable reserves of anthracite coal in the northern part . Because of this, in 1927 the colliery was assigned a lease field from the Concordia colliery for further exploration.
1931 Well 2 was drilled, the new conveying shaft 3 on the premises, the 1933, the promotion recorded. Despite the relatively small headframe, this shaft was able to take over the entire mining of the colliery from 1936 onwards. Shaft 2 took over the rope travel and material feed.
The colliery was specialized because of the exclusive extraction of anthracite coal and the operation of a briquette factory as a domestic fire colliery . Therefore, it survived the coal crisis of the 1950s and 1960s at Hibernia AG and was incorporated into Bergbau AG Oberhausen of Ruhrkohle AG in 1968 .
Shutdown
Ruhrkohle AG carried out a reassessment of the deposits and future sales of domestic coal. This resulted in the decision to close the Alstaden colliery, which was implemented at the end of 1972.
Current condition
Today only individual parts of the building from shaft 1 of the “Alstaden” colliery are preserved.
The former director's villa and the porter's house in shaft 1 have been renovated and are used as residential buildings. The site of shaft 1, across from the Ruhrpark, is privately owned. The former horse stable and the machine house are still preserved here. The machine house has been extensively renovated and is rented out as an event room for business events, cultural events or private celebrations (barrier-free). The horse stable will be renovated in the near future with funding from the NRW Foundation and can then be rented.
There is a housing estate on the mining site of shaft 2/3. In a park within this settlement, the two filled shafts can still be recognized by their prototype hoods .
The Alstaden 2/3 mine dump was in the headlines in the 1980s due to spontaneous combustion , it was completely removed, and in its place there is now a biotope that merges into the Ruhr floodplains.
literature
- 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 3784569943