Amalia colliery

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Amalia colliery
General information about the mine
other names Amalie colliery
Funding / year Max. 298,407 t
Information about the mining company
Employees up to 1300
Start of operation 1885
End of operation 1928
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 30 '2.3 "  N , 7 ° 18' 20.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '2.3 "  N , 7 ° 18' 20.3"  E
Amalia Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Amalia colliery
Location Amalia colliery
Location Werne
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Amalia colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Werne district of Bochum . The mine was also known as the Amalie colliery . The mine is not identical to the Amalie colliery in Essen-Altendorf. The mine was part of the southern Bochum mining area . The mining area of coal mine Amalia was north of marl border .

history

The beginnings

On January 17, 1854, the prospect of the Amalia field was introduced. On February 20, 1855, the quarter field Amalia was awarded . On October 31 of the following year, the field was taken over by Harpener Bergbau AG . The sinking work for the first shaft began in 1873. The well was 1400 meters north of Shaft Jacob in the field of mine Heinrich Gustav stated . In 1875 there were strong water inflows. That same year, the shaft reached at a depth the 80 meter carbon . The following year, the sinking operation was at a depth of 81 meters due to poor economic situation deferred . The shaft drained shortly afterwards. In 1883, the sinking operation was resumed by the shaft Amalia again initially gesümpft was. In the same year the shaft was penetrated by Heinrich Gustav's first level at a depth of 111 meters (+1 m above sea ​​level ) . The shaft was then put into operation as a weather shaft for the Jacob shaft. In 1884 the excavation work resumed and the Amalia shaft was sunk deeper. In 1885 the second level was set at a depth of 191 meters (−80 m above sea level).

The opening of the connecting line to Langendreer station of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) in 1883 gave access to the public rail network.

Operation of the mine

Yet in 1885 the shaft Amalia was taken as a production well in operation and the promotion was taken. Initially, the Arnold and Jacob shafts and the water drainage of the Heinrich Gustav colliery were used for the independent Amalia colliery. In the same year, the construction of a coking plant was started on the company premises to process the extracted coal . The coking plant was put into operation on January 1st, 1886. A briquette factory was built that same year . The following year the Sentinel field was taken over. This field had a size of one square kilometer and had previously been acquired by Harpener Bergbau-AG. On January 2, 1891, there was a firedamp explosion on Amalia , killing seven miners . In 1892, the sinking work for a separate weather shaft began. In the same year, the third level was put into operation via a blind shaft at a depth of 256 meters (−145 m above sea level). At that time, the construction site comprised the Sentinel field and parts of the Amalia, Hofesaat, Selinde and Wehrhahn fields. In 1893 the first level of the weather shaft penetrated. In the same year there was a Schlagwetterexplosion, in this mine disaster lost seven miners their lives.

In 1894, the excavation work on the Amalia shaft was resumed and the shaft was sunk deeper to the third level. In addition, the sinking work on the weather shaft was resumed and the shaft was sunk deeper. In the following year, the weather shaft was sunk to the third level. In 1896, the sinking work on the weather shaft was continued. In the same year the Jacob field was taken over, which until then belonged to the Heinrich Gustav colliery. The Jacob shaft remained in the possession of Heinrich Gustav. In 1897, the Helene and President seams were cut through with the northern main cross passage. With the main cross passage in the Jacob field, the III. Drive through the Ernestine and Röttgersbank seams on the south wing of the saddle. In 1898, the sinking work for a second weather shaft began. Weather shaft 1 was sunk to a depth of 77 meters below the third level. In the same year, the weather shaft 1 reached the 4th level at a depth of 366 meters (−255 m above sea level). This sole was previously owned by the colliery Heinrich Gustav ascended Service. In the same year, a total of eleven seams were in operation at the Amalia colliery , of which seven were seams with tailings , the other four seams were made of pure coal. The thickness of the seams was between 0.8 and 2.75 meters, in the case of the seam with sediment, the thickness of the sediment was between 0.1 and 0.6 meters. In the year 1899 the weather shaft 2 up to the 2nd level was put into operation.

The last few years

In 1902 the breakthrough occurred underground with the Neu-Iserlohn colliery . In November 1924 the coking plant was shut down. In 1925, a weather shaft and the Amalia shaft were in operation up to the fourth level. Until the end of 1927 the mine remained as an independent shaft system. On January 1, 1928, the colliery became part of the Heinrich Gustav colliery . The daytime facilities were shut down. The Amalia site was retained as a material and weather shaft until 1969, when it was finally shut down.

Promotion and workforce

The first workforce at the mine dates back to 1876, in that year 46 people were employed at the mine. The first production figures of the mine come from the year 1886, in that year with 434 employees around 149,000 tons of hard coal were produced . In 1890 almost 180,000 tons of hard coal had already been mined. In 1895 the production rose to 225,850 tons, the workforce was 968 employees. In 1900, around 298,000 tons of hard coal were extracted, and the workforce in that year was 1,300. In 1905 the production sank to 195,266 tons of hard coal, the workforce was 1091 employees. In 1895 the production increased to 245,561 tons, the workforce was 1017 employees. The maximum funding was provided in 1913. This year, 298,407 tons of hard coal were mined with 1123 employees. In 1920, 238,706 tons of hard coal were extracted. The workforce this year was 1271. In 1925, 948 employees produced 207,727 tons of hard coal. In 1927, 1035 people were still employed at the mine; 288,810 tons of hard coal were extracted. These are the last known sponsorship and workforce figures.

Current condition

The entrance to the mine is on Nörenbergstrasse. Only the entrance building is left. Workshops and the magazine were demolished in 2008. The two shafts are equipped with protego covers (as of 2012). In the meantime, the daytime facilities have been torn down and there is nothing left, apart from the two protego hoods over the shafts. (As of 2012) On September 14, 2013, the old bridge of the Amalia colliery railway over the A40 motorway, which was no longer required, was demolished.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144) 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ministry of Trade and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Volume forty-sixth, published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1898
  3. ^ A b c d e Karl Heinz Bader, Karl Röttger, Manfred Prante: 250 years of coal mining in the Brandenburg region. A contribution to the history of mining, the mining administration and the city of Bochum. Study publisher Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1987, ISBN 3-88339-590-0 , p. 149.
  4. ^ Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957
  5. ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 404 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  7. ^ Association for Mining Interests in the Upper Mining District Dortmund: The development of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian hard coal mining in the second half of the 19th century. Julius Springer's publishing bookstore, Berlin 1902
  8. ↑ Various sources, e.g. B. Stadtspiegel Bochum, September 14, 2013, title page

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