Anna Catharina Colliery (Linden)

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Anna Catharina colliery
General information about the mine
other names Zeche Anna Catrien
Zeche Anna Catharina, Bochum district
Mining technology Underground mining
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1750
End of operation 1801
Successor use United Dickebaeckerbank & Anna Catharina colliery
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '39 "  N , 7 ° 11' 8.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '39 "  N , 7 ° 11' 8.8"  E
Zeche Anna Catharina (Regional Association Ruhr)
Anna Catharina colliery
Location Anna Catharina colliery
Location Linden trees
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Anna Catharina colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Linden district of Bochum . The mine was also known under the name Zeche Anna Catrien or Zeche Anna Catharina Amts Bochum .

history

The beginnings

In the mining area of the coal mine Anna Catharina 1750 was already before the year tunneling operated. The trades of the Nöckersbank colliery , Heinrich Wallbaum and consorts, came up with the plan in 1764 to also dismantle the secondary seam adjacent to their mine field . On January 18, 1771 was carried presumption of the mine field. The Landrichter Bölling and Heinrich Wallbaum acted as mother . In 1775 a cross-cutting tunnel was excavated. The excavation of the tunnel was made by the mine Nöcker bank in north to the seam Anna Catharina . The tunnel was located south of the Papenloh path . Then mining to the east and west began. On June 25, 1777 was carried out ceremony of the mine field. Operations started following the award.

The further operation

Extensive coal mining was carried out in the mine field soon after commissioning. The coal mined was suitable for use as forge coal. There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1780 and 1782. Because sales lack the mine in 1784 was temporarily in periods specified. On June 2 of 1784 the mine was by the head of the Mark Berg Revieres, the Baron von Stein , navigate . The Anna Catharina colliery was one of 63 mines that vom Stein visited on its eighteen-day journey through the Brandenburg mountain area. Vom Stein noted in his log that the mine was extracting good quality coal and was able to sell this coal to Cleve. He criticized the overproduction of the mine and gave this as the reason for the current standstill.

In 1792 the mine had one gallery and two shafts in operation. In 1796, mining took place at the Samuel No. 3 shaft . In 1798 the seam was already driven 580 meters in an easterly direction. The only known human figures are from 1799, there were an average of two per Häuer , tractors and Haspler as well as a shift supervisor employed at the mine. In 1800, the Samuel shaft was mined at No. 6 . On February 10, 1801, the Anna Catharina colliery was closed . In 1819, the carried consolidation with the bill thickness Baecker Bank for colliery thickness Baecker Bank & Anna Catharina .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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 d 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 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through the coal mining industry on the Ruhr. 1st edition. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .
  4. ↑ a b Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld: On the trail of coal mining. Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld-Verlag, Wetter-Wengern 1985, ISBN 3-922014-04-6 .

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