Aurora mine
| Aurora | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Aurora mine |
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| Funding / year | up to approx. 113,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to approx. 300 | ||
| Start of operation | 1939 | ||
| End of operation | 1965 | ||
| Successor use | Club house of the THW Hattingen | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 23 '36.9 " N , 7 ° 12' 23.3" E | ||
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| Location | Holthausen | ||
| local community | Hattingen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Aurora is a former coal mine in Holthausen in Hattingen that from 1939 until 1965. operation. A tunnel mine of the same name existed for a short time as early as 1828 , from which the mine field was taken over.
Important operational data
The sinking of the seigeren production well in the length field 'Aurora' began 1939. receiving the promotion in 1940. In 1943, the mine fields 'Eisleben' and 'Mill Bank' were of old Haase purchased. At the end of the war in 1945, 34 employees were working in the mine. In the following years, the mining was further expanded, so that the system was expanded in 1949 by a ton-long shaft. This was built 1.5 km east of the existing facility. At that time, 190 men were mining 67,000 tons of coal per year.
The old shaft was expanded into the main shaft in 1953 and was named "Eugen Eickmann". The colliery was expanded in 1956 by the "Gute Hope" shaft and in 1957 by the "Barbara" shaft with a depth of 400 meters. Further mine fields were bought. The workforce rose to 292 men by 1962 and the output to 113,000 tons of coal.
Production sank to 90,000 tons of coal in 1964. The Aurora colliery was shut down on March 27, 1965 due to inefficiency or applied to the rationalization association for the shutdown premium.
Reuse
In 1967, the Hattingen branch of the Technical Relief Organization rented the administration building and the horse stable as a base and club house.
The Aurora settlement was preserved, as was the street name Aurora Street .
source
- Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 1997 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 74). 2nd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 1998, ISBN 3-921533-62-7 .