Baldur colliery
| Baldur colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / year | 530,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 1600 | ||
| Start of operation | 1911 | ||
| End of operation | 1931 | ||
| Successor use | Merged with the neighboring mine, Fürst Leopold | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 40 '24 " N , 6 ° 56' 59" E | ||
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| Location | Holsterhausen | ||
| local community | Dorsten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Recklinghausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Baldur was a coal - mine in Dorsten . It was located in the district of Holsterhausen north of the Lippe .
history
At the end of the 19th century , donors from Trier founded the Trier trade union . This acquired mine field property in the area of the cities of Dorsten and Bockum-Hövel . The Trier I trade union was founded in Dorsten, which began in 1899 with the sinking of a double shaft system north of the Lippe .
However, this work had to be discontinued after a short time due to excessive flowing sand ingress.
In 1904, Bergwerksgesellschaft Trier mbH was founded with its headquarters in Hamm, which tackled the extensive development of the mine fields. The Radbod colliery emerged from the consolidated Trier III trade union in Bockum-Hövel . In Dorsten, the Trier I trade union was consolidated with the pit field of the Trier II trade union that had been acquired .
In 1906, the new sinking of a double shaft system began. In order to be able to keep the ingress of water and flowing sand under control, the freezing process was used in these shafts . The mine was christened the Baldur mine - after the name of the sun god from Germanic mythology.
After the low-lying hard coal mountains had been reached at a depth of over 500 meters , coal mining was started in 1911. The construction of factory colonies was also started.
Due to the great mining accident of 1908 at the Radbod colliery , the operating company of the Trier trade unions was constantly in an economically very tense situation.
1,919 mining concessions were to pit field of re- mining Baldur hinzugemutet . From 1920 there was a cooperation agreement between the Trier trade union (Trier GmbH), the Cologne-Neu-Essen mining association and Hoesch AG .
Shutdown
Due to the turbulent economic times of inflation and the global economic crisis , the Trier trade union was completely taken over by Hoesch AG. The Baldur colliery , which produced 530,000 tons of coal with 1,600 employees, was to be linked to the neighboring Prince Leopold colliery in the long term .
This association took place in 1931 with the abandonment of the Baldur 1/2 mining location . The shafts were retained and continued as the outdoor facility of the now-created Fürst Leopold-Baldur colliery .
Current condition
The daytime facilities have already been reduced in size when they were shut down. After the Baldur 2 shaft was backfilled , the headframe of the Baldur 1 shaft was also replaced by a small conveyor system. This has also been dismantled since the Baldur 1 shaft was dropped in 2002.
literature
- Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines. (= The Blue Books ). 6th edition, expanded to include an excursus according to p. 216 and updated in parts relating to energy policy. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein i. Ts. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 (after the 5th, completely revised and expanded edition 2003, post-processing 2002: Christiane Syré, final editing 2007 Hans-Curt Köster).
- Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .