Colliery Bergmannsglück

Colliery Bergmannsglück
	General information about the mine
	; Bergmannsglück Gelsenkirchen-Buer colliery, 1959
	Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1905
End of operation	1961
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 36 '14.3 " N , 7 ° 2' 9.3" E Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '14.3 " N , 7 ° 2' 9.3" E
	Location Bergmannsglück colliery
Location	Hassel
local community	Gelsenkirchen
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Gelsenkirchen
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The bill Bergmannsglück is a former coal mine in Gelsenkirchen .

history

The Prussian state acquired at the beginning of the 20th century several large mining concessions in the area of the northern Ruhr area and southern Münsterland. The mine property was administered by the Royal Mining Directorate Recklinghausen . This was headed from 1905 in personal union with Hibernia AG , the majority of which was owned by the state.

In 1902, the holdings of the mining fields under Buer and Westerholt were consolidated to form the Buer coal mine . In 1903, work began on sinking the Bergmannsglück 1/2 double shaft north of Buer , which went into operation in 1905. It was equipped with identical German strut frames with double funding.

In 1905 the fiscal (i.e. state owned) mining field holdings were divided into mining inspections. The Buer coal mine became mining inspection 3 .

In 1907, the sinking of the independent Westerholt mine shaft was started in the eastern part of the field of Mining Inspection 3 , because the Prussian state wanted to equip every fiscal mining inspection with two conveyor systems (see Scholven and Rheinbaben collieries ).

In 1909 a coking plant was put into operation at Bergmanssglück 1/2 .

In 1925, Berginspektion 3 was renamed the Buer coal mine and the state mining directorate was transformed into Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen, the majority of which was taken over by Hibernia AG in 1927 . The Buer mine was split up into the independent mining mines Bergmannsglück and Westerholt.

The following global economic crisis led to rationalization measures on the part of Hibernia AG . In 1929 the Bergmannsglück coking plant was shut down in favor of the Westerholt coking plant.

However, since both shafts with an annual output of 1 million tonnes of fatty and gas coal were to be regarded as very efficient, a complete merger was refrained from. The sales crisis was overcome by working free shifts .

Towards the end of the Second World War , the Bergmannsglück 1/2 mine, which was now in the closed urban area of Gelsenkirchen-Buer , was very badly damaged. Funding had to be taken over by the neighboring Westerholt colliery until 1952 .

Shutdown

With the onset of the coal crisis at the end of the 1950s, Hibernia AG consolidated the promotion of the former fiscal systems into a few efficient mine systems. After a new central shaft had been sunk on Westerholt, Bergmannsglück and Westerholt were now completely merged.

In 1961 the mine Bergmannsglück was prepared from the promotion taken and operated only as an outer pit of the mine Westerholt.

Current condition

After the Bergmannsglück shafts were dropped in the 1970s and 1980s, the conveyor systems were completely demolished. Some outbuildings and gate buildings have been preserved. Today there is a central warehouse of HVG Grünflächenmanagement GmbH on the site . In addition, the houses on Bergmannsglückstrasse have been used artistically since the early 1980s. The underground draftsman Alfred Schmidt and the artist Werner Thiel lived and worked here .

The Hassel district park has been laid out on the site of the former coking plant since 2017 and is due to be completed in 2019.

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 im Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-78456994-3 .
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 .

Web links

Commons : Zeche Bergmannsglück - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ New life on Bergmansglück - Gelsenkirchen - lokalkompass.de. In: lokalkompass.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .

^ Frank Schwarz: Construction site tour of the Hassel district park . In: coal. The employee magazine of RAG Aktiengesellschaft , 2017, issue 8, p. 34.

[1] New life on Bergmansglück - Gelsenkirchen - lokalkompass.de. In: lokalkompass.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .