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Colliery better luck
General information about the mine
Information about the mining company
Start of operation before 1797
End of operation 1825
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '3.2 "  N , 7 ° 9' 6.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '3.2 "  N , 7 ° 9' 6.5"  E
Besserglück colliery (regional association Ruhr)
Colliery better luck
Location Besserglück colliery
Location Linden trees
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Besserglück colliery was a hard coal mine in the Linden district of Bochum . The mine was already before the award of the mining area in operation. The Besserglück colliery was part of the Dahlhausen mining district .

Mining history

On December 16, 1797 the mining field was awarded and in December 1805 the mine was officially put into operation. In 1806, daytime operation and shaft 1 were in operation. In addition, an hereditary tunnel was excavated in which there was a 50 Lachter- long towing track . The towing line reached as far as the coal store on the Ruhr. The award of the fairness to the tunnel is documented for the year 1817. Mining and mining between 1810 and 1813. In 1813 there was a partial consolidation into United Besserglück & Glückssonne. From 1815 the mine was in operation again. In 1824 the mining took place in the area of ​​the Johann shaft. On March 9 of the same year, the square was awarded . Coal continued to be mined until August 1825, and the mine was initially closed in August. The length field was awarded on November 22nd, 1857 . In the following year, it was consolidated into the United Dahlhauser Tiefbau colliery .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Joachim Huske : The coal mine 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. The early mining of the Ruhr (last accessed on November 5, 2012).
  3. a b Ministry of Commerce and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Seventh volume, published by the royal and secret Ober-Hofdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1859.