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General information about the mine
Funding / year up to approx. 20,000 t
Information about the mining company
Employees up to approx. 35
Start of operation 1775
End of operation 1891
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '39.6 "  N , 7 ° 18' 9.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '39.6 "  N , 7 ° 18' 9.4"  E
Billigkeit colliery (Regional Association Ruhr)
Bill cheap
Location bill cheap
Location Heven
local community Witten
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Billigkeit colliery was a coal mine in Heven , which was in operation from 1775 to 1891. The mine was on Am Steinberg Street . It belonged to the mines of Baron von Elversfeld.

history

The beginnings

Although the mine was probably already in operation in 1750, the dismantling did not officially begin until 1775. On October 26, 1766, Baron August von Elverfeldt asked for the minefield . On December 4, 1790 the mining rights were awarded . In 1784 one had tonnlägiger shaft and a tunnel in operation. On June 17 of that year, the mine was by the head of the Brandenburg district mining office, the Baron von Stein traveled . At that time the mine had problems with the basic route, the route was compressed and had to be reworked. Vom Stein provided information about the condition and performance of the mine in his protocol. He instructed the mine shift supervisor to have trips built into the shaft .

The further operation until the takeover

In 1793 the Billigkeit colliery was merged with the Urbanus , Compier and Wilde Mann unions . A contract was signed for the creation of the Society's Erbstollen . This tunnel, for which one wanted to apply for the granting of the hereditary tunnel right , should enable a deeper water solution . The mine was out of service from 1796 to 1799. In 1800 a new shaft was sunk from February to June . On October 30, 1818, a "minor" (i.e., minor) mining began. In February 1819 the mine was closed. Some 40 years later, in 1863, that was mine field of mine Helene slammed, now the contract for the solution possessed the field and coal production. On October 31, 1886, the mine was deregistered and in 1887 it was foreclosed. In 1889 the plant was put back into operation, which took place under its own management despite the takeover by the United Helene-Nachtigall colliery in 1890 until the end of 1890. In the second half of 1891 the mine was completely taken over by the United Helene-Nachtigall colliery .

Promotion and workforce

The colliery's annual production in 1867 was around 18,000 tons. In 1869 the production sank to 14,840 tons, in 1878 with ten miners 5,621 tons were extracted. From 1878 the production increased again, 6,328 tons of hard coal were extracted with twelve miners. In 1880 the production was slightly over 6000 tons of hard coal, this production was provided with twelve employees. This was followed by a further increase in production until 1885, when 12,363 tons of hard coal were extracted with 26 miners. In 1886 the production sank again, with 13 miners 6,726 tons were extracted by October 31st. In the year it was put back into operation (1889), production was 1,205 tons with just two miners. After the takeover by the United Helene-Nachtigall colliery in 1891, a total of 15,000 tonnes were mined with 35 employees.

What is left

Near the former mine site there is no evidence of mining activity, if one of the little to the east running Halden road once apart. However, there are indirect indications of local mining activity: In the forest there are hills that suggest major ground movements; a valley-like incision could be a pinge , or the former access to the now buried tunnel mouth hole . You come across bits of coal under the brush.

The valley is used as a garbage dump.

  • The site of the Billigkeit colliery today

  • Terrain changes in the forest

  • Remains of a wooden structure in the floor

  • Look into the 'valley',

  • overgrown by the forest.

  • Coal crumbs - remains of a former mine

The images correspond to the course from east to west (51.444719-7.303511 / 51.442217-7.302200)

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 Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. 1st edition. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .
  3. ↑ 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 .

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