Blücher I colliery
| Blücher I colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Successor use | Nordstern colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '40 " N , 7 ° 1' 52" E | ||
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| Location | Gelsenkirchen-Horst | ||
| local community | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Blücher I colliery is a former hard coal mine in Gelsenkirchen-Horst . The name of the colliery is presumably the Prussian General Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher . Nothing more is known about the size of the mine field .
Mining history
After several successful wells had been sunk in the fields Blücher I to Blücher IV and Neu Horst I , in 1855 the mining authority received the approval for the corresponding mine fields. In 1856 the assumption was made for the fields Blücher V , Neu Horst II and Neu Horst III . In 1857 the prospect for the Neu Horst V mine field took place . In the same year the first shaft in the Blücher III field was sunk . The shaft was abandoned in the following year because it had encountered flowing sand at a depth of eleven meters . In 1858 work began on sinking a shaft in the Blücher I field. This shaft was located 137 meters south of the shaft that had already been dropped . The new shaft was called the Blücher I shaft .
In 1859 there were strong water inflows in the shaft. The water inflows were 40 cubic feet per minute. The shaft was provided with a watertight wall . In addition, the fields Blucher I were to Blucher IV this year awarded . The sinking work was stopped in 1860 at a depth of 96 meters, the reasons for this were lack of money and the sinking of the shaft. In 1861 the fields Neu Horst I to III and the field Neu Horst V were awarded. In 1864, the Blücher I to V fields were consolidated to form the Essen-Arenberg colliery . The mine consolidated in this way was also called the Essen-Arenberg colliery from this point in time . In the following year, the Blücher I shaft was swamped . In 1866 the Essen-Arenberg field was renamed to Zeche Nordstern .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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 .
- ↑ a b c headframes in mining. Blücher (accessed February 3, 2012).
- ↑ Ministry of Commerce and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Eighth volume, published by the royal and secret Ober-Hofdruckerei (R. Decker), Berlin 1860.