Bruchstrasse colliery
| Bruchstrasse colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 950,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to approx. 3000 | ||
| Start of operation | 1872 | ||
| End of operation | 1962 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '56.8 " N , 7 ° 19' 0.1" E | ||
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| Location | Langendreer | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Bruchstrasse colliery was a hard coal mine in Bochum- Langendreer .
history
The history of the mine begins with the Prussian Treasury and the excavation of a coal seam on the land of the Langendreer house . After the sale of all shares in the family Mühlensiefen came Kuxe to the union of mine Louise civil engineering . The colliery site was located directly north of the Langendreer station of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) on the Chaussee from Witten to Castrop (now the main street).
The first shaft was built in 1872 . On March 18, 1876, the connecting line went to Langendreer station of the RhE and in 1903 the rail connection to Langendreer-Nord station was added. A coking plant was operated from 1879 to 1945 .
In 1905 the land and the Langendreer house were bought. The highest production was achieved in 1929 with 952,030 tons with 2,919 employees.
The colliery was feared because of its firedamp and coal dust explosions . There have been at least 13 fatal accidents of this type. On April 20, 1941, a firedamp explosion killed 36 miners .
After the colliery was closed on March 30, 1962, which was announced on January 5, 1961 at the instigation of the city of Bochum for the settlement of the Opel plant - which has since closed again - shafts 2, 3 and 4 were filled ; In 1962, 2,604 employees worked on the mine. In the same year, the Adam Opel AG works Bochum II / III were built on the company premises .
Wilhelmshöhe Colony
The colliery built a colony for its workers on the east side of the road to Castrop; there were three parallel streets ("Kernberg", "Dreerhöhe" and "Gröppingsweg") between today's main street in the west and Somborner / Everstalstraße in the east. The settlement has been preserved to this day and forms the west of the Wilhelmshöhe district .
Coordinates
- 51 ° 28 ′ 53.6 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 18.6 ″ E (Bruchstrasse colliery, shaft 1 (Gustav))
- 51 ° 28 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 21.8 ″ E (Bruchstrasse colliery, shaft 2)
- 51 ° 28 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 23.9 ″ E (Bruchstrasse colliery, air shaft 1)
- 51 ° 28 ′ 49.8 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 24.2 ″ E (Bruchstrasse colliery, air shaft 2)
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9
- 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 420 .
- ^ Günter Gleising (Ed.): Opel is coming ... 25 years of Opel AG in Bochum. Self-published by the DKP District Board Bochum, Bochum 1987, p. 12
- ↑ Source of the shaft coordinates: Map for the development plan no. 923 "Baumarkt Hauptstraße" of the city of Bochum