Carl colliery

Carl colliery
	General information about the mine
	Malakow tower of the Carl colliery after repair
Funding / year	approx. 300,000 t
	Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1861
End of operation	1929
Successor use	Cultural center
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '43 " N , 7 ° 0' 43" E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '43 " N , 7 ° 0' 43" E
	Location Carl colliery
Location	Elderly food
local community	eat
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	eat
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Zeche Carl was a coal - mine in Essen district Altenessen .

history

In 1855, a Hercules union was founded in Altenessen , which began by digging a shaft (not to be confused with the Hercules colliery in the center of Essen). The shaft was equipped with a large Malakow tower with two nacelle wings and went into operation in 1861. The Hercules union was taken over in the same year by the Cologne Mining Association under Friedrich Grillo and renamed the Zeche Carl .

The colliery developed well because the gas coal produced was of very high quality and could be used for coke production . From 1883 a coking plant was operated next to Schacht Carl . An additional ventilation shaft was from 1885 to 1887 beside pit Carl drilled .

In 1899, a large rope sheave frame with double funding was placed on the Malakow Tower . The production could be increased to 300,000 t annually.

After the First World War, ownership of the Cologne Mining Association passed to Hoesch AG . This decided to combine the conveyor systems in the Altenessen area.

Coal production at the Carl colliery was stopped in 1929. In 1931 the coking plant was also shut down. The headframe shaft Carl was dismantled. The shaft was assigned to the Emil-Emscher colliery as a weather shaft .

The weather shaft was abandoned in 1955. In 1970 all other functions of the facility were also terminated.

Todays use

Eventually the city of Essen bought the approx. Eleven hectare colliery area. The initiative Zentrum Zeche Carl eV was founded in 1977 through an initiative by citizens, young people and the local Protestant church community and the Zeche Carl was converted into a cultural center. The entire group of Zeche Carl buildings is now a listed building . In front of the western entrance, a parking lot embedded in meadows was created, the larger eastern area was designed as an open landscape park.

Malakov Tower
Carl colliery
Steam boiler

The converted building of the Zeche Carl has offered a varied cultural program for over 25 years and is therefore a national highlight of the Essen cultural scene. Numerous cabaret events and concerts, parties, courses and workshops, readings and exhibitions and much more take place in the Zeche Carl. Political institutions and self-help groups are also located in the Zeche Carl. The Essen Open Canal was also located on the site of the Carl colliery .

In mid-2009, after the bankruptcy of the association, the "Auf Carl non-profit GmbH" was founded. The new managing director is Kornelia Vossebein.

literature

Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. In: The Blue Books . 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended. Langewiesche publishing house , Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .
Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3. Edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .

Individual evidence

↑ Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved January 5, 2017
↑ The West: "Zeche Carl" concentrates on its core business, August 12, 2009

Web links

Commons : Zeche Carl - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Excerpt from the list of monuments of the city of Essen ; Retrieved January 5, 2017

[2] The West: "Zeche Carl" concentrates on its core business, August 12, 2009