Carl Friedrich Erbstollen mine
| Carl Friedrich Erbstollen mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 312,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | until approx. 1500 | ||
| Start of operation | 1825 | ||
| End of operation | 1924 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '20.3 " N , 7 ° 12' 43.7" E | ||
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| Location | Weitmar and Stiepel | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Carl Friedrich Erbstollen colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Bochum districts of Weitmar and Stiepel on today's Heinrich-König-Straße .
history
The roots
The production in the mines Sternberger Stollen , Harmannsbäncker Stollen and St. Georgen-Erbstollen goes back to the year 1773. In 1825 the mines were consolidated .
Transition to civil engineering
In 1852 the coal deposits on the bottom of the Erbstollen were exhausted, so a so-called machine shaft was sunk in order to access deeper-lying supplies. This project succeeded and the newly extracted coal was shipped across the Ruhr.
During this time the Henrichshütte in Welper acquired the mine and had a railway built between the pit and the hut. Next, the temporary machine shaft was replaced by a real underground shaft with the misleading name Carl Friedrich Erbstollen 1 . However, this did not mean a tunnel , but the shaft only bore the name of the colliery. The machine shaft remained in operation until 1873.
expansion
A coking plant was built in 1882/83 . 1884 teufte the pit on the road of Stiepel to Bochum an air shaft, the Carl Friedrich Erbstollen 2 . 1887 we secured the Berechtsame the mining area of the disused coal mine Brockhauser civil engineering . Both mines were merged with the Henrichshütte in the Union, AG for mining, iron and steel industry , to which, among other things, the Adolf von Hansemann colliery in Mengede belonged.
In 1905, 1190 employees achieved an annual output of 234,000 tons of coal. - In the same year "Zeche Carl Friedrich" advanced to the end of a tram line of the Bogestra , which ran via Wiemelhausen directly to Bochum Hbf . However, this line was shut down after the Second World War at the latest .
In 1910, the mine came into the possession of the German-Luxemburgish Mining and Hütten-AG , which promptly modernized both above and below ground. In the same year, 1510 employees achieved an annual output of 312,000 tons of coal.
The mining accident
On April 28, 1917 , during the cable journey at the beginning of the shift, the cable of a hoist cage in the main shaft broke , as reported by the Bochumer Anzeiger and the Märkische Sprecher . 41 miners perished, none survived the fall at a depth of 400 m. 24 miners were buried in the Protestant cemetery on Brockhauser Strasse , 15 in the Protestant cemetery on Blumenfeldstrasse . They were mass graves; denominational differences were not made.
Decline and shutdown
At the end of 1914, the coking plant ceased operations as the quality of the coking coal that was being served was deteriorating. Not even the high demand for coke in the First World War could save the plant. In addition, the near end of the coal reserves in the pit field Carl Friedrichs Erbstollen became apparent. In 1924, Carl Friedrich Erbstollen 1 the promotion and served from then on as a ventilation shaft of the adjacent coal mine Prince Regent , which degraded the remaining coal reserves in the mining field.
In 1930 the mine was finally abandoned in the same year saw the termination of the surface installations .
Search for clues
The mine is still reminiscent of a converted machine house on Am Erbstollen street , as well as the street names Bergwerksstraße , Erbstollen , Göpel and Karl-Friedrich-Straße in the Neuling residential area in the south of Weitmar and the Erbstollen district sports facility (including the home of SV Blau-Weiß Weitmar 09 ).
The Wohlfahrtstraße in Wiemelhausen owes its name indirectly Zeche Carl Friedrich Erbstollen: After the mine anno 1914, a house in the Weitmarer Mark had bought, they announced the lease with the since 1905 located there, union -minded cooperative "welfare". He then built his own building complex with a bakery and slaughterhouse on today's Markstrasse not far from the Prince Regent colliery . The side street branching off immediately behind was later named Wohlfahrtstraße.
literature
- W. Hermann and G. Hermann - The old mines on the Ruhr . Langewiesche KR Edition: 4th A., unchanged. Reprint d. 3rd edition from 1990, ISBN 3-78-456992-7
- 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
- Heinz Rittermeiner: Topic Cooperative: Consumption Welfare , in: Discover Bochum - 20 city tours through history and the present, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-89861-735-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wicho Herrmann: The accident of 1917 has not been forgotten. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , local section Bochum-Südwest. October 23, 2007