Carl Funke colliery

Carl Funke colliery
General information about the mine
Headframe of the colliery
Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1804
End of operation	1973
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 24 '14 "  N , 7 ° 2' 59"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '14 "  N , 7 ° 2' 59"  E
Location Carl Funke colliery
Location	Heisingen
local community	eat
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	eat
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

Winding machine house of the Hundsnocken colliery

The Carl Funke colliery was a hard coal mine in Essen - Heisingen on the north bank of Lake Baldeney .

history

1773 to 1900

As with the other collieries in the Ruhr Valley , the origins of the Carl Funke colliery go back to older mine operations . In 1773 the coal concession of the Hundsnocken colliery was awarded by the then Bergregal . This drift mine which their Berechtsame north had of today Baldeneysees in Heisingen on the future mine site, joined in the following years with other Koncessionen to a mining law union together.

From 1804, the tunnel dog cam was in promotion . Due to the temporary occupation of the area north of the Ruhr by Napoleonic troops , operations were repeatedly interrupted. Later, deeper tunnels were driven into on the hill. In contrast to the up-and-coming neighboring United Pörtingssiepen colliery, the Hundsnocken colliery initially only existed as a small tunnel operation with eight shareholders and an annual production of 1000 tons of anthracite coal . It was not until around 1825 that the mining of the rich Mausegatt seam increased immensely, up to 30,000 tons annually. Little by little , two colliery houses were built.

In 1841 civil engineering began by bringing down a tonnage shaft . Since lugs companies had not have enough recoverable reserves in the long term, in 1870 the bill dog cam with some neighboring plants for the union of the coal mine engineering Heisinger consolidated . The deeper underground construction levels were further developed through the ton-long shaft. In the long run, however, the Heisinger Tiefbau colliery could no longer keep pace with the neighboring mines. A decisive turning point was Carl Funke's entry as the mining director of the United Pörtingssiepen colliery . Funke began with the systematically tailored expansion of the Ver mines. Pörtingssiepen, Gottfried Wilhelm and finally from 1880 also Heisinger Tiefbau.

The Heisinger Tiefbau colliery was on the verge of bankruptcy when it became the property of Carl Funke's company. The mining law union was transformed into a new company called Rheinische Anthracitkohlenwerke AG . This began with the planned expansion of the colliery in order to avert the liquidation of the mining operations. First of all, an auxiliary shaft was installed to replace the dilapidated barrel-length shaft. From 1897 to 1899 the first real seigere shaft called Friedrich Wilhelm was sunk. From then on, this took over the overall funding of the colliery. For days there was a connecting line to the Kupferdreh station .

1900 to 1945

The mines from Funke's mine owned, together with the United Dahlhauser Tiefbau colliery and the Hercules colliery, became part of the newly founded Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG . Carl Funke became CEO. The Heisinger Tiefbau colliery was renamed the Carl Funke colliery in 1906 . A high-performance processing facility and a briquette factory were built . From then on, the mine was able to produce 200,000 tons of anthracite coal annually. The colliery's positive development continued in the following years. However, further expansion plans were not initially implemented.

After the First World War , the plans for the expansion of the colliery were renewed and implemented despite the all-round crisis in the Ruhr mining industry. Between 1924 and 1926, shaft 2 was sunk next to shaft 1. He received a Tomson trestle as a conveyor system, which was transported here from the Victoria mine in Kupferdreh , which was closed in 1925 . In 1931 the disused shaft of the Prinz Friedrich colliery was connected as shaft 3 . This marked the beginning of the eastward migration of Carl Funke's minefield property. As part of the cooperation between the Ruhrtalzechen of the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG, the pits had meanwhile been linked by connecting routes . However, they continued to function as separate conveyor systems. The connection between the Gottfried Wilhelm colliery and Carl Funke was opened in 1943 via a die , and production at the Gottfried Wilhelm colliery was discontinued. Production soon peaked at 630,000 tons per year.

1945 to 1967

After the Second World War, which was excavation of the connection continues. In 1955 the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG became the property of Mannesmann AG . In 1957 the Gottfried Wilhelm colliery was finally connected to the Carl Funke colliery. The Gottfried Wilhelm mining location was finally given up. The Gottfried Wilhelm shafts remained open until the end of 1972. At the same time, the briquette factory on Carl Funke was built from scratch in the 1950s. The eastward migration of the Carl Funke colliery continued. From 1957 to 1959, the Carl Funke 4 shaft was sunk from 1957 to 1959 on a site in the Duschenhofen forest on which a small mine belonging to the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG had already been working in the early 1950s. This went into operation as a cable car shaft and was equipped with a full-walled headframe.

From 1962 to 1968, a large-scale test for hydromechanical extraction was carried out at the mine . From 1963 to 1964, Shaft 2 was built over with a modern steel frame construction tower. The processing was modernized again. In 1965 the United Dahlhauser Tiefbau colliery was connected with the abandonment of the production site there. Altendorf 2 shaft and Dahlhauser Tiefbau 2 were taken over as Carl Funke 5 and 6 shafts. In 1967 the Carl Funke colliery was merged with the United Pörtingssiepen colliery to form the Pörtingssiepen / Carl Funke joint mine . This composite mine became part of Ruhrkohle AG .

Current condition

After the composite mine was shut down in 1973, the premises were abandoned for ten years. From 1985 onwards, almost all daytime facilities were canceled. Only the headframe shaft Carl Funke 1, the old winding machine house of the Hundsnocken colliery and the colliery's gatehouse have been preserved as an industrial monument . After the renaturation of the colliery area, the allotment garden association Carl-Funke Heisingen eV settled there , which uses the former gatehouse as a community center. The headframe, like the Carl Funke settlement built between 1900 and 1901, is part of the route of industrial culture . The preserved colliery buildings and several residential buildings in the Carl Funke settlement are under monument protection (see list of architectural monuments in Heisingen ).

In 2012, the climbing hall operator and industrial climber Mike Schuh bought the now fenced headframe. In doing so, he committed himself to protecting the monument from decay. In addition, the city of Essen approved his application for a change of use. In the future, the strut frame could temporarily be made accessible for paying guests.

literature

• Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3-7845-6994-3
• 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

1. ↑ 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. 424 .
2. ↑ Horst Detering: From evening light to dwarf mother . 400 years of mining in Heisingen, 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-739-8 , pp. 161–162.
3. ^ History. Citizenship Heisingen eV, 2018, accessed on April 15, 2018 : "Only the brand house or gatehouse, now the building at the entrance of the allotment garden and used by the allotment gardeners, the machine house, which has unfortunately fallen into disrepair, and the winding tower, which has remained standing as an industrial monument is. " 
4. ↑ Wolfgang Kintscher: Climber buys Carl Funke winding tower on Lake Baldeney. WAZ, July 10, 2012, accessed September 29, 2013 . 

Web links

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

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
• Extract from the list of monuments of the city of Essen, Carl Funke colliery
• Extract from the monuments list of the city of Essen, Zeche Hundsnocken