Carl Wilhelm colliery

Carl Wilhelm colliery
General information about the mine
other names	Carl Wilhelm colliery & Carl Wilhelms Erbstollen
Information about the mining company
Employees	approx. 50
Start of operation	1844
End of operation	1875
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Bituminous coal / brown iron stone / coal iron stone
Degradation of	Brown iron stone
Degradation of	Coal iron stone
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 24 '57.8 "  N , 7 ° 14' 23.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '57.8 "  N , 7 ° 14' 23.2"  E
Location Carl Wilhelm colliery
Location	Stiepel- Rockhausen
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

The Carl Wilhelm colliery is a former hard coal mine in Bochum 's Stiepel district, Brockhausen. The mine was also known under the name of Zeche Carl Wilhelm & Carl Wilhelms Erbstollen and emerged from a renaming of the United Altemann mine. In the second half of the 19th century, brown iron stone and coal iron stone were also extracted from the mine. The mine belonged to the Märkisches Bergamts district and there to the jury area Westlich Witten .

Mining history

After the name was changed in 1844, a cross passage was first excavated at the Wilhelm shaft, which took several tons . A 745 meter long straightening stretch was then driven to the east. In the same year, the right to inherit the tunnel was applied for in order to drive the straightening stretch beyond 775 meters. The intention was to develop the authorized Westermanns Leibzucht No. II, Lina, Neuezufall, Mitgottgewagen, Neuehafen and Neuezufall. These authorized persons should be accessed via a southern cross passage. The legitimate Westermanns Leibzucht No. I should be solved with a northern crosscut . In addition, a further drive to the east should take place, if there was no solution of the rights to the Gibraltar inheritance. Starting from the tunnel mouth hole , a 250 Lachter rail route to the Ruhrmagazin was created. In addition, little dismantling was carried out in the first year of operation .

In 1845 the cross passage to the south crossed the Augustus banks. In 1847, the further advance of the cross passage to the south was postponed and the excavation of the cross passage to the north began. On May 15, 1848 took place ceremony of Längenfelder Carl Wilhelm Nos. I and II as well as the awarding of the Erbstollenrechtes. Various seams were mined, mainly in a westerly direction, and ironstone was mined for this purpose. There were a total of four seams with different thicknesses in Verhieb . One of these seams ranged in thickness from 20 to 24 inches . In the other three seams, the smallest seam was 17 and the largest 24 inches high, and the third seam was 21 inches thick. The transport took place over the 522 meter long rail route to the Ruhr. In 1853 it was extracted from the Wilhelm shaft, which took several tonnes, from a depth of 17 pools. In the following year the mine was acquired by the owners of the Carl Wilhelms Erbstollen. However, it was run as an independent company until it was closed. In 1859 the company was closed because the owners had to pay additional fees. In addition, only thin seams with unclean coal were left at this point in time . In 1869 the mine was put back into operation and finally shut down around 1875.

Promotion and workforce

The first production figures come from the year 1845, 4727 tons of hard coal were mined, 23 tons of which from the tunneling. The first workforce dates from 1847, between 14 and 56 miners , nine of them miners, were employed in the Erbstollen. This year, 51,314 bushels , that is 2822 tons, were extracted from hard coal. In 1850, 5,246 tonnes, 76 tonnes of which from the excavation tunnel, were extracted. The following year, the mine reached its maximum output of 6091 tons. In 1855, 29 miners extracted 22,533 Prussian tons. In 1857 the production sank to 951 tons, it was provided with 43 miners. In 1859 production fell again to 823 tons. In 1869 6,681 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1870, around 5500 tons of hard coal were extracted with 22 miners. These are the last known production and workforce figures for the mine.

United old man

The colliery resulting from the consolidation produced a total of 6,922 Prussian tonnes of hard coal in 1842. The Wilhelm shaft was still in operation in 1843. In 1844 the colliery was renamed Zeche Carl Wilhelm.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} 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 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ludwig Herrmann Wilhelm Jacobi : The mining, metallurgy and trade of the government district Arnsberg in statistical representation. Published by Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857. Online .
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor to Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .