Carolinenglück colliery

Carolinenglück colliery
General information about the mine
Shaft 3 of the Carolinenglück colliery with carriage circulation in the 1960s
Mining technology	Underground mining
Funding / year	1929: 807,500 tons
Information about the mining company
Operating company	Bochum Association (from 1900)
Employees	2,875 (in 1929)
Start of operation	1850
End of operation	1964
Successor use	industrial Estate
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '34.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '34.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51.2"  E
Location Carolinenglück colliery
Location	Hamme
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

The colliery Carolinenglück (to 1870 colliery Gluckauf ) was a bituminous coal - mine in present-day Bochum district Hammering near the Ruhrschnellweg, today A 40 .

In 1844 test drilling was carried out on the site for the first time. Coal deposits were discovered at depths of 41 meters and 52 meters . Thereupon an assumption was made , i.e. an application for a mine field .

Start of devil

Sinking could begin in 1847 . The mine was one of the first to break through the hard marl rock in order to mine coal at greater depths . In 1848 the carbon layer was reached at a depth of 42 meters. In 1850 the first level was set up at a depth of 100 meters and a second level at a depth of 127 meters. Funding began in the same year.

In 1854 the third level was added at a depth of 185 meters. In 1855 a production volume of 31,657 tons of coal with 340 employees was achieved. In 1862, the fourth sole was at a depth of 250 meters aligned and permission to Seilfahrt was granted. In 1869 there was a water ingress (marl water) and the mine was flooded to the second level. The promotion had to be stopped and the bill went during Abpumparbeiten (the so-called. Swamps ) into bankruptcy . In 1870 there was a change of ownership and the swamps could be completed. In the same year, the dismantling work began again with 315 employees who brought 30,664 tons of coal to light. In 1881 a newly built coking plant was put into operation on the Carolinenglück site.

The connecting line to the Gelsenkirchen station of the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which was jointly built by the Carolinenglück collieries, Hanover and Rheinelbe , was put into operation on March 12, 1859. Track connections to the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) to the stations President (commissioning 1874) and Wattenscheid-Hörde (commissioning May 22, 1876) followed. On April 27, 1929, the connecting line from the Carolinenglücker Bahn to the Grimberg port railway went into operation.

On February 17, 1898, the worst mine accident to date occurred in the Ruhr mining industry. A firedamp explosion killed 116 miners.

The 20th century

In 1900 the Bochum Association acquired the mine. In the meantime 971 people worked there and 253,697 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1913, 2,151 people were working at the Carolinenglück colliery and extracted 610,668 tons of coal. In 1915, however, the output shrank to 480,624 tons of coal with 1,690 employees. In 1929 the highest output was reached with 807,500 tons of coal. This year 2,875 people worked at the colliery. In 1937 the ninth level was set up at 950 meters and the tenth level at 1,076 meters. The coking plant was expanded to a large-scale coking plant with 210 ovens and extensive ancillary extraction systems - the benzene washing plant at Carolinenglück processed all of the crude benzene from the Bochum group and Friedrich Wilhelms-Hütte , and all the tar from Gelsenkirchener Bergwerk AG was used in the tar distillation .

In 1945 the Second World War caused severe damage. However, despite adverse circumstances, 102,244 tons of coal with 1,536 employees were extracted. In 1955 the output reached 408,000 tons of coal with 2,566 employees. In 1963, with only 1,497 employees, 488,240 tons of coal were mined. The colliery was shut down on May 31, 1964. In 1968 the coking plant on the factory premises was also shut down and demolished because the Bochum Association's blast furnaces were blown out. A little later, the tar distillation operated by Rütgerswerke und Teerverwertung AG , which was still processing raw tar from the surrounding coking plants, is shut down.

Todays use

Today reminds them - except the same commercial zone - only the 1912 built on bay three struts framework of the type Zschetzsche and the built on bay 2 in 1856 and by alterations changed Malakoff Tower . Both shafts are used today for central water management. The pit water pumped out here comes from disused pit fields in the north of Bochum, in Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Waltrop and Lünen. The ore railway , which in this part goes back to a connection railway from the 1850s, ran through the former colliery site . Today the cycle path runs on it from the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum to the former ore port of Grimberg on the Rhine-Herne Canal .

The protective bridge of the coke cable railway to supply the blast furnaces of the Bochumer Verein via the A 40 was torn down on October 16, 2010 as the last relic of the coking plant.

Location of the shafts

• Shaft 1, approximate location (under today's Bundesautobahn 40 ): 51 ° 29 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 4.6 ″  E , in operation from 1850, backfilled in 1946
• Weather shaft, approximate location: 51 ° 29 ′ 37.3 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 49.4 ″  E , in operation from 1873, backfilled in 1912
• Shaft 2: 51 ° 29 ′ 35.5 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 49.1 ″  E , in operation from 1891, closed in 1964, in operation for dewatering
• Shaft 3: 51 ° 29 ′ 34.4 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 51.2 ″  E , in operation from 1912, closed in 1964, in operation for dewatering

photos

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  Facade detail on a colliery building

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  Headframe of the Carolinenglück colliery in Hamme

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  The headframe is the only one of the Zschetzsche type of scaffolding that has survived in the Ruhr area , alongside that of shaft 1 of the Sterkrade colliery in Oberhausen .

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  Coke cable car from the Carolinenglück colliery to the Bochumer Verein

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  Demolition of the cable car protection bridge with pedestrian walkway on October 16, 2010

literature

• Evelyn Kroker , Michael Farrenkopf: Mine accidents in German-speaking countries. Catalog of the mines, victims, causes and sources. 2nd expanded edition. Bochum 1999, ISBN 3-921533-68-6 .
• 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. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
• o. V .: "Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks Aktiengesellschaft - 10 years coal mining of the United Steelworks A.-G. 1926-1936", Essen 1936, p. 156ff.

Web links

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

• Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information board "Zeche Carolinenglück, Glückauf-Siedlung" on the ore railway cycle path
2. ↑ 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. 548 .
3. ^ Advertisement by Rütgerswerke und Teerverwertung AG (RüTAG) in o.V .: "Bochum a modern large city", Landesdienst-VerlagBerlin-West 1968, p. 136