Egbert colliery
Egbert colliery | |||
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General information about the mine | |||
Egbert colliery | |||
Information about the mining company | |||
Employees | 6th | ||
Start of operation | 1962 | ||
End of operation | 1976 | ||
Funded raw materials | |||
Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
Geographical location | |||
Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '11.2 " N , 7 ° 16' 48.7" E | ||
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Location | Herbede | ||
local community | Witten | ||
District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
Country | Germany | ||
District | Ruhr area |
The bill Egbert was a coal - mine at Herbede . It was the last small mine in the Ruhr area .
From 1962 to 1976, about six miners mined coal at a depth of 135 meters . Up to two tons of coal were extracted and transported away for every man and working day . This is an amount per miner that is not significantly exceeded even in modern mines. The pit water flowed through an hereditary tunnel into the nearby Ruhr , so there was no need for complex dewatering in the tonnage shaft .
When the mine stopped mining on June 22, 1976 after 14 years of operation, coal production in the Ennepe-Ruhr district ended.
Small mines were in the room Herbede since the 18th century, they had great economic importance to the immediate area. As an example of this tradition, the Egbert small mine, which has been completely preserved in the daytime facilities, has been extensively restored and integrated into the historic Muttental mining trail . It is also part of the Route of Industrial Culture .
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines (= the blue books ). 6th edition expanded and updated by an excursus. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .
- 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 .
Web links
- Description of this sight on the route of industrial culture
- Press release after the renovation was completed in 2006 ( Memento from August 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive )