Eiberg colliery
| Eiberg colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / year | up to 310,561 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to 1,180 | ||
| Start of operation | 1882 (Eiberg shaft 1951) |
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| End of operation | 1914 (Eiberg shaft 1968) |
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| Successor use | Takeover by Zeche Theodor | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Greatest depth | 563 m | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '33 " N , 7 ° 6' 58" E | ||
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| Location | Eiberg | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Eiberg was a coal - mine in the formerly independent rural community Eiberg at Steele ; to eat today - Freisenbruch belonging.
history
founding
Predecessor Jacob
The Eiberg colliery was established in 1882 as a new operating company for the Jacob colliery . Your bay in 1858 down to 238 meters drilled after 1852, an approximately 74 cm thick coal seam was discovered in the meadows of the farmers in the valley of the creek Siepmann Schirnbecke. One year later was awarded the mining area Jacob and foundation of the union of the coal mine Jacob instead. Due to the water-bearing overburden, this shaft repeatedly ran into operational difficulties. This led to the insolvency of the mine operator in 1879 and to the closure of the Jacob mine a year later.
Eiberg colliery
The shaft building and mine field property were auctioned in 1882 by the now name changed union of the hard coal mine Eiberg . The Jacob shaft was repaired and mining started. After the construction of a weather shaft next to shaft 1 and further weathering in the mine field , the mine field ownership was increased considerably at the end of the 19th century. In 1888 a briquette plant was completed.
On February 15, 1899 in Horst preferred Zeche Fridolin , a tunnel mine , merged with the mine Eiberg. During this time, further consolidations went hand in hand with Mecklingsbank in the west and Victoria , so that the Eiberg colliery covered a total area of 3.84 km². From 1899 to 1901, a second production shaft called Hermann (also shaft 2) was sunk in Überruhr-Hinsel . In addition to this shaft, a weather shaft was subsequently sunk. In 1903 the production reached 310,561 tons at a shaft depth of 337 meters and 1,180 employees.
In 1904 the Eiberg colliery with five shafts was sold to the Ewald trade union in Herten , as the operating company was facing insolvency. Shaft Hermann (shaft 2) had to stop mining in September 1904 because of poor quality coal. Furthermore, the subsequent closures of the neighboring Steingatt and United Charlotte collieries resulted in increasing dewatering problems for the entire mine . An attempt in 1905 to increase the quality of the production in substation construction and thus restore profitability failed. In 1905 two weather shafts were abandoned. In 1908 the construction of the substation was abandoned due to high water inflows of over 9 cubic meters per minute.
Closure of the Eiberg colliery
In 1914, the Ewald union decided to shut down the Eiberg colliery, as no economic result could be achieved in the long term. The shafts were filled and the daytime systems were sold to the Haas company in Magdeburg and demolished. The mine field was initially leased to the Charlotte Mining Company in 1916 . From 1925, the mine field was taken over by Heinrich Bergbau AG , which assigned it to the newly emerging Theodor colliery for exploration in the 1930s .
Forced labor camp
During the Second World War , the National Socialists built a forced labor camp on the fallow land of the Eiberg colliery , which consisted of four living rooms and a kitchen barrack. There were about 80 forced laborers, mainly from Eastern Europe and the Netherlands, who had to serve the agriculture and the removal of the remains of the colliery facilities.
Eiberg shaft and renewed closure
From 1951 to 1955, the new Eiberg outer shaft of the Theodor colliery was sunk to 490 meters on the old Eiberg colliery site and put into operation as a cable car and material shaft. An accident occurred on September 25, 1953 during the work to reopen the Eiberg mine. Eight miners were killed at a depth of 265 meters when the backfill mountains slid down the shaft.
On March 31, 1968, when Heinrich Bergbau AG ceased operations and its outdoor facilities, the Eiberg shaft, which last reached a depth of 563 meters, was closed.
Current condition
After the final shutdown, the remaining daytime facilities were demolished and the entire colliery area leveled, it then lay for decades as wasteland and overgrown with bushes and trees. From 1985, after extensive test drillings and soil investigations , the area of the streets Hobestatt , Falterweg and Zeche Eiberg was covered with row houses.
The filled shaft was not built over, it is located on the overgrown open-air area between the houses Hobestatt 78 and Zeche Eiberg 84 . In an area that was fenced off for security reasons opposite the Zeche Eiberg 67 house, there was an earlier air shaft. The street name Zeche Eiberg reminds of the old mine .
In May 2008, the Eiberg local history district erected a colliery monument with a memorial stone near the former Eiberg mine on Hobestatt street, which is dedicated to the miners who died there in 1953 (see picture).
literature
- Hermann, Wilhelm and Gertrude: The old mines on the Ruhr . 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended edition 2003, Königstein i. Ts. ( Verlag Langewiesche ) 2008 ( The Blue Books ), 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