Eleanor Colliery (Dortmund)
| Eleanor colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Colliery Eleonora Colliery Eleonora Colliery Eleonore II |
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| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Funding / year | Max. 13,569 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1784 | ||
| End of operation | 1849 | ||
| Successor use | Free Vogel colliery & unexpectedly | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '35.9 " N , 7 ° 31' 47.6" E | ||
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| Location | Stir up | ||
| local community | Dortmund | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Dortmund | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Eleonore colliery is a former hard coal mine in Dortmund . The mine was located in today's Schüren district north of the Emscher on the southern slope of the Dortmund ridge . The colliery was also known under the names Zeche Eleonora , Zeche Eleonora and Zeche Eleonore II .
Mining history
On September 18, 1772, a renewed test was made by the Bunte Kuh colliery, which had fallen out of the mountains . The mine has been in operation since 1784. In 1789 the pit field was measured. A length field was awarded on September 30, 1794 . In 1796 the mine drove a tunnel from the Emscher towards the east. The tunnel mouth hole was located east of the Emscher near Kohlensiepenstrasse in the area of the Hoesch site. In September 1799 the colliery was closed and between 1799 and 1831 the colliery was not used. In July 1831 operations were resumed and the tunnel and the shaft cleared again. In 1833 mining was carried out first, on May 17 of the same year the quarter field Eleonora II was awarded.
In 1835, light hole 3 and the Heinrich shaft were dismantled. In 1837, in spite of the small pit field, civil engineering started . To the west of Meinbergstrasse and Röhrenstrasse, work began to sink an art shaft . In 1838 a steam engine was used for dewatering . In the same year the artificial shaft was sunk to the depths of the trough and the first underground excavation level was added 10 puddles below the tunnel floor . In 1840 the art shaft and Heinrich shaft were in operation. In 1842 the mine had only limited coal supplies. The art shaft was in operation in 1845 and 1847. At the end of September 1849, the Eleonore colliery was shut down again. On May 17, 1853, the Eleonora II square was awarded again. In 1891 the Eleonora II quarter field was acquired by the Freie Vogel & Unverhofft colliery .
Promotion and workforce
The first production figures come from the year 1836, 7,336 tons of Prussian coal were mined. In 1840 the production rose to 33,276 tons of Prussian hard coal. In 1842, production increased again to 13,569 tons of hard coal. The last known production figures of the mine come from the year 1846, in the first half of the year 6087 tons of hard coal were produced.
literature
- 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
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Eleonore (last accessed on August 14, 2014)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (last accessed on August 14, 2014)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (last accessed on August 14, 2014)