Eleanor Colliery (Witten)

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Eleanor colliery
General information about the mine
other names Zeche Eleonora
Zeche Eleonore in Hetberge
Zeche Leonore
Mining technology Underground mining
Funding / year Max. 862 t
Funding / total Max. 4500 t
Information about the mining company
Employees Max. 12
Start of operation 1739
End of operation 1815
Successor use Operating community
coal mine Eleonore & Nachtigall
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '38.6 "  N , 7 ° 19' 10.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '38.6 "  N , 7 ° 19' 10.1"  E
Zeche Eleonore (Regional Association Ruhr)
Eleanor colliery
Location Eleanor Colliery
Location Bommern
local community Witten
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Eleonore colliery was a mine in Bommern . The mine was also known as the Zeche Eleonora , Zeche Eleonore im Hetberge or Zeche Leonore . It belonged to the mining property of the von Elverfeldt family .

history

The time as Eleonore

On August 24, 1716 took place award of a length field together with the Nightingale mine because the length field in the crossing of the mining area of the Nightingale mine was. In 1739 the colliery was operated together with the Nachtigall colliery. The tunnel was west of Frielinghauser Strasse and Auf Steinhausen Strasse. On August 24, 1743, the right to be granted in the Kreftenscheer 2 seam was renewed . The Kreftenscheer seam had a thickness of 1.25 meters in the area of ​​the muted field and a dip of eleven to 13.1 gon . On February 14th, 1764, the Baron von Elverfeldt put another challenge on the field. He submitted the courage to Bergmeister Friedrich Heintzmann. There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1769. The construction site was measured on August 9, 1774. In 1783 the operation took place in the construction field Eleonore Westflügel.

On June 29 of 1784 the mine was by the then head of the Bureau of Mines, the Baron von Stein traveled . The Eleonore colliery was one of 63 mines that vom Stein used on its journey through the Brandenburg mountain area. At that time the tunnel was 130 meters long. Vom Stein provided information about the condition and efficiency of the mine in his protocol. In particular, he criticized the too high value of the tusks . He gave instructions to re-measure the thing with a trial cut. In 1785, the mine field was re-measured. From 1787 the mine was back in operation. From 1790 the coal was transported to the coal defeat on the Ruhr. There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1796, 1800 and 1805. In February 1807, the part of the pit field of the Nachtigall colliery was taken over under the name Eleonore No. 2. In 1815 the coal was mined above the bottom of the tunnel and on August 5, 1815, the Eleanor colliery was closed. After that, the mine was in operation for a few years until 1819. On July 15, 1824, a contract was signed to form a joint venture with the Nachtigall colliery under the name Eleanor & Nachtigall colliery .

Eleanor & Nightingale

With the contract of 1824, the mines Theresia , Nachtigall and Eleonore formed a joint venture. This joint venture was also known under the names Eleonora & Nachtigall, Nachtigall & Eleonore or Nachtigaller Zeche. In the same year, the trades decided a deeper solution through the abutment tunnel. Commissioning took place in April 1825, the abutment tunnel was expanded for extraction and the mine field was aligned . In 1827, the mining began, the promotion took place through the abutment tunnel to the coal magazine on the Ruhr. In 1829 the Muttentalbahn was built together with four other mines . In 1831, a cut was made to connect with the St. Johannes Erbstollen so that the pit water could be drained through the Erbstollen. On April 25, 1832 the civil engineering area planned under the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole was spun off. From March 6, 1837 to January 9, 1838 there was a partial consolidation to the United Nightingale colliery, the rest of the operation was preserved within time limits . In April 1844 it was put back into operation above the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole, and on May 9, 1847 operations were finally closed. May 4 to 30 November 1854, the remaining operation became the Nightingale mine engineering consolidated .

Promotion and workforce

The first production figures come from the year 1828, 90,000 bushels of hard coal were mined. The first workforce dates from 1829, when seven miners were employed at the mine. In 1835, around 5000 tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1844, 16,034 bushels of hard coal were mined and in the following year with up to 12 miners 2,886 bushels of hard coal. The last known workforce and production figures for the mine are from 1847, in that year six miners were employed at the mine who produced 8,786 bushels of hard coal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k 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 e Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through the coal mining industry on the Ruhr. 1st edition, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The seam also produced very solid lump coal . (Source: Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. )
  2. ↑ Baron Vom Stein described an operational test carried out under supervision as trial hewing. (Source: Marie-Luise Frese-Strathoff, Kurt Pfläging, Joachim Huske: Coal mining in the Hörde mountain area at the time of Freiherr vom Stein. )