Emil-Emscher colliery

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Emil-Emscher colliery
General information about the mine
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1877
End of operation 1965
Successor use Summary of the Emil-Fritz composite mine
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '43 "  N , 6 ° 59' 33"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '43 "  N , 6 ° 59' 33"  E
Emil-Emscher Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Emil-Emscher colliery
Location Emil-Emscher colliery
Location Bird home
local community eat
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) eat
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The bill Emil-Emscher was a coal - mine in Essen .

history

1872-1903

The Cologne mine association had 1847 initially in Altenessen lying Anna colliery acquired and expanded. Subsequently, from the 1860s, the field ownership of this colliery was continuously expanded to the north. Ultimately, the property included pit fields up to the Emscher and extended under the districts of Altenessen and Vogelheim . After the construction of connection systems for the Anna colliery was initially planned, it was later decided to open up the mine field with independent conveyor shaft systems.

The Emscher trade union was founded in 1872 . This began in 1873 with the sinking of the Emscher 1 shaft in the Emscheraue north of Vogelheim. The shaft went into operation in 1877 . As the first mine operation in the Ruhr mining industry, it was completely equipped with fire-proof buildings and received an iron headframe .

The mine initially developed very promisingly, also due to the high-quality coking coal that was extracted. So the economically not unproblematic period of the following years could be survived relatively easily. Between 1888 and 1892, the Emscher 2 shaft was sunk next to the Emscher 1 shaft. After its completion, it took over the main conveying tasks for the Emscher mine.

As before, it was also planned to develop mining technology for the parts of the field further to the east. After initially only weather shaft systems were planned, it was decided in 1900 to build a new central conveyor system with two shafts on Gladbecker Straße ( B224 ). A large-scale expansion was planned. Both shafts were to be equipped with double strut frames and, in the long term, should combine the mining of the surrounding mines of the Cologne Mining Association.

1903-1945

In 1903 the sinking of this double shaft system began. In honor of the then General Director of the Cologne Mining Association, Emil Krabler , it was named Emil 1/2 mine .

The sinking work lasted until 1905. As a conveyor system, the double strut frame was only erected above shaft Emil 1. Shaft 2 received a two-storey scaffolding as a quasi “halved” version of the scaffolding of shaft 1, in order to possibly be extended later. A central coking plant was also put into operation on shaft Emil 1/2.

From 1906 a coking plant was also operated on Shaft Emscher 1/2. From now on, the operating company was renamed to Zeche Emil-Emscher.

From 1911 the merger of the Cologne Mining Association with the Mining Association Neu-Essen was promoted. On January 1, 1912, this was merged into the Cologne-Neu-Essen Mining Association . As part of this merger, the conveyor systems in the western area were combined. The Anna colliery was taken out of production and connected as a connection to the Emil 1/2 mining shaft.

The mining of Emil 1/2 and Emscher 1/2 reached the value of 1.2 million tons of fat and gas coal during the First World War .

From 1921 there was an interest agreement between the Cologne-Neu-Essener Bergwerkverein and Hoesch AG . In 1930 the company finally merged with Hoesch AG.

The incoming pits in the northern Essen area were gradually merged. The Emil-Emscher colliery together with the Anna 1/2 shaft was connected to the previously independent Carl colliery . The promotion on Carl 1/2 was discontinued and merged on Emil 1/2. The Emscher 1/2 shaft and Anna shaft 1/2 coking plants were taken out of service. Instead, a new central coking plant was built on Emil 1/2.

From 1935, the Emil-Emscher mining was limited to shaft Emil 1/2; From then on, the Emscher shafts were used as cableways , material and weather shafts . Likewise, at the Fritz-Heinrich colliery, the production was combined to Fritz 1/2.

The Emil and Emscher pits were badly damaged in the Second World War . Due to the neighboring building of Altenberger AG for zinc production, the Emscher colliery in particular was increasingly affected by bomb attacks .

1945-1965

After the reconstruction, the Emil-Emscher colliery reached the production of 1 million tons of coal a year again in 1951.

As part of the unbundling of the Hoesch Group, Altenessener Bergwerks AG was founded in 1952 , which incorporated the entire mining company of Hoesch AG. From 1956, Hoesch AG again acquired the majority of shares in this company, but continued to operate it under the new name.

From 1958, plans were made to finally merge the Emil-Emscher and Fritz-Heinrich collieries . A new central shaft was sunk on Fritz 1/2.

Existing connecting routes were expanded to form conveyor network routes .

In 1965 the two mines were finally combined as the Emil-Fritz composite mine . The production was concentrated on the new Hansen shaft on Fritz 1/2. Shaft Emil 1 also remained as a conveyor shaft, also because of the continued operation of the central coking plant.

Current condition

After the composite mine was closed in 1973, the shafts were backfilled and the daytime facilities completely demolished. The Emil 1/2 site was used by Ruhrkohle AG as a central coal storage facility and is now to be used for commercial purposes.

The Emscher 1/2 site had also been completely cleared and is now home to small businesses.

literature

  • Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, 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

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