Emscher-Lippe colliery
| Emscher-Lippe colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Sheave of the Emscher-Lippe colliery |
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1906 | ||
| End of operation | 1972 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 38 '10.4 " N , 7 ° 20' 8.6" E | ||
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| Location | Dates | ||
| local community | Dates | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Recklinghausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Emscher-Lippe was a coal - mine in Datteln in the northern Ruhr area in the northwest of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
history
As early as the 1870s and 1880s, several drilling companies carried out successful mutation wells in the area around the Haard .
The Friedrich Krupp AG founded in 1902 together with the North German Lloyd in Bremen, the mining law union of the coal mine Emscher-Lippe in Datteln. The name was given to the mine field because of its geographical location as a tilted square between Emscher and Lippe.
In 1902, the community was Datteln south on newly opened Dortmund-Ems Canal with the drilling of the first double pit started. 1904 reached shafts the intended final depth , they were both with novel conveyor scaffolding of the type Klönne equipped. In 1906 the promotion could be started.
In 1908 the first coking plant was put into operation. At the same time, the union began further north on the Dortmund-Ems Canal with the sinking of the independent production well 3. This went to some technical problems in 1912 in promotion . Next to it, the independent weather shaft 4 was sunk from 1912 to 1915, which remained without a conveyor.
The high demand for coal and coke during the First World War led to a rapid increase in production. As early as 1918, 1 million tons of coal were mined. The pits were also expanded extensively during the war. In 1922, another coking plant was put into operation at shaft 3/4.
In 1925, the majority of the Kuxe was taken over by Phönix AG for mining and smelting . The colliery was then not incorporated into the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , but bought up by Friedrich Krupp AG. From 1926 to 1929, shaft 5 in the north-western part of the field was sunk. In the 1930s the mine was expanded extensively. Despite being part of the Krupp Group, it had its own administration. In 1940 1.5 million tons of fat, gas and gas flame coal were mined. Coke production was 900,000 tons.
Towards the end of the Second World War , the colliery suffered severe damage from bombs and artillery fire. The funding had to be interrupted for a few months. Both coking plants failed and could not go back into operation until 1947 and 1949. The Emscher-Lippe union was spun off from Krupp's ownership and continued as an independent mining company, but was majority owned by Phoenix Rheinrohr AG and Hibernia AG .
However, the powerful mine was also expanded during the onset of the coal crisis . 1961 to 1964 the extending "Emscher-Lippe 6" weather shaft was sunk in the north field . In 1970, the colliery and coking plant with the mining property of Hibernia AG became one of the last free mines to be part of the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG .
Shutdown
As part of the overall adaptation plan for Ruhr mining , a reorganization of the mining of the connecting pit fields in the Haard area had been determined.
Since the Emscher-Lippe conveyor systems would have had to be renewed at great expense, the decision was made to carry out further exploration by the Ewald Continuation and General Blumenthal collieries .
The Emscher-Lippe production site was given up and the mining fields were ceded. On February 25, 1972, the Emscher-Lippe 1/2, 3/4 and 5 pits were shut down. Shaft 6 was kept open and the Ewald colliery was continued.
The coking plant at shaft 3/4 was operated until 1974, the one at shaft 1/2 until 1983.
Current condition
Most of the daytime facilities were demolished and the shafts filled in from 1974 . Some buildings were still used for a year of vocational primary school, including the former mining vocational school, the sports hall and the nursery. Most of the participants in the primary vocational school year who came from outside were accommodated in the former apprentice dormitory of the colliery, which was located on Helenenstrasse, which is now called Zechenstrasse. Some of the buildings are still preserved today. The former house 3 and the dining room with attached kitchen were demolished in the early 1980s.
There is an industrial park on the grounds of Emscher-Lippe 1/2. Some buildings in the gate area are still preserved. On the old site of Emscher-Lippe 3/4, the construction of a water town with the integration of recreational boaters in residential areas is currently planned. Architecturally remarkable is the Beisenkamp factory colony from the time the colliery was founded, planned and designed by the Krupp construction department under the architect Robert Schmohl .
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, 2008, ISBN 3784569943
- 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