Ewald colliery

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Ewald colliery
General information about the mine
View of the buildings and headframes of shafts 2 and 7 and the Malakow tower.jpg

View of the buildings and headframes of shafts 2 and 7 and the Malakow tower
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1877
End of operation 2001
Successor use Commercial space
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 34 '19 "  N , 7 ° 8' 54"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '19 "  N , 7 ° 8' 54"  E
Ewald Colliery (Regional Association Ruhr)
Ewald colliery
Location Ewald colliery
Location Herten
local community Herten
District ( NUTS3 ) Recklinghausen
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The coal mine Ewald is a disused coal - mine in Herten , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The sinking work for Shaft 1 (Hilger) began in 1872. In 1876, a minable deposit was opened up at a depth of 464 m and in 1877 production began there. The first few years were not very successful; Faults in the area of ​​the shaft required deeper sinking . In 1884 the shaft was the deepest in the Ruhr area at 624 m. Ewaldstrasse was only to be built on the other side of the Malakow tower from shaft 1. The plans changed and so the lettering on the tower was placed on the wrong side. The mine was at the time far away from other cultivations. Due to the lack of manpower, only daring types could be won over to work underground .

Shaft 2 was ready for extraction in 1892, and sinking work began in 1888. The Ewald 3/4 mine shafts followed in Gelsenkirchen-Resse in 1895 . A fifth shaft was sunk in the Katzenbusch. In 1911, shaft 6 , which went into operation as early as 1912, was excavated 600 m southeast of shaft 3/4 . During the Second World War , the extraction requirements increased so that the sinking work for a central extraction shaft (shaft 7) was started. The above-day expansion of the shaft was only continued in 1949. The shaft received a double-headed headframe. A breakthrough to the Ewald 3/4 mine followed. In 1969 the RAG colliery was closed and merged with the Recklinghausen colliery.

A mine gas extraction system was operated on shaft 3/4 . The compressed gas was fed to the specially built motor-driven thermal power station owned by Stadtwerke Gelsenkirchen and used to generate electricity and heat.

In 1989 it was merged with the Schlägel & Eisen colliery , and in 1997 with the Hugo colliery . For a short time the composite mine Ewald / Hugo had 21 shafts. The political decision to give up the Ewald colliery, however, was made, and so on March 28, 2000, the last shift was run. The final shutdown followed in spring 2001.

The Hoppenbruch heap adjoins the site . Together with the Hoheward dump, it forms the largest dump landscape in Europe with around 220 ha . Large parts of the colliery have meanwhile been demolished, but the Malakow tower above shaft 1, the steel box strut frame above shaft 2 and the double-headed headframe on the former shaft 7 still exist .

  • Malakow tower over shaft 1

  • Shaft 2

  • Double-headed headframe above shaft 7

remodeling

In order to compensate for the loss of jobs and economic power associated with the closure of the mine as soon as possible, RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH - formerly Montan-Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH (MGG) - founded together with the city of Herten in 1999, while the mine was still in operation "Project community Ewald". The aim was the economic revitalization of the 52 hectare area and the creation of at least 1,000 new jobs.

The two project partners decided on the concept of “service provider” when planning the subsequent use. It provides the areas of service, service, education, small-scale and large-scale business including a marketplace as a meeting point for the newly settled entrepreneurs and their customers. The redesign of the area is based on a design by the architects Cino Zucchi, Martin Halfmann and Peter Köster from 2002. The defining element of the redesign is the historical layer with some listed colliery buildings and the old shaft frames, which can be seen from afar as “lighthouses”. This area is connected to the newly designed Ewaldpromenade via a system of squares and paths , which extends from south to north parallel to the naturally designed drainage canal , the Blue Ribbon , across the entire site. The integration of the site into the 750 hectare Hoheward landscape park (formerly Emscherbruch landscape park ) was also taken into account in the design.

  • Former driveway to the company premises

  • Access to the company premises (photo 2002)

  • Before dismantling and renovation (2004)

  • New logistics locations (2008)

Current condition

More than 60 percent of the site, which has been extensively renovated and freed from contaminated sites, has been marketed since 2002. In 2007 the 18 hectares of logistics space were sold to international companies. 70 percent of the listed existing buildings have also already been marketed. The Hydrogen Competence Center H2Herten is being built on the northern part of the Ewald site. The companies IdaTech Fuel Cells GmbH and Masterflex GmbH are the first to settle here. At the beginning of 2009, construction began on the “Blue Tower”, which is a demonstration plant that uses the stepped reforming process to extract the hydrogen-rich synthetic natural gas from biomass and , when it is completed, will deliver 13 megawatts of energy. In October 2009, a user center was opened in which new uses of hydrogen as an energy carrier and fuel cell technology can be explored. As a further module, a wind power electrolysis is being built with funds from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which will supply the user center with "green" hydrogen from wind power. In addition, the Herten tourist office was opened in 2010 in the former wages and lighting hall. The settlement of more than 20 new companies has created 1,000 new jobs within a decade after the Ewald mine was closed.

The Ewald project has established itself as an event location for years. It has already been there three times as the hub of the renowned "Extraschicht", the night of industrial culture, and for events such as the T-COM mountain bike event in May 2007. In October 2009, theater entrepreneur Christian Stratmann opened the RevuePalast Ruhr in the former heating center as Travesty theater for shows and guest performances. The ARD Sportschau Club has been broadcast from the underground bar there since 2013. The Kustom Kulture Forever (formerly Bottrop Kustom Kulture ), one of the largest Kustom Kulture shows in Europe, has been taking place on the site since 2013 . The Kustom Kulture Tattoo Show has been affiliated since 2016 .

  • Ewald promenade

  • The Herten tourist office on the colliery site

  • RevuePalast Ruhr on the colliery site

  • Stage of the Kustom Kulture Tattoo Show 2019

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 3784569943
  • Wolfgang Quickels , Sibylle Raudies, Eberhard Scholz: "It was, it will. The Ewald colliery from 1871 to 2010 in history / s and pictures" 1st edition, RDN Verlags GmbH & Co. KG Stefan Prott, Recklinghausen, 2007, ISBN 3 -9810120-3-8
  • 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

Web links

Commons : Zeche Ewald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Kober: Bottrop loses image carrier "Bottrop Kustom Kulture" - Festival moves to Ewald in Herten. In: WAZ. January 14, 2013, accessed May 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Clemence Burgun: Kustom Kulture Tattoo Show 2018. In: Tattoo magazine . July 4, 2018, accessed May 27, 2019 .