Ewald colliery continuation

Ewald colliery continuation
General information about the mine
Decommissioned headframe by Ewald Continuation
Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1904
End of operation	1992
Successor use	Consolidation to the Blumenthal / Haard mine
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 38 '33.6 "  N , 7 ° 15' 49.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '33.6 "  N , 7 ° 15' 49.7"  E
Location Ewald colliery continued
Location	Oer-Erkenschwick
local community	Oer-Erkenschwick
District ( NUTS3 )	Recklinghausen
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

The coal mine Ewald sequel was a coal - mine in Oer-Erkenschwick .

Shafts

On June 2, 1899, began sinking operation (Schrader) at the shaft 1, on July 10, 1899 Shaft was 2 (Grevel) next set . While the first shaft went into operation in 1902 as the Graf Waldersee mine (started after Alfred von Waldersee ), there were sinking problems with shaft 2. This had to be deferred in 1900 because of water inflows . In the meantime, the sinking of shaft 3 began in 1902, which went into operation in 1904 with a German strut frame. From 1911, a coking plant was operated on mine shaft 1/2 . The deferred shaft 2 was sunk again in 1919 and was able to go into operation in 1924 with a double strut frame with four adjacent sheaves . In order to improve the weather management , the weather shaft 4 was sunk in Rapen in 1913, but due to the First World War it did not go into operation until 1919. Shaft 4 received another shaft in 1925 (shaft 5), which went into operation in 1929.

history

Former administration building on Ewaldstrasse

In the 1930s, sales difficulties as a result of the global economic crisis meant that Ewald was shut down from 1931 to 1938. During the Second World War, the output was increased to the highest annual result to date (1943: 1.44 million tons).

After the Second World War , the production of hard coal rose by one million tons with almost 4,500 employees.

In 1969 the Ewald colliery, including the coking plant, was incorporated into the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG . The colliery's highest output was achieved in 1974 with just under 1.47 million tons. In 1975 there was a breakthrough to the General Blumenthal mine .

In 1984 the coking plant was shut down. On October 1, 1992 the Ewald colliery was merged with the General Blumenthal colliery to form the Blumenthal / Haard mine . The shafts 1/2/3 and 4/5 were continued as the Haard mine .

In 1997, shaft 2, and in 1999, shafts 1, 3, 4 and 5 were filled . This was followed by the demolition work.

What remains are the administration buildings as well as the shaft hall and machine house of shaft 3. Mine gas is extracted from shaft 4/5 , otherwise nothing of the surface systems can be found there.

The Ewald heap was redesigned by the Regionalverband Ruhr (RVR) into a local recreation area and opened to the public in August 2009.

Misfortunes

The colliery was hit by two mining accidents :

• On March 1, 1928, the hauling rope from shaft 1 tore , killing 14 people.
• In January 1942, an explosion occurred in the nitrogen works , which again killed 14 people.

literature

• Bergwerk Haard (Hrsg.): History of the mines Ewald and Haard continuation . Ruhrkohle-Zentraldruckerei, Dortmund 1992, 313 pp.
• Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines. 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended edition 2005. In: Die Blauen Bücher . Langewiesche publishing house , Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .

Web links

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

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~16~11644

Footnotes

1. ↑ Bergwerk Haard (ed.): History of the mines Ewald, continuation and Haard . Ruhrkohle-Zentraldruckerei, Dortmund 1992, p. 24 (naming of shaft 1 after mine director Ludwig Schrader) and p. 58 (naming of shaft 2 after mine director Wilhelm Grevel)
2. ↑ Joachim Huske : The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 . Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, 3rd, revised and expanded edition 2006. ISBN 3-937203-24-9 . P. 284.
3. ^ City of Oer-Erkenschwick (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Oer-Erkenschwick . 1989. p. 131
4. ^ Ewald coking plant continuation: Last coke pressed . In: Ruhrkohle. Employee magazine of Ruhrkohle AG , year 1984, issue 4, SV