Fürst Hardenberg colliery

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fürst Hardenberg colliery
General information about the mine
Malakow Tower, Zeche Hardenberg Dortmund.jpg

Malakow tower of the Fürst Hardenberg colliery
other names Colliery United Prince Hardenberg
Funding / year Max. 968,680 t
Information about the mining company
Employees up to 3246
Start of operation 1876
End of operation 1960
Successor use Industrial monument, commercial space
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '57 "  N , 7 ° 26' 32"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '57 "  N , 7 ° 26' 32"  E
Zeche Fürst Hardenberg (Regional Association Ruhr)
Fürst Hardenberg colliery
Location of the Fürst Hardenberg mine
Location Lindenhorst
local community Dortmund
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Dortmund
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

Shaft mark over Prince Hardenberg

The Fürst Hardenberg colliery is a former coal mine in Dortmund - Lindenhorst . The mine was named after the Prussian statesman Karl August Fürst von Hardenberg . At times the mine was also called the United Prince Hardenberg colliery .

history

Mining formalities

From 1855 onwards, several suspicions were made on some pit fields in the Dortmund area . The first speculations were made on the Deusen I and Deusen II fields. In the following year the assumptions for the fields Nette I, Deusen III, Deusen IV and Deusen V. In 1857 the assumption for the field Nette III was inserted. In the same year, the Geviertfelder Deusen I to Deusen IV was awarded . In 1858, the Nette II field was muted. In the same year the fields Deusen V and Nette I to Nette III were awarded. This was followed in 1867 and 1868 by extensions for the Deusen I to Deusen V fields. In 1867, the beneficiaries covered an area of ​​13.2 km 2 .

The construction of the mine

On July 17, 1872, the mining union was founded. In the same year, the sinking work for the first shaft began. On September 29, 1873, the Teufbühne crashed. Eight miners were killed here. In 1874 the union of the hard coal and iron stone mine Fürst Hardenberg was founded. On April 11 of the same year the consolidation to United Prince Hardenberg took place. An ore rights also belonged to the consolidating fields. That same year, the shaft 1 reached at a depth the 170 meters carbon . In the following year, at a depth of 325 meters, there were strong water inflows. for this reason, the sinking work was stopped for a while. Another square was awarded on August 4th of the same year. In 1876 the sinking work was resumed. At a depth of 333 meters (- 261 m above sea ​​level ), the weather bed was first set. Shortly afterwards, the first building level was set at a depth of 412 meters and a partial level was set at a depth of 430 meters. At a depth of 452 meters (- 380 m above sea level) the second building base was then added. The weather sole was later called the midsole and the first building sole and the partial sole were discarded . A brick Malakov tower was built over the shaft .

The first years of operation

In 1876 the extraction of hard coal began. Funding was gradually increased in the following years. The following year the mine was connected to the railway. In addition, ropeway was introduced this year . In 1879 a pit fan was installed. The economic slump in mining was not without consequences for the mine. This was mainly due to the fact that the mine was not yet fully developed. In 1881 the mine fields of the Fürst Hardenberg colliery in Lindenhorst were merged with those of the neighboring minister Stein colliery in Eving to form Vereinigte Stein & Hardenberg. For this purpose, a union with 1000 Kuxen was founded. After the merger, the mine field covered an area of ​​23 km 2 . In 1881 the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-Aktien-Gesellschaft (GBAG) decided to buy the United Stein and Hardenberg mine. However, GBAG wanted to get an idea of ​​the operational and economic conditions of the mine beforehand and took over the mine for a year on a trial basis. In 1882 there was a mine accident on Prince Hardenberg during a cable trip , in which 25 miners lost their lives.

After the trial run had ended to the satisfaction of GBAG, GBAG acquired 995 Kuxe from the union Vereinigte Stein & Hardenberg. Five of the 1000 Kuxe remained in the possession of the Disconto-Gesellschaft from Berlin for several years. The Fürst Hardenberg colliery had been running a Soolbad since 1884, which was also open to the public. In 1885 a carbon copy was made for the Minister Stein colliery. As a result, there was now an underground connection between the two mines. In 1888 the Disconto-Gesellschaft left the remaining five Kuxe to GBAG. On November 30 of the same year, GBAG dissolved the United Stein and Hardenberg union. In 1897 the sinking work for shaft 2 began. The shaft was placed next to shaft 1. The sinking work could be carried out quickly and without disturbing water inflows, so that the shaft reached a depth of 160 meters in the same year. 2. Above the Bausohle the seams 4, 5 and 6 were in Verhieb . The thickness of the three seams was between one and two meters. At that time the mine was part of the East Dortmund mining area . In the following year, shaft 2 reached the Carboniferous at a depth of 197 meters. In 1900, shaft 2 started mining, and from now on, shaft 1 was a weather shaft.

Further expansion and operation

In 1901 the Soolbad was closed. In 1945 the unified mine was again divided into two independently producing facilities. however, the United Stein & Hardenberg consolidation continued to exist. The main lift level was the 4th level. This level was at a depth of 454 meters (−380 m above sea level). Shaft 1 was 564 meters and shaft 2 was 560 meters. At this point in time, there was already another shaft, the weather shaft 6. This shaft, which was also called the Ernst Brandi shaft, was penetrable up to the 4th level. In 1848 the excavation work on shaft 2 was resumed and the shaft was sunk deeper. In the following year, the 5th level was set at a depth of 658 meters (−585 m above sea level). In 1950 the mine now had three shafts. Of these, one shaft was used for conveyance and cable travel, one shaft was used for cable travel and ventilation and the third shaft was purely a weather shaft.

The last few years until the shutdown

In 1950 the weather shaft 6 was handed over to the Minister Stein colliery. In 1953 the 5th sole was further aligned . In 1955 the 5th level became the extraction level. In the same year the breakthrough took place with the Königsmühle weather shaft of the Hansa colliery. As early as the following year, the owner company, Dortmunder Bergbau AG, planned to expand and merge the two mines Minister Stein and Fürst Hardenberg into a central shaft system. In the same year , a third track was laid on the 5th level of Fürst Hardenberg, in addition to the existing tracks with a track width of 553 millimeters. This track had a track width of 750 millimeters and should serve as a connecting track for the line support with Minister Stein. In 1957 the breakthrough took place on the 5th level with the Minister Stein mine . On January 1, 1960, the Fürst Hardenberg colliery was taken over by the Minister Stein colliery. On August 22nd of the same year, coal mining stopped. The degraded the construction site Prince Hardenberg coals were from that point on with Greater tram conveyed to the central shaft 7 by Prime stone and there after for days brought. In 1983, shaft 1 was backfilled . In 1987, when the Minister Stein colliery was closed, coal mining from the Fürst Hardenberg construction site using large-capacity conveyor vehicles was ended.

Promotion and workforce

The first known workforce figures come from 1872, when 64 miners were employed at the mine. The first production figures come from 1876, in that year a total of 2350 tons of hard coal were produced with 84 employees . In 1880, 383 employees produced 117,067 tons of hard coal. In 1881 the production was 130,000 tons of hard coal. In 1885 the production rose to 378,000 tons of hard coal. The workforce was 1270 this year. The maximum production of the mine was achieved in 1950. This year, 3246 employees produced 968,680 tonnes of hard coal. In 1955 the production sank to 911,590 tons of hard coal, the workforce was 3030 employees. In 1959, 2,497 people were still employed at the mine; 765,528 tons of hard coal were extracted. These are the last known sponsorship and workforce figures.

What is left

Today the remaining daytime facilities are under monument protection and were sold to two private individuals by the Foundation for the Preservation of Industrial Monuments and History in August 2012. The preserved Malakow tower is registered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dortmund . The Fürst Hardenberg logistics park was created on the site of the former mine.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m 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 f g h i j k l m Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957
  4. ↑ a b c d e Tilo Cramm: Dortmund mines in the picture. 1st edition, Regio-Verlag Peter Voß, Werne 2004, ISBN 3-929158-17-5 .
  5. ↑ a b Ministry of Commerce and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Volume forty-sixth, published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1898
  6. ^ Association for Mining Interests in the Upper Mining District Dortmund: The development of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian hard coal mining in the second half of the 19th century. Julius Springer's publishing bookstore, Berlin 1902, p. 318
  7. ^ Colliery Minister Stein in Dortmund-Eving 1856–1925. In: ruhrzechenaus.de. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  8. ^ Marita Pfeiffer: New owners for Zeche Fürst Hardenberg , in: Forum Geschichtskultur Ruhr 01/2013, page 78
  9. ^ Monument authority of the city of Dortmund (ed.): List of monuments of the city district Eving, No. A 0006. In: Das Dortmunder Stadtportal, Dortmund 2008
  10. ↑ Fürst Hardenberg logistics park , Dortmund on rag-montan-immobilien.de