Flora mine
| Flora mine | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 70,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to approx. 150 | ||
| Start of operation | 1832 | ||
| End of operation | 1967 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '47.6 " N , 7 ° 12' 0.7" E | ||
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| Location | Weitmar | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Zeche Flora is a former hard coal mine in the Bochum district of Weitmar with two business premises. It was shut down in 1967.
history
The first subsidies existed between 1832 and 1890, then all the facilities were demolished. The colliery was first put back into operation in 1925 as Emil 1 . After several changes of ownership and bankruptcies, it came into the possession of the Hausbach union. It was extracted with a tonnage shaft near the Weitmar house . In 1937 an annual production of 69,946 t of hard coal was achieved , the number of employees was 161.
After the Second World War , new premises were laid out in the street Am Kuhlenkamp near the Hasenwinkel coal route in Weitmar-Mark. In 1948 two extraction shafts and a weather shaft were in operation. The colliery was shut down in 1964. The Gewerkschaftshaus Bach went on 31 March 1967 in bankruptcy . The miners didn't even get their tax cards back from last year.
Shafts
- 51 ° 26 ′ 54.8 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 1.9 ″ E (Zeche Flora, weather shaft Nordfeld,depth74 m)
Small mines
The Hausbach union or its sister unions Centrum & Co. , Wippsterz and Friedrichshöhe also operate other so-called small mines :
| Surname | place | Operating time | Funding maximum output (year) |
Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colliery bell | Bochum-Sundern | 1952-1960 | 8,929 t (1955) | 27 |
| Zeche Im Rauendahl | Bochum-Stiepel | 1952-1957 | 7,708 t (1954) | 29 |
| Johannisberg colliery | Essen-Freisenbruch | 1952-1960 | 15,729 t (1965) | 44 |
| Colliery Hermanns Gesegnete Schiffahrt | Hattingen-Welper | 1955-1967 | 37,872 t (1966) | 121 |
The mines in the Ruhr mining were mainly found in the vicinity of the Ruhr valley , where the Variscan orogeny left strong traces. Because of their mostly small fields, they were not as economical as the large mines in the north. However, the need for coal led to a renaissance of the small mines in the post-war period .
The machine house of the Flora colliery was later used by a cylinder head grinding shop, and the rest of the area was used by a metal collection company. In 1992, many documents relating to human resources and management were found in the attic during renovation work and handed over to the mining archive in the German Mining Museum .
File inventory
The holdings of the mining archive include journals such as dust books (to protect against coal dust explosions ), statistics on the consumption of pit wood and books for recording occupational accidents. The fatal accident happened only once. Smaller accidents were, for example, kicks in nails or head injuries from falling stones.
The correspondence includes applications for the operating facilities, but also legal matters. In one of the small mines a seam was found already dismantled . However, it could not be proven that this had only recently been done by a competitor. Another correspondence complained that the miners of another mine, smoking cigarettes, used the tunnels to get to their workplaces there.
The pit cracks from mining in several levels are also present in the existing structure.
Others
The memory of Zeche Flora is still present at both operating locations. At the older location, Florastraße is reminiscent of the Kleinzeche. In the street Am Kuhlenkamp there is a heavily modified machine house .
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 1994, 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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coordinates from the letter from E.ON Montan AG on the development plan 928 Franziskusstraße, available via the city of Bochum's information system (accessed on January 30, 2014)