Fortuna colliery (Witten)

Fortuna colliery (Witten)
	General information about the mine
	The mouth of the Fortuna tunnel to the east
	Information about the mining company
Employees	8-20
Start of operation	1742
End of operation	1925
Successor use	Fortuna colliery with information board
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 24 '49.8 " N , 7 ° 18' 58.4" E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '49.8 " N , 7 ° 18' 58.4" E
	Location Fortuna colliery (Witten)
Location	Herbede; ( Bommerholz-Muttental )
local community	Witten
District ( NUTS3 )	Ennepe-Ruhr district
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Fortuna colliery in the Herbede district of Witten ( Bommerholz-Muttental district ) is a former hard coal mine . The colliery was created from a commercial merger of the two collieries Fortuna to the east and Fortuna to the west . Parts of the mine are now part of the Muttental mining trail .

history

Fortuna to the east

On September 5 of the year 1742 took place award of a length field to the east of Muttenbach for the reduction in the seam Geitling. The Längenfeld Fortuna to the East was awarded to Gerhard Peter Mercklingshaus. The field was the size of a treasure trove and twelve measures to the east. There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1756; the conveyor tunnel was located in the Mausegatt seam in Muttental. The mine was operated together with the Fortuna mine in the west for years. In 1764 the colliery was measured as Fortuna to the east . On February 27, 1771, the Mercklinghaus siblings and the Oberste Frielinghaus inheritance were noted in the documents as trades . The trades had different numbers of kuxes . The legal fees were paid. In 1787 an entry was made in the Niemeyer map series , the mine was located north of Rauendahlstraße in the forest. From at least 1796 the mine was out of order. Since the St. John Erbstollen had now reached the seam Fortuna in 1826, proposed the trades as soon as possible coals dismantle . After the solution by the St Johannes Erbstollen, the mine was put back into operation in 1827. In 1847 was together with the bill Jupiter seigere shaft Juno to St. John Erbstollensohle geteuft . The shaft was also called the Jonas shaft and was also used for the mining of Jupiter and Glückstern at times. After 1847 the solution came from the Bommerbänker Erbstollen. In the years 1848 and 1850 the colliery was laid in time limits . From 1855 the colliery was merged with the Fortuna colliery in the west and renamed the Fortuna colliery.

Fortuna to the west

The Fortuna colliery to the west ( 51 ° 24 ′ 40.4 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 28.6 ″ E ) was popularly known as Dröge Köttel . On January 3, 1742, a length field west of the Muttenbach was awarded for mining in the Geitling seam. The widow Merklinghaus and the farmer Johann Diedrich Oberste Frielinghaus were enfeoffed with the pit field. The field was 25 measures to the west. The mine in Muttental was operated from 1756. The mine was initially operated together with the Fortuna colliery to the east for several years. Since the mine was due to its location in the valley very remote, which was on day removal of subsidized coal associated with great difficulties. For this reason, the western construction site was often not operated and was idle. In 1763, the approved Mining Authority lowering the carbon price for the conveyed on the mine coals. In 1764 the colliery was measured as Fortuna to the west . On February 27, 1771, the Mercklinghaus siblings and the Oberste Frielinghaus inheritance were noted in the documents as trades . The trades had different numbers of kuxes . The legal fees were paid. At that time, the trades intended to run the two parts of the company as independent mines as Fortuna in the West and Fortuna in the West. Johann Peter Mercklinghaus then wanted to have the rest of the loaned dimensions measured again. 51.411213888889 7.30795

In 1787 an entry was made in the Niemeyer map series, the mine was located on Berghauserstraße. The mine was out of order by 1796 at the latest. From April 1827 the mine was put back into operation and the deep Aurora shaft was sunk on Wilhelmshöhe. The shaft was located on Rauendahlstraße 300 meters east of the confluence with Berghauser Straße and was also called Große Fortuna. The promotion was driven by a horse peg . The depth was 100 meters and reached as far as the St. Johannes Erbstollen, for which the Göpel was also used. The Josephine and Beatiudo seams below could also be reached with the shaft. In 1828 civil engineering and the sinking of the August shaft began on the Aurora shaft. In 1830 the shafts August and Aurora into operation in 1835 and the third were sole in the shaft Aurora. In the years 1830 to 1831 a Göpelhaus and a mine house were built on the site of the Aurora shaft . The horses required to run the Göpel were provided by the Göpel driver HG Herberholz. In 1837 a new stable was built for the horses. In 1840 the Friedrich and Aurora shafts were in operation. This year a new and improved gopel basket was installed. This gopel basket was delivered by the entrepreneur Klingholz. After 1847 the solution came from the Bommerbänker Erbstollen. In the years 1848 and 1850 the mine was put in time limits . In 1852, mining for the St. Johannes Erbstollen and the Frielinghaus colliery was made in the Göpelschacht Aurora from a depth of 108 meters . From 1855 the colliery was merged with the Fortuna colliery to the east and renamed the Fortuna colliery.

Fortuna

In 1855, the Aurora and Juno shafts were operational. Starting this year, the previously separately named mines Fortuna to the east and Fortuna to the west, after the production and workforce were counted together, were also mostly named together. At that time, the mine belonged to the Märkisches Bergamts district and there to the jury district Hardenstein . This year work was carried out on both the Fortuna collieries in the east with the Juno shaft and Fortuna in the west with the Aurora shaft. In 1856 the Juno shaft was sunk deeper to the bottom of the St. Johannes Erbstollen and a horse peg was built. The horse peg that had been erected had previously been dismantled at the Friedrich shaft and mounted on a new foundation here at the Juno shaft. Towards the end of the same year, the shaft was completed to the bottom of the tunnel . The shaft had three strands , the two outer strands were used for the shaft conveyance and the middle strand served as a drive strand .

In 1860 the Fortuna construction site in the west was put back into operation. On May 20, 1862 the consolidation to the coal mine United Bommerbänker Tiefbau took place under the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole. In 1863, the Fortuna construction site to the east was reopened; work was carried out here within deadlines in 1875. In 1876, the Fortuna construction site transported to the west via the Glückstern shaft. In the following year, mining in the Aurora shaft was stopped. The Fortuna construction site in the west was in operation, but no coal was extracted. In 1882 the Fortuna construction site to the east was put back into operation. In 1884, production to the east on the Fortuna construction site was stopped. The Juno shaft was finally shut down in the same year. Only maintenance work was carried out on the Fortuna construction site, and in 1889 both construction sites were closed. In 1922, the Fortuna mine field to the west was reopened with a tunnel. On October 31, 1925, Fortuna in the west was shut down again and on February 25 of the following year the mine field was leased to the United Hermann mine. On February 29, 1928, the lease agreement was terminated after the Hermann colliery had been closed. In 1934 was in the Berechtsame started by the bill Jupiter with the loss. In 1951 the Fortuna colliery was reopened as the Fortuna small colliery.

Promotion and workforce

Although both mines were separate unions and companies, support and workforce were counted together. The first known production and workforce figures for the mines come from the year 1830, at that time 2818 tons of hard coal were extracted with 18 miners . In 1835, 24 miners extracted 64,693 bushels of hard coal. In 1840 there were 29 employees at the mine, which produced 18,444 Prussian tons of hard coal. In 1845, 86,592 bushels of hard coal were mined, the workforce fluctuated that year between 12 and 38 employees. In 1847, with 32–47 employees, 133,604 bushels of hard coal were mined. The first known production and workforce figures of the mine under the name Fortuna come from the year 1867. In that year the production had dropped to around 1,100 tons of hard coal. At that time the workforce at the mine was eight. In 1869, nine employees mined 1279 tons of hard coal. In 1874 the production sank to 1017 tons of hard coal, the workforce sank to eight miners. In 1876, 98,220 bushels of hard coal were mined with 20 employees. In 1882, five miners were employed on the Fortuna construction site to the east and 1,093 tons of hard coal were extracted, and three miners were also employed on the Fortuna construction site to the west. In the following year, eleven miners extracted 2,071 tons of hard coal. From 1885 to 1888 only two miners were employed at the mine. In 1923, 17 employees mined 908 tonnes of hard coal. The last production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1925. In that year, 13 people were employed at the mine. The production this year was around 2200 tons of hard coal.

Successor companies

Fortuna small mine

The Fortuna small mine was operated from February 15 to November 15, 1951 in the Muttental on the mine field of the Fortuna mine. The owners of this small mine were W. Asbach & E. Kessler. There were in the stalled day security pillars operated degradation, it was according to the degradation progress several small bays geteuft. The successor operation of this small mine was the small mine Fortuna in the east, possibly both small mines are identical to each other. In 1953, the authorized mine was put back into operation under the name Zeche Luckau . With these small mines was in several places in Muttental gleaning mining operation.

Small mine Fortuna to the east

On November 15, 1951, this small mine, which is presumably identical to its predecessor, the Fortuna small mine, was put into operation. The owners of this small mine were also W. Asbach & E. Kessler. This year, 523 tons of hard coal were mined. On April 30, 1952, the Fortuna small mine to the east was shut down. In 1953, the authorized mine was put back into operation under the name Zeche Luckau.

Luckau

The Luckau colliery in Vormholz was also a small mine in the Muttental and arose from the small mine Fortuna and the small mine Fortuna in the east, owner of this small mine was Helmut Schönfeld. The mine was in operation from March 1953 to August 31 of the same year, during which time two miners extracted 419 tons of hard coal. On August 19, 1955, the mine was deregistered. On February 15, 1957, the mine was finally shut down.

Todays use

Fortuna colliery

All that remains of the Fortuna colliery is the Fortuna colliery ( 51 ° 24 ′ 40.5 ″ N , 7 ° 18 ′ 28.8 ″ E ). This colliery house was built in 1830 to supplement the existing Aurora shaft. In the meantime, the colliery has been converted into a residential building; it is located on Rauendahlstrasse 166 between Berghauser Strasse and Muttentalstrasse. An information board of the Friends of Mining Historic Sites in the Ruhr Area, a few meters from the house, indicates the house. 51.411238888889 7.3080055555556

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa 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 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Gerhard Koetter (Hrsg.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. A source on the early history of Ruhr mining, Wittnaack Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117 -9-7 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
↑ Ludwig Herrmann Wilhelm Jacobi : The mining, metallurgy and trade of the government district Arnsberg in statistical representation. Published by Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857.
↑ The early mining of the Ruhr: Zechenhaus Fortuna (last accessed on April 17, 2014)

Web links

Early mining on the Ruhr: Fortuna colliery (last accessed on April 17, 2014)
Early mining on the Ruhr: historical map around 1840 (last accessed on April 17, 2014)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (last accessed on April 17, 2014)

[Quelle_1-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa 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 .

[Quelle_5-2] Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .

[Quelle_4-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Gerhard Koetter (Hrsg.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .

[Quelle_7-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. A source on the early history of Ruhr mining, Wittnaack Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117 -9-7 .

[Quelle_2-5] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .

[Quelle_3-6] Ludwig Herrmann Wilhelm Jacobi : The mining, metallurgy and trade of the government district Arnsberg in statistical representation. Published by Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857.

[Quelle_6-7] The early mining of the Ruhr: Zechenhaus Fortuna (last accessed on April 17, 2014)