Colliery Merry Morning Sun.

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Colliery Merry Morning Sun.
General information about the mine
Bochum Wattenscheid - Fröhliche Morgensonne colliery 02 ies.jpg

Machine house
Funding / year up to 566,866 t
Information about the mining company
Employees approx. 2,000
Start of operation 1874
End of operation 1963
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 28 '4.4 "  N , 7 ° 8' 3.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '4.4 "  N , 7 ° 8' 3.9"  E
Fröhliche Morgensonne colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Colliery Merry Morning Sun.
Location Zeche Merry Morning Sun.
Location Wattenscheid-Westenfeld
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

Outbuildings and administration buildings with shaft marks

The bill Merry morning sun was a coal mine in the district of West field in the Bochum district Wattenscheid . It was in association with the Zeche Centrum . Their operations were stopped in 1963.

history

In 1874, the first was the shaft of the coal mine sunk , from 1878, the first through the coals were promoted. The connecting line to the Wattenscheid-Westenfeld station of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) was put into operation as early as 1877, and in 1878 a rail connection was added to the connecting line to the Holland mine shaft III / IV. A coking plant was added to the colliery in 1882, and a year later a weather shaft was put into operation. In 1903 a second shaft was put into operation. The coking plant was closed again in 1920, while the briquette factory completed in 1894 was only closed during the Second World War in 1942. The largest annual production in the time as a single mine was achieved by Fröhliche Morgensonne with 566,866 tons in 1913 with 1,949 employees.

In 1928 the association with the Zeche Centrum (shafts 2/5) was established after the mine fields of both mines had already been merged in 1924 . In the same year, the composite mine achieved the highest output of over 1.5 million tons. In 1929, the sinking of the new shaft 7 began. The composite mine Centrum / Fröhliche Morgensonne was shut down in 1963.

Current condition

At the current street Fröhliche Morgensonne there are still some original buildings of the former colliery such as the administration building, gatekeeper and machine house and workshops. Industrial companies have settled in these.

Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 495 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: Die alten Zechen an der Ruhr, 3rd edition 1990, p. 156

literature

  • Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr, 3rd edition 1990, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7

Web links

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