Friedrich Thyssen colliery

Friedrich Thyssen colliery
General information about the mine
Friedrich Thyssen colliery 1959
Information about the mining company
End of operation	1976
Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '39.7 "  N , 6 ° 46' 4.8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '39.7 "  N , 6 ° 46' 4.8"  E
Location Friedrich Thyssen colliery
Location	Hamborn
local community	Duisburg
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Duisburg
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

The bill Friedrich Thyssen was a coal - mine in Duisburg . It was named after Friedrich Thyssen (1804–1877), the father of August Thyssen (1842–1926).

Headframe of shaft 6 of the Friedrich Thyssen colliery in Hamborn ; today part of the route of industrial culture .

History before 1945

The mine was founded in 1919 as the operating company of the newly founded "Friedrich Thyssen" union . It took over the German Kaiser 1/6, 2/5, 3/7 and 4 pits from the split-up German Kaiser Union .

The individual pits, whose total production during the First World War had at times exceeded 5 million tonnes of coal annually, continued to operate as separate factory directors. In 1926 they became part of the Hamborn group of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG .

In 1922, work began on sinking the deferred shaft 8 on the Friedrich Thyssen 4 facility . This went into operation in 1925; from now on all Thyssen shaft systems were complete double shaft systems.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, several secondary shafts were also in operation to ensure weather management and dewatering in the mine fields .

Of these shafts , the Rönsbergshof shaft was expanded as an independent extraction shaft in 1915. It was an independent conveyor system until 1931 and was then transferred to the Westende colliery , along with the southern parts of the field . In return, the Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 plant gradually relocated dismantling to the northeast. For this purpose, shaft 5 of the adjacent Neumühl colliery was taken over and in future run as the Wittfeld outer shaft .

In 1928 the Friedrich Thyssen 1/6 shafts were shut down as a conveyor system in 1928. 1932, during the Great Depression , the promotion was to Friedrich Thyssen 3/7 set.

At the same time, the Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 shaft was generously expanded into a central conveyor system. Well 2 a new, solid wall was striving frame to take over the promotion in Großraumwagen. The Friedrich Thyssen 1/6 pit was assigned to the 2/5 as a cable car and weather pit . At the same time, the Wehofen colliery , which was closed in 1933, and the former Pollmannshof dewatering shaft were operated as outdoor facilities.

The Friedrich Thyssen 3/7 mine was handed over to the Beeckerwerth colliery to the west as an outdoor facility .

The coking plants of the Friedrich Thyssen 3/7 and 4/8 plants continued to operate and expanded into central coking plants.

During the Second World War , the 4/8 mine in particular was damaged by bombs. A headframe was erected above shaft 4 , which was structurally identical to that above shaft 8.

History after 1945

After the Second World War, the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG's minefield ownership was disentangled. The Thyssen shafts were assigned to Hamborner Bergbau-AG and operated there independently in the subsidiary Friedrich Thyssen Bergbau-AG . Furthermore, the coking plant Friedrich Thyssen 3/7 was finally assigned to August-Thyssen-Hütte in 1953 .

In the coal crisis that began in 1957/58, Friedrich Thyssen Bergbau-AG decided relatively early on to take drastic rationalization measures. Shaft 1 was backfilled in 1956 . In 1959, the Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 conveyor system with the Wittfeld side shaft was completely abandoned due to the lack of migration opportunities. Friedrich-Thyssen 4/8 was the first large mine to be closed in the course of the coal crisis. The protests marked the beginning of the large protests against the collapse dying, which dragged on into the 1990s. The shafts of Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 were filled and the daytime facilities were demolished. The 4/8 coking plant continued to operate for the time being.

At the end of 1968 the Friedrich Thyssen Bergbau-AG merged with the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG . The mine Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 with the shafts Thyssen 2/5 and 6, Wehofen 1/2 and the coking plant Thyssen 4/8 were transferred to Bergbau AG Oberhausen .

Shutdown

In the mid-1970s, the decision was made to close it down, as the coal that was still available could no longer be mined economically. In addition, the first oil price crisis had caused a recession, the end of 1975 not in sight. In 1975 a water solution line was driven to the neighboring Walsum mine . The shafts Wehofen 1/2 were handed over as a drainage shaft system .

In 1976 the Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 colliery was shut down and in 1977 the Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 coking plant .

Current condition

Almost nothing has been preserved from the daytime facilities of these large shafts. Only the shaft structure at Friedrich Thyssen 6 has been preserved as an industrial monument . The “Employment Agency” (employment office) is located on the site of shaft 1/6. There is a mine gas utilization system at shaft 1. An IKEA furniture store has been located on the site of the Thyssen 4/8 coking plant, which had been fallow for decades. The two manhole covers and the mine entrance are still there. In 2015 the filling column in shaft 4 sagged by 15 meters and then had to be renovated. 2/5 is still fallow. The site is to be converted into a park, work on this has not yet started (as of June 2019). Some of the 3/7 buildings are still used by ThyssenKrupp as warehouses or offices.

In 2017 the Montanhistorik Schacht 4/8 eV was founded in order to put the last remaining remains of the Friedrich-Thyssen 4/8 mine into a meaningful use. The previously stolen shield from shaft 8 was renewed. Negotiations about the use of the porter's building failed. On February 26, 2019, the association illuminated the headframe of shaft 6 together with the technical relief organization for an evening.

Locations

The pits were located at the following locations:

• Friedrich Thyssen mine 1/6: 51 ° 29 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 4.8 ″  E
• Friedrich Thyssen pit 2/5: 51 ° 30 ′ 44.9 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 48.3 ″  E
• Friedrich Thyssen pit 3/7: 51 ° 29 ′ 23 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 17.4 ″  E
• Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 mine: 51 ° 28 ′ 47.3 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 50.8 ″  E
• Wehofen 1/2 shaft: 51 ° 31 ′ 57.8 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 36.4 ″  E

literature

• Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein im Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943
• 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
• Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg: Duisburg mines in historical photographs , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-747-9

Web links

Commons : Zeche Friedrich Thyssen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~17~11744
• Description of the black and white side of the coking plant coking plant Friedrich Thyssen 4/8 and picture gallery
• Photo of the pit in 1966 with school class (digit.wdr.de)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gregor Herberhold: Friedrich-Thyssen-Schacht in Duisburg is in danger of collapsing. May 4, 2015, accessed on June 22, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ To us at "Montanhistorik Schacht 4/8 eV" it is important to preserve, pass on and convey the mining traditions, knowledge and technology in Duisburg. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Shaft 6 headframe shines for an evening. WAZ, February 26, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2020 (German).