Fritz-Heinrich colliery
| Fritz-Heinrich colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Postcard No. 12114 from Reinicke & Rubin |
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1859 | ||
| End of operation | 1973 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 '34.6 " N , 7 ° 0' 40.3" E | ||
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| Location | Elderly food | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The colliery Fritz-Heinrich was from 1859 to 1973, a coal - mine in Essen .
history
1852-1913
In 1852 the industrialist Friedrich Grillo founded the Mining Association Neu-Essen , based in Altenessen. This company operated as a stock corporation and had merged various mining fields north of Altenessen and west of Hessler under the names Heinrich Theodor and Fritz .
In 1855 the first shaft was sunk in the Heinrich Theodor field north of the Altenessen market . This shaft went into operation in 1859 and was equipped with a Malakow tower . In 1872 the Fritz field to the north was opened up by a shaft. This was on Heßlerstrasse and went into operation in 1875; it was also equipped with a Malakow tower. An underground connection was excavated between the two shafts . The two production shaft systems developed very promisingly, since the extracted fat and gas coal could easily be sold as coking coal .
From 1890, the expansion of both shafts was increasingly tackled. Next to the Heinrich Theodor shaft, a weather shaft was first sunk. From 1895 to 1897, the Fritz 2 shaft followed as the new main production shaft for the Fritz mine. Heinrich Theodor shaft was fitted with a drawn-in headframe on the Malakow tower in 1896.
From 1901 the Heinrich Theodor colliery was only referred to as the Heinrich mine. In addition to the Heinrich 1 shaft, the Heinrich 2 shaft was sunk and put into operation in 1903. The colliery was henceforth called the Fritz-Heinrich colliery . From 1911, preparations were made to merge the Neu-Essen Mining Association with the Cologne Mining Association . As of January 1, 1912, the Cologne-Neu-Essen Mining Association was the operating company for the Fritz-Heinrich colliery as well as for the neighboring Emil-Emscher colliery .
1913-1945
The new operating company has now expanded the coal recycling plant at the Fritz-Heinrich colliery. Coking plants were put into operation on both Fritz 1/2 and Heinrich 1/2 . At times, production reached 1.2 million t of fat and gas coal on both pits. There are links to the neighboring mine Emil-Emscher ascended.
From 1921 there was an interest group between the Cologne-Neu-Essener Bergwerkverein and Hoesch AG . In 1930 Hoesch AG took over the entire mine property . In the following years, the production operations in the northern Essen area were rationalized. The coking plants were both shut down in favor of a new coking plant on Emil 1/2 . Until 1935, the Fritz-Heinrich extraction was carried out on the Fritz 1/2 mine.
The Fritz 1/2 daytime system was completely renovated by the architect Fritz Schupp . A comprehensive new preparation was built. Both shafts received identical full-walled strut frames that faced each other for aesthetic reasons. Shaft Heinrich 1 received a new scaffolding on the Malakow tower for its new task as the central cableway shaft for the southern field.
Around 1945 the Fritz 1/2 mine was completely out of order for mining due to bomb damage. The production was temporarily raised above the Heinrich 1/2 mine.
1945-1965
After the reconstruction, the production was soon able to reach the value of 1.1 million t annually again. The Altenessener Bergwerks AG as the successor company of the disengaged Hoesch AG took over the Fritz-Heinrich mine. From 1957, preparations were made to merge the Fritz-Heinrich colliery with the neighboring Emil-Emscher colliery to form a joint mine .
The new Hansen shaft, which was equipped with a modern four-rope vessel conveyor, was sunk on the Fritz 1/2 facility . It went into operation in 1961. Also in 1961, Hibernia AG bought the mine field from the closed Wilhelmine Victoria mine with shafts 1/4 and 2/3. The production rose to 1.6 million t of fat and gas coal. From 1965 the association with the Emil-Emscher colliery was completed. From then on, the colliery was part of the Emil-Fritz mine .
Current condition
After the composite mine was shut down in 1973, the shafts were backfilled and some of the daytime facilities were demolished. The Hansen winding tower was blown up in 1979. After the demolition of all buildings, there are new businesses on Heinrich 1/2. A large part of the area is built over with residential houses. Some parts of the development on Fritz 1/2 have been preserved and include restaurants, an architecture office and publishing houses.
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 3-7845-6994-3 .
- 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 .