Güldene Sonne mine

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Güldene Sonne mine
General information about the mine
other names Golden Sun colliery
Funding / year Max. 7115 t
Information about the mining company
Employees Max. 35
Start of operation 1835
End of operation 1876
Successor use Bill God's blessing
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 26'33.1 "  N , 7 ° 26'1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26'33.1 "  N , 7 ° 26'1"  E.
Güldene Sonne Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Güldene Sonne mine
Location Güldene Sonne colliery
Location Lottringhausen
local community Dortmund
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Dortmund
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Güldene Sonne colliery is a former hard coal mine in Löttringhausen- Kirchhörde. The mine was also known as the Zeche Goldene Sonne . In the second half of the 19th century, the Güldene Sonne colliery belonged to the mining area east of Dortmund.

Mining history

A length field was awarded on April 9, 1829 . On January 2nd, 1835, the mine was put into operation. A subsidy tax had to be paid to the Glücksanfang colliery, as the Güldene Sonne colliery also used the Markscheide shaft of the Glücksanfang colliery for mining . In the same year work began on digging its own shaft called the Eugenie shaft . The shaft was equipped with a horse peg. In November of the same year, dismantling began. In 1836 the mine was in yield . In 1840 Schacht Eugenie went into production. In 1842 the Eugenie shaft was sunk deeper as far as the Wiendahlsbänker Erbstollen sole . On March 15, 1845, the Güldene Sonne colliery was shut down. In 1869 the mine above the bottom of the tunnel was put back into operation, using the machine shaft of the Glücksanfang mine. The beneficiaries included the Längenfeld Güldene Sonne and Güldene Sonne 2. In 1876 the colliery was initially still in operation, in the course of the year the Güldene Sonne colliery was finally shut down. In 1903 the pit field of the Gottessegen colliery was closed.

Promotion and workforce

The first workforce and funding figures are given for the year 1835, 6196 bushels of hard coal were mined. In 1840 the production rose to 111,224 bushels. The maximum extraction was achieved in 1841, with 35 miners 142,296 bushels, which is the equivalent of about 7115 tons, were extracted from hard coal. In 1845 the production sank to 13,668 bushels of hard coal. In 1869, 162 tons of hard coal were mined with seven miners, and in the following year 307 tons of hard coal were mined with nine miners. In 1872 the production increased again to 2241 tons, this production was provided by seven miners. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1874, in that year 1,460 tons of hard coal were extracted with five miners.

What is left

A Schachtpinge , which probably comes from the Eugenie shaft, is one of the last relics of the Güldene Sonne colliery. A comparison with the Prussian first recording suggests this. The pinge is particularly pronounced and large; it probably broke again a short time ago. There is a small dump near the Schachtpinge . This heap was probably used to deposit the overburden from the underground operation. Both the Schachtpinge and the heap are located west of Blickstraße in a wooded area south of the A 45 motorway.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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 .
  2. ↑ a b Ministry of Commerce and Industry (ed.): Journal for the mountain, huts and saltworks in the Prussian state. Eighteenth volume, published by Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1870.
  3. ^ The early mining on the Ruhr: Schachtpinge von Güldene Sonne (last accessed on August 24, 2015).
  4. ^ The early mining on the Ruhr: Schachhalde von Güldene Sonne (last accessed on August 24, 2015).

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