Gladbeck colliery

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Gladbeck colliery
General information about the mine
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1870
End of operation 1897
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 34 '18.6 "  N , 6 ° 58' 9.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 34 '18.6 "  N , 6 ° 58' 9.2"  E
Gladbeck Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Gladbeck colliery
Location Gladbeck colliery
Location Gladbeck / Bottrop
local community Gladbeck
District ( NUTS3 ) Recklinghausen
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Gladbeck colliery was a hard coal mine in Gladbeck and Bottrop . The mine was originally known as the Thyssen mine .

Mining history

In 1870 a union for mutation drilling was formed. Between 1871 and 1875 13 mutation boreholes were drilled. In 1873 the square fields Mathias, Maria and Katharina, which was initially only called Strasbourg I, were awarded . Other awards were the Geviertfelder Emilie, Elise, Hermann, Gretchen, Anna, Trautchen and Rieckchen. The Geviertfelder Anna, Gretchen and Rieckchen were sold to the Graf Moltke colliery shortly afterwards . In 1874 the Geviertfeld Wilhelm and Helene were awarded and the following year the Geviertfeld Louise was awarded. In 1876 the ten Geviertfelder consolidated into the Gladbeck colliery. The rightful covered an area of ​​21.9 km 2 . In the same year, a field exchange was carried out with the Graf Moltke mine. In 1888 a part of the mine field was separated, this separation mainly affected the quarter field Louise. After the separation of this sub-field, the rights covered an area of ​​19.7 km 2 . In 1895, the sinking of shaft 1 began, this is the Thyssen shaft in Gladbeck. In 1896 work began on sinking shaft 2 next to shaft 1. In 1897 , the Gladbeck colliery consolidated with further mine fields to form the United Gladbeck colliery .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c 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 Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  3. ^ Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957