Graf Moltke colliery
| Graf Moltke colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Graf Moltke colliery in 1965, seen from the southeast |
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| Funding / year | 1.25 million t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| End of operation | 1971 | ||
| Successor use | Residential development commercial space | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 33 '15.3 " N , 6 ° 59' 48.4" E | ||
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| Location | Gladbeck | ||
| local community | Gladbeck | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Recklinghausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill count Moltke was a coal - mine in Gladbeck .
history
In 1871 , several individual trades consolidated their minefield holdings in what is now the city of Gladbeck. The first shaft was dug in 1873 in the Rieckchen field area in the immediate vicinity of what was then the village of Gladbeck . This completely lined underground construction shaft , which was initially called Alter Fritz , reached the coal mountains in 1875 at a depth of 306 m and was sunk up to 458 m . After commissioning, the colliery was initially called the Rieckchen colliery . In 1879 a particularly rich coal seam was developed. Furthermore, further surrounding mine fields were connected through consolidation.
The operating company decided to honor the chief of staff of the Prussian Army of the War of 1870/71, Count Helmuth von Moltke , and so the coal seam with Helmuth and the consolidated company union of the coal mine Graf Moltke received his name. Between 1884 and 1887, shaft 2 was sunk next to shaft 1. In 1890 a water ingress forced the subsidy to be temporarily suspended. After the damage was repaired, the daytime facilities were modernized. New headframes were built over shafts 1 and 2 . A coking plant was also put into operation.
In March 1899, the trade union assembly accepted a takeover offer from the Steinkohlenbergwerk Nordstern corporation , and the union was liquidated.
Under the new leadership, the development of the southern parts of the field began in 1900. In Gladbeck-Brauck , on Helmutstrasse, shaft 3 was sunk from 1900 to 1903 and shaft 4 directly next to it from 1903 to 1905. This double shaft system was expanded as a separate conveyor system and equipped with an independent coking plant. After the First World War , the shaft 1/2 coking plant was shut down due to insufficient capacity.
Mine I / II around 1910
Mine III / IV around 1910
Together with the other Nordstern collieries, the Graf Moltke colliery became the property of Phoenix AG for mining and smelting in 1907 . And in 1926 she moved to Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG), which was closely linked to Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG . This summarized the mining operations rationally. Shaft 1/2 was taken out of production and continued to be operated as a cable car shaft . Shaft 3/4 was expanded to a central conveyor system by building new processing systems and strengthening the existing headframes . The total production per year was at times 1.5 million tons of coal. In 1930 the coking plant shaft 3/4 was shut down in favor of the greater expansion of large-scale coking plants on other GBAG shaft systems.
The Graf Moltke shafts survived the Second World War without any significant damage. After the Second World War, the mining operations were largely fully mechanized. Thanks to this increase in productivity, the Graf Moltke colliery was able to survive the coal crisis of the 50s and 60s. In 1969 it was incorporated into the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG with the remaining GBAG collieries .
Shutdown
In 1970 the Graf Moltke mine produced 1.25 million t of coal. The socially acceptable combination and reduction of the total funding had already been decided in the framework agreement for Ruhrkohle AG . As part of this overall adjustment plan for the Ruhr coal mining , the closure of the Graf Moltke colliery was planned for 1971 . On September 30th of the year the last shift was carried out.
The mine field was assigned to the neighboring mines for residual exploration. The staff members were distributed to the neighboring RAG shaft systems. The shafts were backfilled and the daytime facilities demolished in the following years (the parallel demolition of the headframe shaft 3/4 in 1972 was spectacular). The colliery wall has largely been preserved.
Current condition
Little has been preserved of the original mining buildings. The 1/2 pit, located on Horster Strasse, has been almost completely built over. The Brauck business park was built on shaft 3/4, in the immediate vicinity of the Essen / Gladbeck exit on federal motorway 2 . Part of the entrance area - used today by a metalworking company and an advertising agency, a chow building and the mining dump have been preserved.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann: Graf Moltke 1873 to 1971. The history of a colliery . Laupenmühlen & Dierichs, Bochum, undated
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. In: The Blue Books . 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended. Langewiesche publishing house , Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .