Graf Schwerin colliery

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Graf Schwerin colliery
General information about the mine
Graf Schwerin colliery 1909.jpg
historical postcard view from 1909
Mining technology Underground mining
Information about the mining company
Operating company Union of Graf Schwerin / Union of Lorraine / Eschweiler Mining Association
Start of operation 1878
End of operation 1967
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '34.4 "  N , 7 ° 20' 8.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '34.4 "  N , 7 ° 20' 8.5"  E
Graf Schwerin Colliery (Ruhr Regional Association)
Graf Schwerin colliery
Location Graf Schwerin colliery
Location Schwerin
local community Castrop-Rauxel
District ( NUTS3 ) Recklinghausen district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The bill count Schwerin was a coal - mine in Castrop-Rauxel .

history

1872-1900

In the years 1857 and 1858 were more mining concessions under the name Novaesium to mining companies from Neuss (lat. Novaesium) awarded . The mine field property extended on the eastern city limits of today's city of Castrop-Rauxel to Dortmund , in the area of ​​the places Frohlinde , Westrich , Oestrich and Merklinde .

In 1872 the union of the Graf Schwerin colliery was founded. Whether the name was named after Field Marshal Graf Schwerin or the Prussian Minister of State of the same name cannot be determined with certainty. Shaft 1 was sunk from 1872 to 1875 ( 51 ° 32 ′ 34.4 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 8.5 ″  E ). It was equipped with a Malakow tower and was initially used for personal use. From 1878, full funding operations began, and the first shipment of coal to the Emscher Valley Railway in station Merklinde took place. The plant colonies that developed near the shaft formed the basis for today's Schwerin district .

In the beginning, the colliery had to struggle with strong water inflows . In some cases, entire mining operating points were temporarily under water and had to be swamped at great expense . In 1880 the production had to be temporarily suspended. With considerable capital contributions from the trades (the shareholders of the mining trade union ), extensive mud measures had to be taken again.

In 1884 the water problem was resolved to such an extent that production could be fully resumed. In 1887, a coking plant was put into operation next to shaft 1 . To improve weather management , in 1891, next to shaft 1, shaft 2 was sunk ( 51 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 10 ″  E ). This was initially equipped with a smaller headframe .

At the same time, the Graf Schwerin union joined the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate (RWKS). This sales cartel coordinated the promotion and sales of the various mining companies.

1900-1961

From 1903 to 1906 the Graf Schwerin 3 shaft ( 51 ° 33 ′ 22 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 59.8 ″ E ) was sunk  in things , and from 1908 it was also operated as a production shaft. Another coking plant was put into operation at the Graf Schwerin 1/2 mine to recycle the coal extracted from shaft 3. It was transported there by cable car . The planned next to shaft 3 shaft 4 was initially deferred .

1919 took over mining AG Lorraine the Kuxenmehrheit the union Graf Schwerin. As part of the ensuing years of economic turbulence that had funding be set to slot 3 temporarily. In 1932, at the height of the global economic crisis, the general closure of shaft 3 and the older coking plant was ordered. Shaft 1/2 was maintained by day shifts. With the changed economic conditions in the late 1930s, Bergbau-AG Lothringen took over the Graf Schwerin mine completely and expanded it. Large full-walled strut frames were erected over shafts 1 and 2 .

In 1938, mine 3 was also started up again. By 1940, in addition to shaft 3, shaft 4 was sunk as an additional weather shaft and put into operation ( 51 ° 33 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 1.3 ″  E ). At times the production reached 980,000 tons of coal annually. In the course of the air war, the coking plant at shaft 1/2 was badly damaged and had to stop operating in 1945. After the reconstruction work had been completed, the coking plant was fully operational again in 1948.

In the context of the onset of the coal crisis , Bergbau-AG Lothringen began to rationalize and consolidate its production shafts. In 1960 the processing plants of Graf Schwerin 1/2 and 3/4 were taken out of operation. From then on, the coal was transported over the course of the day to the Lorraine colliery in Gerthe , which was also part of Bergbau-AG Lothringen and processed there. From 1961 the two mines operated under the name Verbundbergwerk Lothringen / Graf Schwerin , which was shut down in 1967.

Current condition

Both colliery sites were built over for commercial use in the following years. From January 2009 the site of the former coal mine 1/2 was renovated. In the meantime, an Edeka supermarket and a discounter have been set up.

literature

  • Karl Brinkmann. History of the Graf Schwerin colliery. In: Castrop-Rauxel. Development of a city in the Westphalian industrial area. Schmitz siblings Buchdruck, Castrop-Rauxel, 1967, pp. 202–211.
  • Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943
  • Norbert Meier and Martin Lochert: Zeche Graf Schwerin - From the mine to the district , 1st edition 2011, self-published by the Förderverein Bergbauhistorischer Stätten Ruhrrevier e. V., ISBN 978-3-00-035695-7

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