Hammerbank colliery

Hammerbank colliery
	General information about the mine
other names	Hammerbanck colliery Hammerbank ; colliery under the tunnel sole
Funding / year	Max. 15,805 t
	Information about the mining company
Employees	Max. 89
Start of operation	1733
End of operation	1954
Successor use	Colliery Hammerbank under the tunnel sole
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '53 " N , 7 ° 17' 48.5" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '53 " N , 7 ° 17' 48.5" E
	Location Hammerbank colliery
Location	Heven
local community	Witten
District ( NUTS3 )	Ennepe-Ruhr district
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Hammerbank colliery in Heven is a former hard coal mine . The mine was also known as the Hammerbanck colliery . A tunnel of the mine was located southeast of today's memorial on Herbeder Straße.

History hammerbank

On January 21, 1732, the expectation of a coal bank in Wennescher Cleffe was inserted. This coal bank had fallen into the mountain free years earlier . The steel manufacturer Peter Lange zu Witten acted as mother . Peter Lange intended to mine this coal bank using an Akeldruft . On March 22nd of the same year, a length field was awarded above the bottom of the tunnel . On January 9th of the year 1733, Johann Peter Schönebeck and Johann Diedrich Fischer asked for a coal bank in Wanneschen Cleff. In the following months of this year an Akeldruft was driven up to the seam . After the Akeldruft up to the coal bank had been created, a length field under the tunnel sole was awarded on August 13 of the same year. Subsequently, operations below and above the tunnel sole were carried out separately at times. On September 14th, Johann Peter Schönebeck and Johann Diedrich Fischer & Konsorten received another courage certificate . The courage was valid for a coal bank that was located in the Hevischer Feld and had already fallen into the mountain free. In 1736 the mine was in operation. On September 17th of the same year, the trades Johann Diedrich Fischer, Hermann Vreede and Johann Peter Schönebeck protested against the activities of Peter Lange. Since the three trades had driven the tunnel through hard stone cliffs at high cost to the coal bank , they did not agree with Peter Lange's approach and insisted on a decision by the mining court .

In 1739 the mine was already closed. The mine was surveyed in 1755 . There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1762 and 1771. On February 28, 1771, Alexander Herdeegen, Wilhelm Herdeegen and Freiherr von Boenen zu Berge were recorded as trades in the documents of the Mining Authority. According to the statements of the Wilhelm Herdeegen trade, the legal fees are still being paid. There is evidence that the mine was also in operation in 1775 and 1796. On October 6, 1799, the Hammerbank colliery was shut down again. From May 1831 the mine was back in operation, the tunnel mouth hole was at a height of 78 meters above sea level . In 1838, the mine was initially still in operation independently, on March 26th or April 24th, 1838, there was partial consolidation under the tunnel floor to form the United King's Crown Mine . However, this consolidation only lasted a short time. In September 1844 the Hammerbank colliery was closed. In the 20th century, the Hammerbank colliery under the tunnel sole was put into operation as the Hammerbank colliery under the tunnel sole.

Promotion and workforce

The first known production figures come from the year 1835, when 30,636 bushels of hard coal were produced. In 1840 the production rose to 43,041 bushels of hard coal. The maximum funding of the Hammerbank colliery was provided in 1841, 11,740 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. The last known production figures of the mine come from the year 1844, in that year 11,630 bushels of hard coal were produced.

Hammerbank under the cleat sole

The Hammerbank colliery under the tunnel sole was put into operation on November 16, 1938 on the pit of the closed Hammerbank colliery. In the same year, work began on driving a tunnel cross-cut. The tunnel mouth hole was located 140 meters east of Menkenstrasse at a height of 87 meters above sea level. In 1939 work began on sinking the Nestor shaft, which took several tons . In 1940, the entitlement comprised five length fields. In 1941, three conveyor levels were aligned up to a striking length of 650 meters . On July 27, 1942, the Längenfeld Nestor was acquired and a tunnel was built on Herbeder Straße. The sixth level was set at a depth of 200 meters in the one-ton Nestor shaft . The tunnel crosscut was extended to align the lying seams and a blind shaft was created. It was planned to produce 500 tons of hard coal a day from this field. In 1945 the Nestor shaft and a tunnel were available. In the Hammerbank seam (seam Girondelle) mining was carried out up to location 5 , location 5 was at −4 meters above sea level. On April 6, 1946, the Hammerbank colliery below the tunnel floor was shut down by the military government. On October 9, 1951, the tunnel was put back into operation, owned by the Hammerbank union . On April 30, 1954, the Hammerbank colliery below the tunnel floor was finally shut down.

Promotion and workforce

The first production workforce numbers come from 1939, there were 21 miners on the mine who produced 2514 tons of hard coal. In 1940, 38 miners extracted 8010 tons of hard coal. In 1943, 42 miners extracted 10,065 tons of hard coal. In 1945 there was a drastic drop in production, with 21 miners producing 294 tonnes of hard coal. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1953, with 89 miners 15,805 tons of hard coal mined.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 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 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. A source on the early history of Ruhr mining, Wittnaack Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117 -9-7 .

Web links

Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Hammerbank (last accessed on June 30, 2014)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (last accessed on June 30, 2014)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (last accessed on June 30, 2014)
Finding aid (B 180 BA Oberbergamt Dortmund, company files): Operation of the Hammerbank hard coal mine (last accessed on June 30, 2014)
Street names: Shadows of the Past (last accessed June 30, 2014)

Remarks

↑ The term coal bank is the name for the coal-bearing part of a coal seam . (Source: Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann: Vademecum for the practical miner. )
↑ Peter Lange had already been enfeoffed with this coal bank years before, but had not driven a tunnel or had not penetrated to the seam. (Source: Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. )

[Quelle_1-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j 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 .

[Quelle_2-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. A source on the early history of Ruhr mining, Wittnaack Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117 -9-7 .

[Anm._Hartmann.-2] The term coal bank is the name for the coal-bearing part of a coal seam . (Source: Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann: Vademecum for the practical miner. )

[Anm._Schilp_.-4] Peter Lange had already been enfeoffed with this coal bank years before, but had not driven a tunnel or had not penetrated to the seam. (Source: Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. )