Colliery Haus Aden

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The Haus Aden colliery was a hard coal mine in Bergkamen - Oberaden . It closed in 2001.

history

The beginnings and the name of the mine

The first activities to build a mine in this area go back to 1875. The Grubenfelder Haus Aden was acquired by the trades Emil Ebbinghaus (Asseln) and Heinrich Grimberg (Bochum).

The name indicates the area of Ober- and Niederaden. The von Aden family and their knightly seat on the right bank of the Seseke , which forms the border between Ober- and Niederaden, are recorded in medieval sources . Only the Aden mill remained from the former manorial estate.

Sinking, start of mining, World War II and post-war period

Shaft 2, which still exists today and is open for dewatering

In 1938, work began on sinking a double shaft system, initially with shaft 2. The drilling of shaft 1 began the following year. Shaft 2 hit the coal mountains in 1939 at a depth of 456 m . In 1941, shaft 2 reached its final depth at 924 m.

Shaft 2 started mining in 1943. This year the production was just over 60,000 tons of coal (with 1,080 employees). The workers included many Russian and Polish prisoners of war and forced labor . At the end of the war, production had to be temporarily suspended in the spring of 1945. In mid-1945 it was resumed on a modest basis. In 1950 the production amounted to around 596,000 tons (with 2,335 employees). In 1955, the expansion of the facility was continued according to plans by Fritz Schupp , who was one of the most important architects of industrial buildings at the time. In the same year, the digging of shaft 5 (for ventilation ) began. In 1956, annual production of more than one million tons of hard coal was achieved for the first time .

From the 1960s to the 1980s

In 1964 1,000 employees had to be laid off due to the coal crisis, a quarter of the entire workforce. In 1965 the annual production was 1.33 million tons. In 1970 the Grimberg 3/4 mine and the Haus Aden mine were cut through ; In 1974 Grimberg 3/4 became part of Haus Aden. In 1985 the mine fields brought in by the Gneisenau colliery were connected to the Victoria and Kurl collieries , so that from then on a 38 km 2 mine field could be mined from Haus Aden. The highest annual production was achieved in 1986 (3.9 million tons). By the end of April 1988, around 120 million tons of coal had been mined from the Haus Aden, Grimberg 3/4, Victoria and Kurl mine fields.

The reserves of the deposit, which had been developed since 1940, were gradually running out. In order to secure jobs and to be able to continue using the modern conveying, processing and loading facilities in Bergkamen-Oberaden, planning began in the early 1970s for a connecting mine north of Haus Aden. Including this northern field, the mine field covered 80 km². Extensive myelin sheath step studies identified a deposit of 150 million tons of coal with a low noise , flat storage of the seams m to a depth of 1300th The decision to build the connecting mine "Haus Aden Nordfeld" (the designation) was made at the end of 1977. As a result, three new shafts were sunk: two weather shafts (shafts 5 and 6) and the Romberg cable car shaft in Werne-Langern (shaft 7) . Shaft 6, with a depth of 1388 m, was the deepest shaft in the Ruhr area at the time . Shaft 7 had a depth of 1045 m and a diameter of 7.5 m. The mining of the coal mined in the new mining field (Nordfeld) and the material transport took place via shafts 1 and 2 (main shaft system 1/2) 5 km away.

In 1988 the new Romberg mine with the daytime facilities (mowing and operations building, shaft hall, switch house, gas extraction and heating center) was completed. A technical novelty realized for the first time at shaft 7 was the electric motor in the traction sheave of the hoisting machine , which enabled a smaller construction volume and the storage of the hoisting machine through the use of roller bearings . In the north field, production began in July 1988 in the Albert / Robert seam. Another temporarily planned shaft (shaft 8) was no longer built.

Mergers with neighboring pits and shutdown

In 1993 the mines Haus Aden and Monopol merged . At that time it was the largest composite mine in Germany.

In 1998 another merger followed, with the Heinrich-Robert colliery in Hamm to form the Ost mine .

In 2001 - only 3 years after the second merger - the pits of the former Haus Aden colliery were shut down. The east mine remained in operation until 2010. The last cable ride of the east mine took place in 2011 over the Lerche shaft .

Current condition

Today only a few of the collieries are left.

  • Of the main conveyor shaft system 1/2, only shaft 2, which is still needed for the water drainage, and an operating building are available. The dewatering is to be stopped there in the foreseeable future.
  • Shaft 1 and the radio tower next to it were blown up in 2005.
  • At shaft 5 there is only one company building.
  • At shaft 6 only a Protego hood can be seen.
  • At the former location of shaft 7 (Romberg) there is only one shaft pipe. The 136-ton headframe was transported to Hamm on March 28, 2001 over a distance of 35 kilometers. It served as the Lerche Shaft until 2011 and is now part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

literature

  • Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr (series The Blue Books ). Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus, 3rd completely revised and expanded edition. 1990, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 , pp. 136-139.

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus, 3rd edition 1990, p. 137.
  2. ↑ A Liudolphus de Adene is proven in documents as early as 1150, around 1410 a Hermann to Adene acquired the Overvelt estate (Oberfelde in Lower Saxony) as a Volmarstein fief, in 1554 Caspar von Schwansbell - near Lünen - was enfeoffed with Aden; his son Balster carried the name of Schwansbell zu Oberfelde and Aden. (See Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus, 3rd edition 1990, p. 137)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . Karl Robert Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus, 3rd edition 1990, p. 138.
  4. ↑ The early end of a young mine , industriedenkmal.de, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ Stefan Gehre: House Aden: backfilling of the shafts is being prepared . In: Westfälischer Anzeiger , Bergkamen edition, January 30, 2018, accessed on January 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Schacht Lerche , route-industriekultur.ruhr, accessed on January 11, 2019.

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