Heinrich Gustav colliery
| Heinrich Gustav colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Arnold shaft of the Heinrich Gustav colliery |
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1859 | ||
| End of operation | 1929 | ||
| Successor use | Merger to form the Robert Müser colliery | ||
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| Degradation of | Bituminous coal / iron stone | ||
| Degradation of | Eisenstein | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '25.3 " N , 7 ° 17' 51" E | ||
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| Location | Werne | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Zeche Heinrich Gustav was a coal mine in Bochum district Werne .
Mining history
In 1854 the rights to the mining field Heinrich Gustav were granted for the mining of coal and iron stone . The first shaft , named after the mining captain Theodor Jacob, was sunk in 1855 . This shaft reached at a depth the coal-bearing strata of 58 meters and took 1859 promotion on. On October 16, 1860, coal was shipped by rail. The connecting line to the north side of the Langendreer station of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) went into operation in 1863. Another connection, now to the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE), was put into operation on November 19, 1874.
In 1858 the depth of a second shaft began. The Arnold shaft, named after the miner Arnold von der Becke , started mining in 1862. In 1880, 595 employees mined 143,000 tons of hard coal . To improve the weather underground, the Gustav weather shaft was sunk in 1880 . Production was further increased. In 1883, 234,000 tons of coal could already be mined. In 1896 the Arnold shaft became the main shaft and the production on the Jacob shaft was temporarily suspended, but the shaft continued to serve as a drainage system .
1905 bay Jacob went between the fourth and fifth floor to break . It was repaired in 1906 and put back into operation in 1907. In 1919 the Jacob shaft became a production shaft again. The production in 1925 was 429,000 tons with 1,880 employees. In 1927 the production in Schacht Arnold was stopped and Schacht Jacob took over the entire production of the colliery, which in 1928 reached almost 800,000 tons. In 1928, the Amalia colliery was taken over. In 1929 the merger to form the Robert Müser colliery took place with the expanded and rebuilt Arnold shaft as the central delivery shaft.
What is left
The Arnold shaft is used by Deutsche Steinkohle AG for water retention . Here is mine water lifted so that the workings of the distant mines, where coal still today is promoted not fill up uncontrollably.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor to Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 ( The blue books ).
- Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005. 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 534 .