Colliery Helene (Witten)
| Colliery Helene | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Colliery Helene |
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| Funding / year | approx. 213,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | approx. 900 | ||
| Start of operation | 1856 | ||
| End of operation | 1896 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '37 " N , 7 ° 18' 33" E | ||
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| Location | Heven | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Helene colliery was a hard coal mine in Heven .
Mining history
As early as 1791, the Helena union was operating tunnel mining on the outskirts of Heven . After the coal reserves above the bottom of the tunnel had been exhausted , the colliery began sinking the 405 m deep Helene shaft in 1856 in order to switch to civil engineering . From 1861 onwards, the coal extracted was transported to the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn in Witten via a double-track horse - drawn railway . Before that, coal sales had gone through the Helena Erbstollen to the Ruhr .
In 1883, Helene merged with the Nachtigall colliery, which is located in Bommern directly on the Ruhr, to form the Helene-Nachtigall colliery . Both pits were connected to each other in 1884 at a depth of 315 m by a cross passage under the Ruhr.
1889-1892 Helene received a coal washing plant , a coking plant with 90 ovens, a briquette factory and a weather shaft with a fan. During this time, the mine achieved its highest annual output of 213,000 t with almost 900 men .
With the water inflow of a maximum of 11 m³ per minute, the mine ran into considerable economic difficulties. In 1892, Nachtigall was shut down, followed by Helene in 1896. Immediately after the Second World War, local residents searched for coal as fuel again in an improvised manner. The shaft was offset next to and under the former red ash sports field of TuS Heven . Shortly after the opening of the field (until 1953 the club had played in the "Aue" near the stainless steel plant) there was a break in the middle of the field; luckily there was no match and nobody was injured. The square had to be re-secured with appropriate steel and concrete protection. Since 2010, this area has been built on with a supermarket and parking lot - on the northern edge of the Witten district, on Haldenweg . The outbuilding of the dismantled headframe still serves as a modest residential dwelling.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr (= the blue books ). 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition 1990. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 , p. 242.
- 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 .