Holland colliery

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Holland colliery
General information about the mine
Ehm colliery holland bochum m goetze.jpg

View from the headframe to the mine site (2007)
Funding / year up to approx. 1.7 million t
Information about the mining company
Employees about 3000
End of operation 1988
Successor use Residential, commercial and green spaces
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '1 "  N , 7 ° 7' 35"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '1 "  N , 7 ° 7' 35"  E
Colliery Holland (Regional Association Ruhr)
Holland colliery
Location Colliery Holland
Location Ückendorf / Wattenscheid
local community Gelsenkirchen
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Gelsenkirchen, Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Zeche Holland was a hard coal mine with shafts in Ückendorf , a district of Gelsenkirchen since 1903 , and in Wattenscheid , a district of Bochum since 1975 .

Development and decommissioning

Dutch investors established in 1855, the mining corporation Holland to the mining concessions Carl Reinhard, Adelbert, Grove, Anton Ernst and Wupperthal in the communities Ückendorf and Wattenscheid to open up . The consolidation of the mining concessions under the name Holland took place in 1861. The shaft I in Ückendorf was the end of 1856 to a depth m of 68 to carbon sunk , and until 1963 in operation, shaft II also followed with 68 m in the same year and was closed 1958th Wattenscheider shafts III, IV, V and VI were sunk in 1873, 1898, 1907 and 1921 and abandoned due to exhaustion of coal in 1964, 1988 (shaft IV and VI) and already in 1935 (shaft V) and filled with overburden . The connecting line to the Gelsenkirchen station of the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME), which was built jointly with the United Carolinenglück , Hanover and Rheinelbe collieries , was put into operation on March 12, 1859. Track connections to the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) to the train stations Ückendorf (commissioning 1867) and Wattenscheid (commissioning November 28, 1876) followed.

The highest coal production of the Zeche Holland took place in 1969 (when most of the shafts had already been abandoned) with 1.7 million tons with a workforce of almost 3000 employees. In the 1970s, Holland was merged with the Zeche Zollverein to form a composite mine , whereby land sales continued to be served even after the coal mining had ended. The entire plant was finally shut down at the end of the 1980s.

Like many other industrial buildings in the Ruhr area, the facilities of the Zeche Holland were documented by the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher . The winding towers of the Holland I / II colliery in Gelsenkirchen are Malakow towers (built 1856–1860) and have been preserved to this day, it is the only double Malakow tower in Europe. Today apartments are housed in the towers.

present

The 22- hectare site in shafts III – VI on Lyrenstrasse / Lohrheidestrasse west of downtown Wattenscheid was extensively renovated from 1991 to 1993 and has since been used as a combined residential, commercial and green space. The listed complex of the Lohnhalle was renovated and expanded as part of the IBA Emscher Park . The pay hall itself has been used as an event center since 1998, and a technology center has been set up in the adjacent office space. The center initiated by the entrepreneur Klaus Steilmann was initially marketed as the “Eco Textile Technology Center”. Among other things, the company Phenomedia had its headquarters here. Now it operates as TGW (Technologie- und Gründerzentrum Wattenscheid). In 2012 it was 97% occupied by 32 companies (162 employees) with a rented area of ​​3,835 m² and for the first time generated a surplus.

Since mid-2002, the Gelsenkirchen facilities of the Holland mine shaft I / II have been privately restored and rebuilt. Residential and office buildings were built there, as well as a restaurant and a wine shop, which went into operation in mid-June 2006.

Preservation of the headframe

In 2011, the Ruhr development company acquired the headframe, which was erected above the Zollverein colliery in 1927 and moved to the Holland colliery in 1962, from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The tower was to be renovated for 1.3 million euros with state subsidies and, as the highlight of the commercial complex, provided with a viewing platform.

Investigations of the tower in 2013 showed, however, that the steel is in a worse condition than expected, as is the foundation of the scaffolding. The latter requires a reinforcement of the floor for an additional approx. 870,000 euros, while the renovation work on the steel in spring 2013 could not yet be quantified. The funds that were not called up now threaten to expire at the end of 2013.

In November 2013, a Facebook initiative was founded to prevent the tower from being demolished. In the course of the renovation work, the ailing shaft hall was demolished in early 2015.

  • Headframe of the Holland colliery in Wattenscheid

  • Double Malakow tower system Holland I / II

  • Mine I / II (Ueckendorf) around 1910

  • Shaft III / IV (Wattenscheid) around 1910

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations, with the participation of the Ruhr Mining Societies . Glückauf, Essen 1957.
  • Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. In: The Blue Books . 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .

Web links

Commons : Zeche Holland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 548 .
  2. ^ Page of EGR Bochum on the TGZ online ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 2, 2013)
  3. ↑ top v .: Steilmann opened the EcoTextil center . In: TextilWirtschaft No. 40 of October 1, 1998, page 8.
  4. ↑ Technologie- und Gründerzentrenbetriebsgesellschaft Ruhr-Bochum mbH, Bochum: Management report for the business year 2012 in the council information system of the city of Bochum
  5. ↑ Benjamin Hahn: Endangered headframe: renovation of the headframe of the Zeche Holland will be significantly more expensive , ruhrnachrichten.de, March 21, 2013, accessed on November 3, 2013
  6. ↑ Facebook initiative
  7. ^ Action to rescue the winding tower , derwesten.de, November 3, 2013, accessed on November 3, 2013
  8. ↑ Rapid demolition of the shaft hall. In: derwesten.de. WAZ.de, accessed on March 3, 2015 .