Ickern colliery
| Ickern colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1912 | ||
| End of operation | 1973 | ||
| Successor use | Shaft 3/4 as an outdoor facility from the Minister Achenbach mine until 1992 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 35 '38.9 " N , 7 ° 21' 20.3" E | ||
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| Location | Screeching | ||
| local community | Castrop-Rauxel , Waltrop | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Recklinghausen district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The coal mine seepage was a coal - mine in Castrop-Rauxel and Waltrop .
history
In 1871 the Victor trade union was founded in Rauxel, which, under the leadership of Friedrich Grillo and Ernst Waldthausen, acquired an extensive mine field between Rauxel , Ickern , Henrichenburg and Waltrop.
From 1905 Set around leakage around were mine fields "leakage" and "leakage sequel" to the mining plan included the colliery Victor. Extensive exploration work on the Victor 3/4 shaft system showed that the establishment of an independent conveyor system made sense. In 1908 the Ickern union was founded, in which the Victor union held the majority of the Kuxen . In 1910 the Ickern union became the property of the Lothringer Hüttenverein Aumetz-Friede AG .
In the same year, the sinking of shaft 1 began ( 51 ° 35 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 20.3 ″ E ). Due to the favorable conditions, the shaft was able to start mining as early as 1912 . Shaft 2, which was started next to shaft 1 in 1911, went into operation in 1914 ( 51 ° 35 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 23.8 ″ E ). It was initially only set up as a weather shaft .
The expansion of the daytime facilities of the Ickern 1/2 mine was carried out according to new technical aspects. For example, the use of steam hoisting machines was dispensed with. Each drive machine was fed electrically. This meant that, for example, there was no need to build a large boiler house on the mine site. Furthermore, due to the high capacity of the Victor colliery , the construction of an independent coking plant on Ickern was dispensed with. The mining of the mine developed steadily and soon reached the limit of 1 million tons per year.
After the First World War , the ownership structure was reorganized as the Lothringer Hüttenverein threatened to expire due to the new political situation. Peter Klöckner dissolved the Lothringer Hüttenverein in 1922 and took over both the Zeche Victor and the Zeche Ickern as well as several other mining operations in the Klöckner-Werke AG. The Victor-Ickern funding association was set up after the mines had been linked by a joint management team since 1917. In 1923, the Ickern 1/2 mine was occupied for one year by French occupation troops.
In 1938 the Ickern 3 shaft was sunk on the southern outskirts of Waltrop , it was initially used as a cable car and weather shaft and went into operation in 1942 ( 51 ° 36 ′ 24.1 ″ N , 7 ° 23 ′ 23.6 ″ E ).
After the Zeche Victor suffered severe bomb damage in World War II , the funding network was dissolved. This happened, among other things, because of the initially questionable reconstruction situation at the Victor 1/2 and 3/4 production sites. As part of the unbundling of the Klöckner works, the two mines Victor and Ickern were transferred to a separate management company. At the same time as the reconstruction of the Victor shafts, the Ickern 1/2 shaft was expanded into a modern connecting conveyor system.
Shaft Ickern 2 received a new, full-walled strut frame to accommodate a large-volume vessel conveyor . For a long time, this vascular extraction was the largest in the Ruhr district . 1949 to 1951 was also at Waltrop the shaft leakage 4 drilled ( 51 ° 36 '28.89 " N , 7 ° 22' 36.57" O ).
At the time, the Ickern colliery was producing 1.1 million tonnes of fatty and gas coal with 2,900 employees. In 1953, the Victor and Ickern collieries were returned to the Klöckner-Werke again. In 1955, Shaft Ickern 3 was expanded into a central material shaft. When the coal crisis began , the Victor-Ickern funding association was reinstated. This was done in 1962, initially with the temporary cessation of funding on Ickern and concentration on Victor 3/4 . Upon receipt of mines Victor-leakage into the Ruhr coal AG 1968, was promoting increasingly on the system leakage 1.2 with the powerful vessel conveying system moved. In 1970 the two mines together produced 2.23 million tons of coal annually.
Shutdown
As part of the overall adjustment plan for Ruhr mining, it was decided to withdraw the Victor-Ickern colliery in favor of expanding the neighboring pits. The remaining fields worth building in the northern field area of the Ickern colliery were assigned to the neighboring minister Achenbach in Lünen-Brambauer for further development .
On September 30, 1973 the last conveyor shift was run on Ickern 1/2 and on Victor 3/4 . The shafts Ickern 1/2 were filled . Ickern 3 and Ickern 4 were taken over by the Minister Achenbach colliery. The large delivery vessels of the Ickern 2 shaft were sold to the Ibbenbüren mine .
Current condition
The daytime facilities were almost completely demolished, as were the two Ickern outer shafts after Minister Achenbach was shut down in 1992. The AGORA cultural center is now located in a preserved chew building on Ickern 1/2 . The wooden plaque in front of the entrance is worth mentioning. The names of the miners who fell in World War I are carved into this wooden plaque. In front of it stands a wooden hand with a sword. The swastikas initially attached there were removed in 1946. This plaque was in the former wages hall until 1974, after the demolition of Ickern 1/2 an odyssey began with various storage locations. The plaque was restored through a private initiative and set up near the original location.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943