Ignatius colliery
| Ignatius colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | Max. 1965 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1750 | ||
| End of operation | 1841 | ||
| Successor use | Brockhauser civil engineering colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '58.2 " N , 7 ° 12' 49" E | ||
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| Location | Stiepel | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Ignatius colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Bochum district of Stiepel , district of Haar. The mine was shut down and put back into operation several times. The mine was located north of today's Hülsbergstrasse.
Mining history
The beginnings
On November 28, 1748, the assumption was made that a deposit was located in the Hülsenberge . Jürgen Heinrich Wünnenberg, Heinrich Stollmann, HJ Haarmann and F. Brockhaus appeared as mother . The deposit was a coal bank that had been worked on in previous years. The field was the size of a treasure trove plus ten measurements . Already before the year 1750 mining was carried out in a seam , after which the mine was preserved for several years in time limits . In 1755 the pit field was measured . In 1761 the mine went back into operation. In 1763, a tunnel cross-passage was excavated , this tunnel cross-passage was the upper tunnel. The tunnel was driven from the Mittelkamps Siepen in a southerly direction to the seam. In Flözniveau the tunnel was stroking drove east. As the excavation continued, many geological faults were encountered. The investigation of the faults made it necessary for the trades to pay additional fines . In 1772 a new tunnel was excavated through the St. Georgen Erbstolln . The tunnel was called Tiefer Ignatius tunnel and was planned to open up more coal reserves. The tunnel was driven to the east and reached a total length of 414 meters. In 1775 the field Ignatius with the side bench was mentioned in the records of the Mining Authority . The mine was in operation in 1777 and 1778. In 1781 the Ignatius colliery was closed. The mine was back in operation in 1782 and closed again the following year.
The following years until the consolidation
In 1784 the mine had already been shut down for a long time. On June 1, 1784, the head of the Brandenburg mining district, Freiherr vom Stein , paid a visit to the mine to drive through it . The Ignatius colliery was the third mine that von Stein wanted to enter on his journey through the Brandenburg mountain area. Since the mine was out of operation at the time of the visit, he did not drive into the mine, but checked the coal heaps of the mine. Vom Stein gave information about the condition of the stored coals in his protocol. In particular, vom Stein criticized the poor condition of the coal stored. Due to the fact that the coals were very soft, the stored lump coals had already partially disintegrated into grus. In 1831 the merchant Franz Haniel acquired the majority of the mine’s Kuxe . A length field was awarded on February 5, 1819 . In July 1833, the deep tunnel was set up. The tunnel mouthhole was in Mittelkamps Siepen, 220 meters west of the old tunnel. The new deep tunnel was also set 14.6 meters deeper than the old tunnel. The new tunnel, which enabled deeper operation, brought little improvement. Despite the new, deeper tunnel, the production was three to five tons of hard coal. In 1835 a horse-drawn tram to the Ruhr was built. The horse-drawn tram was operated together with the Treue mine . In 1841 the Ignatius colliery was closed for good. On November 22nd, 1873 , the Ignatius colliery consolidated with other collieries to form Brockhauser Tiefbau colliery .
advancement
The first production figures come from the year 1836, 2382 ¼ tons of Prussian coal were produced . The maximum production was achieved in 1837, 1965 tons of hard coal were produced. After this maximum funding, funding steadily decreased. The last known production figures of the mine come from the year 1840, 1116 ½ tons of coal were mined.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning until 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 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through the coal mining industry on the Ruhr. 1st edition. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .
- ↑ a b c Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
- ↑ a b Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld: On the trail of coal mining. Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld-Verlag, Wetter-Wengern 1985, ISBN 3-922014-04-6 .
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Ignatius (accessed April 8, 2011)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: historical map around 1840 (accessed April 8, 2011)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed April 8, 2011)