Johannessegen mine
| Johannessegen mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Johannis blessing colliery | ||
| Funding / year | Max. 144,502 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to approx. 532 | ||
| Start of operation | 1874 | ||
| End of operation | 1921 | ||
| Successor use | Alte Haase colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '18.2 " N , 7 ° 12' 6.3" E | ||
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| Location | Hattingen-Bredenscheid-Stueter | ||
| local community | Hattingen | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Johannessegen colliery is a former hard coal mine in Hattingen- Redenscheid-Stüter. In the 19th century the colliery was also known under the names Zeche Johannis Segen and Zeche Johannes Segen . The mine was created from the amalgamation of several small authorized persons in the area of the Bredenscheider Mountains and the Kuhweidermark.
Mining history
The beginnings
On August 28 of 1793 which took place ceremony of a length field . In the years 1796 to 1847 and 1855 the colliery was not mentioned in the documents. In 1874 coal was extracted on a small scale. A tunnel was excavated in the upper Paasbach valley, near Hackstück, and the tunnel was driven in a south-westerly direction. Mining was carried out for a while, and the tunnel was temporarily out of order. In 1887 the tunnel reached a length of around 800 meters. In the same year, a siding to Bredenscheid train station was put into operation. In 1892 a conveyor tunnel and a barrel- length shaft existed; the rights covered a length field. The shaft had a shallow depth of 45 meters. At that time, too, the mine was temporarily out of order. The shaft was abandoned in 1893. On September 1st, 1897, it was consolidated with the Hopesthal colliery . In the year 1899, the contractor Leo Hanau brought the Hope Valley trade union into the Westfälische Kohlenwerke AG. This company had been founded shortly before in Brussels as SA des Charbonnages Westfaliens and through this action had come into the possession of all Kuxe of the union Johannessegen. Thus the Johannessegen mine was under the influence of Belgian capital .
The further operation
At the beginning of the 19th century, all of the associated tunnel operations were gradually shut down. In 1905 the Westphalian coal works went bankrupt, which led to a change of ownership on September 25 of the same year, with subsequent renaming to the Johannessegen mine. In the same year, the Johannessegen union bought the rights to the Sprockhövel colliery, which had already been closed, from the Königsborn corporation . In the Wodan field , the Hope Valley mine was located at a depth of 147 meters. The deepest sole was at a depth of 145 meters. At this point in time the mine had three tunnels, three days overcutting, two weather shafts and a briquette factory . This year, the two tonnes-long yard in Hope Valley was abandoned. In 1906 the remaining mines were acquired from the Johann Friedrich and Heinrich Wilhelm collieries . In addition, the Geviertfelder random luck and Hohenstein were acquired from the coal mine Carl Friedrich's Erbstollen and the pit field from the coal mine Peaceful Neighbors . At this point in time, the authorized persons comprised 13 square and five length fields. In 1907 the Längenfeld Valeria was acquired by the Blankenburg colliery. That same year, the square box Random luck was aligned . On June 14th of the same year, the mines Peaceful Neighbor , Wodan, Random Gluck, Righteousness, Jalousie , Hoffnungsthal , Gustav Carl , Hohenstein, Diedrich Carl, Siegeskranz, Hülsiepenbank , Johannessegen and Rabe consolidated into the Johannessegen mine. A shaft from the Peaceful Neighbors colliery was taken over and mining stopped. In 1908 the Längenfelder Gutehoffnung und Pius was acquired. In addition, the Kuxen majority of Geviertfeldes Rebecca was acquired in the same year and the daytime facilities of the peaceful neighbor colliery were demolished. At this point in time the mine had four tunnels, four day overcuts and four shafts. Three of the shafts took up tons. In 1909 the mine fields Zukunft I, Zukunft II, Rockershausen, Königsburg, Waterloo and son Emil & daughter Auguste were acquired.
The years until shutdown
In 1910 the mine had five day shafts. In addition, there were still five days left. The mine had two briquette factories with a total of nine briquette presses. In the briquette factories, up to 80,000 tons of the lean coal extracted from the mine could be pressed into egg-shaped briquettes. The Johannessegen union also ran a brick factory . In 1913 there were ten day- long shafts , a seiger shaft and two shafts with a length of tonnes . On September 12, 1915, the closed Sprockhövel colliery was taken over. In 1920, the Hope Valley 2 mine shaft, the Rabe shaft with a length of tonnes, five tunnels and eight daytime ponds were available. In 1919 the Johannessegen union was acquired by the Lorraine Society. On March 24, 1921, the Johannessegen colliery consolidated with further mines to form the Alte Haase colliery . In 1925 the Johannessegen colliery was closed due to the poor economic situation.
Promotion and workforce
The first production figures come from the year 1874, in that year almost 1,300 tons of hard coal were produced. The first workforce figures come from 1878, in that year six miners were employed at the colliery, who produced 1063 tons of hard coal. In 1881 five miners mined 902 tons of hard coal. In 1883 four miners were employed at the mine, who produced 702 tons of hard coal. In 1885, 838 tons of hard coal were mined by four miners. In 1890, 18 miners extracted 3579 tons of hard coal. In 1892 the production sank to 150 tons of hard coal, this achievement was performed by two miners. In 1894 the production increased to 577 tons, four miners were employed.
In 1905, 461 miners produced 102,013 tons of hard coal. The maximum production was achieved in 1906, with 486 miners, 144,502 tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1910, with 500 employees, 129,911 tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1913, 138,769 tons of hard coal were extracted with the same workforce. In 1915 the production sank to 100,681 tons, this production was provided by 383 miners. The last known workforce and production figures of the mine are from 1920, with 532 employees 109,536 tons of hard coal were extracted.
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 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 , pp. 382, 110
- ↑ a b c d e Kurt Pfläging: The cradle of Ruhr coal mining. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, 4th edition, Essen 1987, ISBN 3-7739-0490-8 , pp. 192-193
- ↑ a b c d 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 c d e Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957, pp. 399, 401, 468-469
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Johannessegen colliery , accessed on July 5, 2012.
- Early mining in the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 , accessed on July 5, 2012.
- Early mining in the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 , accessed on July 5, 2012.