Katharina colliery
| Katharina colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| End of operation | 1972 | ||
| Successor use | Commercial space | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '27 " N , 7 ° 3' 28" E | ||
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| Location | Kray | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Zeche Katharina was a coal - mine in Essen-Kray .
history
1899-1945
From 1899 to 1901, brought union Hercules near the Zehnthof on the road from Frillendorf after Kray a new production well down . This shaft 3 of the bill Hercules later, after the wife of the pit Board Carl Funke also Schacht Catherine called. The shaft received a Tomson trestle as an independent conveyor system ; a briquette factory for the production of lean coal briquettes was also built.
The new shaft system developed promisingly. As early as 1904, the new mine in conjunction with the old Hercules mine was producing 450,000 tons of lean coal annually. From 1905 to 1907 a weather and flushing shaft was sunk one kilometer east of the Katharina shaft.
The 1906 u. a. Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG , founded by the Hercules union, decided to spin off shafts 3 and 4 from the Hercules colliery and continue as an independent Katharina colliery . The numbering of the shafts, however, was continued for Hercules and Katharina together. After the First World War , the tense sales market, especially for lean coal and its secondary products, led to necessary rationalization measures by Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG.
The development of the lean coal reserves in the area between the city center of Essen and the Ruhr was to be taken over by the Zeche Katharina in the long term. The main shaft 3, located in the open air, provided the necessary terrain reserves for this. From 1923 to 1925, in addition to shaft 3, shaft 6 was sunk as a second production shaft. This received a two-story German strut frame . In return, the Hercules 1/5 production site was abandoned in 1925 and completely abandoned. The remaining coal supplies in the Hercules field were initially kept in reserve.
In 1930 Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG temporarily merged with Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG , from which Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG was spun off again in 1933 as a new subsidiary. From 1936 the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG was subject to a consortium that was close to the Flick Group . This now planned the large-scale development of the mine fields of the neighboring mines, which had been closed in earlier years, from the Katharina 3/6 mine. However, the mine fields were owned by various mining companies, which repeatedly delayed the exercise of the mining rights and thus the investments.
1945–1972
After the Second World War , the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG was separated from the Flick Group. Due to the well developing sales market for lean coal, the expansion plans of the Katharina colliery were resumed.
1951 was mining claim ownership of the mining company Adler mbH acquired. The mine fields belonging to this company, the Johann Deimelsberg colliery and the Centrum 4/6 colliery, were added to the Katharina colliery. Both mines were shut down in 1929; the Centrum 4/6 shafts in Leithe were, however, partially open. From 1952 to 1954 these shafts were cleared again . Shaft 4 received a new headframe, the framework of shaft 6 was merely repaired. From then on, these shafts functioned as the outdoor facility of the Katharina colliery.
From 1953 to 1955, the Katharina 3/6 mine was expanded into a central conveyor system. The processing was completely renewed. Schacht 3 was lower geteuft and provided with a closed conveying concrete tower. In honor of the longstanding General Director of Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG, this shaft was renamed the Ernst Tengelmann shaft . In 1955 the Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG was taken over by Mannesmann AG . This made it possible to combine the neighboring Mannesmann Queen Elisabeth colliery with the Katharina colliery in the long term .
In 1956, Katharina 3/6 was connected to the Wilhelm / Emil mine of the Queen Elisabeth mine. Schacht Ernst Tengelmann took over the mining , Schacht Wilhelm and Emil remained in operation as weather and cableway systems . From 1966 the remaining pits Friedrich Joachim and Hubert 1/2 of the Queen Elisabeth colliery were taken out of production. The further reduction of coal supplies was carried out by the bill Catherine. The Friedrich Joachim 1 shaft remained open as a cableway and weather shaft. The mining assets of Mannesmann AG passed into the ownership of the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG in 1968 . This took over the Keche Katharina in the Bergbau AG Essen. The annual production in 1970 was 850,000 tons of fat, edible and lean coal with 2,800 employees.
Shutdown
After the overall adjustment plan of the Ruhr coal mining, the intention was quickly to stop the lean and anthracite coal mining in the area of Essen and the Ruhr valley due to unprofitability. In 1972 the Katharina colliery and all ancillary facilities were shut down. In the following years the systems were demolished and the shafts filled . Schacht Katharina 6 remained as grounds for up to 1974 drainage open.
Current condition
Industrial areas were built both above shaft 3/6 ( location ) and shaft 4 of the Katharina colliery. They refer to the old usage with the names Zeche Katharina and Am Luftschacht . Old colliery buildings ( location , location ) can no longer be recognized as such.
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
- Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. , 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9