Klosterbusch colliery

Klosterbusch colliery
	General information about the mine
	The machine house of the Klosterbusch colliery
Funding / year	approx. 400,000 t
Funding / total	12,987,000 t
	Information about the mining company
Employees	about 1000
Start of operation	1918
End of operation	1961
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '17 " N , 7 ° 16' 16" E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '17 " N , 7 ° 16' 16" E
	Location Klosterbusch colliery
Location	Querenburg
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The bill Klosterbusch was a coal - mine in Bochum district Querenburg . It was located in the lower Lottental , south of today's Ruhr University Bochum . Today the quarry can still be seen from afar.

Hard coal mining

The mining law union of the “Vereinigte Klosterbusch” colliery goes back to the Eisenstein colliery Vereinigte Klosterbusch in Essen-Werden . This union acquired the coal unions Sonnenschein, Johann-Diedrich and Buchwald in (Bochum-) Querenburg in 1918.

In Querenburg two were first in 1918 tonnlägige wells put into operation in 1924 was followed by a seigerer (vertical) production well, 1937, a ventilation shaft , and in 1955 another ventilation shaft at the hair line. The extraction reached a depth of 368 meters. The mine was closed on July 31, 1961, and today one of the two broadband seismic measuring stations of the Ruhr University, which is also part of the German Regional Seismological Network (GRSN), is located in one of the tonnage shafts.

In 1926 an annual production of 350,000 tons of edible coal was achieved, in 1937 454,000 tons of coal and after the Second World War until the closure in 1961, over 300,000 tons were produced annually, which were mainly used for domestic heating.

Annual funding and workforce

Course of hard coal production and development of the workforce

year	Amount of coal extracted in tons	Number of miners
1920	050,000	0270
1922	123,000	0753
1924	129,000	0739
1927	333,000	1159
1935	428,800	1035
1937	454.100	1198
1945	170,400	0882
1950	329,250	1288
1951	324,700	1387

The total production from 1918 to 1961 was 12,987,000 tons of hard coal.

Day systems

View of the Kalwes from Hevener Straße - The red arrows show the foundations of the cable car; In the background the wall of the Klosterbusch quarry

The coal extracted was transported via a cable car built and put into operation in 1920 to a loading station on the Ruhr Valley Railway near the Holland colliery in Herbede . On the left bank of the Ruhr there were also coal washing , processing and the administration building of the colliery. The foundations of the girders are still partially visible in the fields.

The daytime facilities in the Lottental are still partially preserved. At times there was a residential community for student squatters. After the building was occupied for the second time from 1991 to 1994 and in October 1995, it was again empty for a long time. Today there is a faculty library and vehicles from the technical relief organization.

Since March 2014, the colliery and the local Ruhr-Universität mining trail have also been listed in the Route of Industrial Culture , themed route Bochum .

Quarry

Exposure to the former Klosterbusch colliery, the red line shows the course of the “Stockumer Saddle”, a fold of the mountains

The quarry of the Klosterbusch colliery on the “Kalwes” mountain is the largest geological outcrop in Bochum. Due to its geological importance, the wall has been placed under protection as a natural monument ND 2.5 .

The area in front of the quarry is used as a test area and for composting cuttings from the Botanical Garden of the Ruhr University Bochum. There is no public access for reasons of road safety, but guided tours are offered on certain occasions.

literature

Hans-Jürgen Lewer, Klaus Eichholz, Jörgen Beckmann: The Klosterbusch union in Querenburg and Herbede. Review of the mine director Ewald Sonnenschein from 1918–1927. In: Sources on Hevener and Herbeder history. Issue 5, 2016.
Karl-Heinz Bader, Karl Röttger: 250 years of coal mining in the Mark region ISBN 3-88339-590-0 .
Wilhelm u. Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1981, ISBN 3-7845-6990-0 .
Environment Agency of the City of Bochum (ed.): Tag des Geotop 2006. (leaflet).

Web links

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

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~29~12936