Colliery short end

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Colliery short end
General information about the mine
Information about the mining company
Employees Max. 27
Start of operation 1844
End of operation 1861
Successor use United Bommerbänker colliery civil engineering
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
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Location Bommern
local community Witten
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Kurzes Ende colliery in Bommern - Vormholz is a former hard coal mine . Despite its 30-year history, the Kurzes Ende colliery was only in operation for a few years. The mine belonged to the Märkisches Bergamtsiertel and there to the jury area Hardenstein .

Mining history

On March 17th, 1830, a length field was awarded . On October 26, 1835, another length field was awarded. The mine was put into operation in September 1844. In the same year became a tonnlägiger Schacht , who was named Julius, to the seam Fortuna drilled . The shaft reached a shallow depth of 65 laughs and was equipped with a horse peg. In 1855 the mine was by the St. John's Erbstollen solved . From this year on, the mining was carried out together with the United Kassian colliery in the Julius shaft. In 1858 the mine was demonstrably in operation. From the 4th quarter of 1861 the mine was taken out of service. On May 20, 1862 , the Kurzes Ende colliery consolidated with other mines under the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole to form the United Bommerbänker Tiefbau colliery .

Promotion and workforce

On the mine were Esskohlen dismantled. The first known production figures date from 1835, when 437 bushels of hard coal were produced. The first workforce dates from 1845, that year between nine and 27 miners were employed at the mine. 37,735 bushels of hard coal were mined. The last known figures for the mine are from 1847, when 16 to 22 miners produced 72,290 bushels of hard coal.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d 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 .
  2. a b c Ludwig Herrmann Wilhelm Jacobi : The mining, metallurgy and trade of the government district Arnsberg in statistical representation. Published by Julius Bädeker, Iserlohn 1857.