Zeche Löwe

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Zeche Löwe
General information about the mine
other names Loewe
colliery Löwenbanck colliery
Funding / year Max. approx. 5980 pr t
Information about the mining company
Employees Max. 14th
Start of operation 1721
End of operation 1838
Successor use United lion colliery
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 22 '6.5 "  N , 7 ° 20' 20.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '6.5 "  N , 7 ° 20' 20.9"  E
Zeche Löwe (Regional Association Ruhr)
Zeche Löwe
Location Zeche Löwe
Location Silschede
local community Weather
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Zeche Löwe in Wetter-Silschede is a former hard coal mine . The mine was also known under the names Zeche Loewe and Zeche Löwenbanck . According to the Niemeyer map, the mine was located between the street Am Hülsey, the Schlebuscher street and the street Im Blumenthal.

Mining history

The general award ceremony for the mine took place on February 14, 1721 . The mine was then in operation. There is evidence that the mine was in operation in 1737 and 1739. In 1739 the mine was measured . According to the records of the Wetteramt, Herman Diederich worked as a shift foreman on the mine in 1755 . The trades were Ostermann Wate and the Kemna community of heirs. In 1761 three length fields were measured. There is evidence that the mine was also in operation in 1769 and 1784, and in 1787 the mine was listed on the Niemeyer's map. Even before 1796 the mine was shut down in 1821 was mining area by a tunnel cross passages from the field Trappe solved . In 1828 the Löwe colliery was merged with the Freier Vogel colliery . The reason for this association to form the Löwe & Freier Vogel colliery was experimental work. The field was first opened by a tunnel from the St. Peter colliery . The combined mine went into operation in May of the same year. The coal mined by the Löwe & Freier Vogel colliery was extracted from the Friedrich Wilhelm mine at the Trappe colliery. In the following year, the association was dissolved again and the Löwe mine was shut down.

In January 1830, the mine was put back into operation with a new daily operation. 1833 bay Wilhelm was to Trapper Erbstollensohle sunk . The Wilhelm shaft was created as a broken shaft . In 1835 the Wilhelm shaft went into operation as a production shaft; there were also other tunnel shafts, which were used as light holes for the Schlebuscher Erbstollen . On March 12 of that year, a disputed subfield was merged with the rest of the Löwe mine to form the United Lion mine. In November of the same year the remaining field was shut down.

Promotion and workforce

The first workforce dates from 1755, when 14 miners were employed in the mine. The first production figures of the mine come from the year 1830, at that time 2097 bushels of hard coal were produced . In 1833 10,041 bushels of hard coal were mined, in 1835 23,415 bushels. In 1837 production fell to 18,736 bushels of hard coal.

United lion

The United Löwe colliery in Wetter-Silschede was created on March 12, 1838 through the retroactive merging of a disputed part of the field with the remaining field of the Löwe colliery. The pit field was disputed between the two mines Free Vogel and Löwe. In the same year, the Wilhelm shaft of the Löwe mine was taken over. In 1839 there was no longer any orientation activity at the mine . In order to improve the ventilation , the locations No. 6 and No. 7 West were occupied alternately. Two tugs and four reel workers were used to transport the mined coal . In 1841, the well was Wilhelm in promotion . From May 1847, the mine was closed, on July 3, 1849 three length fields were awarded, in 1854 the mine was probably still in operation, from 1855 the mine was out of operation again.

Promotion and workforce

The first known production and workforce figures for the mine come from the year 1838, when 29 miners extracted 1199 tons of hard coal. Melirte and greetings coal were promoted. In 1840 5,978 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. In 1845 the production went back to 3784½ tons of coal from Prussia, this production was provided by eight to nine miners. The last production figures of the mine come from the year 1847, 1008¼ tons of Prussian hard coal were produced.

Current condition

One of the shaft buildings and an old vaulted cellar have been preserved from the Löwe colliery ; the building was taken out of service after the colliery was closed. The horse-drawn vehicles were loaded from this shaft building. Horses and wagons were housed in the "Lasterkotten" (pack animal yard) that burned down on December 31, 2017. You can still see the passage of the wagons at the outbuilding of the Löwe colliery. In 1978 this half-timbered house was converted into a residential building. The building is located "Am Hülsey" and is still associated with horses today. In addition, the pinge of the Löwe shaft is still there and is located approx. 100 m northeast of the building. Neither the devil year nor the operating time are known of the Löwe shaft. The Pinge is located directly on Schlebuscher Weg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g 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. ^ Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld: Schlebuscher Revier Bergbau in Wetter. Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld-Verlag, Wetter-Wengern 1983, ISBN 3-922014-05-4 .
  3. ↑ a b Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld: On the trail of coal mining. Gustav Adolf Wüstenfeld-Verlag, Wetter-Wengern 1985, ISBN 3-922014-04-6 .
  4. ^ The early mining on the Ruhr: shaft building of the Zeche Löwe (accessed on September 18, 2012)
  5. ↑ The early mining of the Ruhr: Schachtpinge von Löwe (accessed on September 18, 2012)

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