Louischen colliery
| Louischen colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | Max. 6500 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | until approx. 12 | ||
| Start of operation | 1854 | ||
| End of operation | 1881 | ||
| Successor use | United Louisenglück colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '14.8 " N , 7 ° 19' 36.9" E | ||
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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 Louischen colliery in Bommern is a former coal mine . The colliery emerged from the consolidation of two independent mines. The mine belonged to the Märkisches Bergamtsiertel and there to the jury area Hardenstein .
Mining history
On January 5th, 1852, the two mines Altena and Gutekauf consolidated into the Louischen colliery. The consolidation took place partially above the St-Johannes Erbstollen sole . In October of the year 1854 the Justizrat Brinkmann, Ludwig Küper and Friedrich Oberste Frielinghaus were elected to the mine director of the mine. That same year, the east was Muttenbaches with the dismantling began. The Mausegatt and Kreftenscheer seams were mined . The coal mined was conveyed through the Louischen tunnel . The mouth of this tunnel was to the west of today's Ruhr Valley Bridge. In 1855, a joint tunnel was created together with the Flößgraben colliery . The tunnel began in the area of the Witten ferry, today the Ruhr Bridge is located there. Initially, the tunnel had to be excavated in the clay . Only then did you come across solid rock and, as you continued driving, you came across the Finefrau seam. By the end of the same year, 52 Lachter tunnels had been excavated. That same year, parts of the degraded coal in the shaft Frederick the bill Supreme Frielinghaus promoted .
The Gutekauf seam was reached in May 1856, and the tunnel was now 145 meters long. In 1857 the tunnel reached a length of 377 meters. The tunnel was driven further west in the Gutekauf seam. To improve the ventilation conditions in the tunnel, a light hole was sunk that same year . In 1858 the mine was demonstrably in operation. The mined coal was conveyed over rails by means of trolleys and transported over days to the Louisenglücker Bridge. There they were loaded onto ships on the Ruhr . The pit water was also discharged via the tunnel . From February 1, 1871, the mine was put in time limits . On September 20, 1879, the mine was put back into operation. In 1881 the mine had almost run out of coal. During the year there was a water ingress. On December 1, 1881, the Louischen colliery was finally closed. The remaining coals were later mined by the United Louisenglück colliery .
Promotion and workforce
The first known production and workforce figures for the mine come from the year 1855, when twelve miners extracted 661 Prussian tons of hard coal . For the year 1860 a production of 6000 tons of hard coal was given. The maximum extraction was achieved in 1862, 6500 tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1865 the production sank to 1145 tons of hard coal. In 1867 eight miners produced 4460 tons of hard coal. In 1870 the production sank to 1961 tons of hard coal, this production was provided by four miners. In 1879 there was another drop in production, with six miners producing 1311 tons of hard coal. In 1880 twelve miners mined 1829 tons of hard coal. The last mining and workforce figures for the mine are from 1881, with four miners producing 1861 tonnes of hard coal.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 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 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b c d e f Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Louischen (accessed on September 17, 2012)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (accessed on September 17, 2012)
- Early mining in the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed on September 17, 2012)