Louisenglück colliery (Witten)

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Louisenglück colliery
General information about the mine
Funding / year Max. 26,837 t
Information about the mining company
Employees 56-73
Start of operation 1821
End of operation 1853
Successor use United Louisenglück colliery
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '27.3 "  N , 7 ° 19' 44.9"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '27.3 "  N , 7 ° 19' 44.9"  E
Louisenglück colliery (regional association Ruhr)
Louisenglück colliery
Location Louisenglück colliery
Location Bommern
local community Witten
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Louisenglück colliery is a former hard coal mine in Bommern . The mine is the result of a consolidation of several previously independent mines. The consolidation had become necessary because the coal reserves of the mines involved in the consolidation were running out. There were also problems with drainage .

history

The beginnings

The beginning of 1821, several closed trades together in the Muttental seams Kreftenscheer and Geitling dismantle . Since at that time only the Frielinghaus colliery was operated in the area, this was equivalent to a monopoly, according to the trades. This they also contributed to the mining authorities before and requested that occurring there coals of the two seams mined in the north wing of the Borbecker hollow between the Muttental and the Ruhr Valley win to be able. The trades also intended to dismantle the Mausegatt in the seam . A consolidation contract was signed in the same year. In the period from January 30th to April 14th, 1821, the Braunschweig collieries consolidated Südflügel , Merklingsbank , Steinhardtsbank and Splettenberg to form the Louisenglück colliery. The entire mine field was solved via the St. Johannes Erbstollen . The main trades of the Louisenglück union were Carl Friedrich Gethmann from Blankenstein and Constanz Hueck from Wengern. In February of the following year, test work began and a tunnel was also started to be excavated . The tunnel was in the seam Splett Mountain ascended . The tunnel mouth hole of this tunnel was on the lower mountain slope. The work was supervised by the shift supervisor Kessler.

The other years

On April 17, 1823, three length fields were awarded . These were the Längenfeld Louisenglück No. 1, Louisenglück No. 2 and Louisenglück No. 3. The Längenfeld Louisenglück No. 1 was previously known under the names Steinhardt and Splettenberg, the Längenfeld Louisenglück No. 2 under the name Merklingsbank and the Längenfeld Louisenglück No. 3 was previously the Braunschweig southern wing. A tunnel was then excavated and mining began that same year . The coal mined was good lump coal . The coal was charged with carts from the tunnel encouraged . They were then transported for several days in wheelbarrows over a sliding path to the Ruhr near Hardenstein. In 1825, the eastern Merklingsbänker Stollen was cleared . From the same year, the property at Constanz shaft belonged to the foreman Heinrich Peter Best. His house was also built on the property. In 1828 a cross passage driven south from the winged town of Frielinghaus reached the Splettenberg seam in Muttental. The pit water was diverted to the St. Johannes Erbstollen through this tunnel . In addition, the Constanz shaft was sunk that year and commissioned that same year. The starting point of the shaft , which was also known as the Constanze shaft , was on Muttentalstrasse near the Herberholz house. The shaft had a depth of 20 meters and reached as far as the wing location of the St. Johannes Erbstollen. In the following year, the Muttentalbahn was built together with four other mines . In 1830 Schacht Constanz started mining . Funding was initially carried out with a reel that was operated by reel workers . The coal conveyed through the shaft was transported on the Muttentalbahn for days. In the same year the union took part in the construction of the prayer house in Muttental together with other neighboring mines.

On February 10, 1834, two length field extensions were awarded. In the following year, the area between today's Platanenweg and Frielinghausstraße was leveled. The reason for this measure was the planned construction of the Jupiter underground mine. In the same year, in the area where the Frielinghauser valley joins the Ruhrwiesen, a trial cut in the Geitling seam was started. The purpose of this trial cutting was to explore the deposit , in particular the behavior of the seam. During the work, major problems arose with inflowing pit water, which could only be pumped out with difficulty using the hand pumps available. For this reason, the sinking work was stopped a little later. From 1835 onwards, mining was increasingly shifted to the east. In 1836, the was with the sinking seigeren machine shaft Jupiter started. In the same year a daily route from the Jupiter shaft to the coal defeat on the Ruhr was created. The track had a length of over 200 laughs and was designed for transporting wagons on rails. In 1837, the midsole was set in Jupiter shaft at a depth of 21⅝ laughs . In the same year, a steam engine was set up, which served at the same time for drainage and as a hoisting machine . In 1838 the reserve floor was set in the Jupiter shaft at a depth of 57 pools. This year the shaft reached a total depth of 61½ puddles. This year the mine achieved a yield of 6542 Reichstalers . Since the main works Constanz Hueck was killed in a ferry accident on September 7, 1838, his son Heinrich Hueck took over the management of the mine. Heinrich Hueck expanded the mine together with Wilhelm Gethmann and other trades. In 1840 the sinking of the Elisabeth shaft began. The shaft was sunk in Frielinghauser Siepen and was planned as an artificial shaft . The starting point of this shaft was 61 Lachter south of the Jupiter shaft. The shaft slice of this shaft was 20.5 by 9.25 feet . In addition, the Jupiter shaft in the Braunschweig seam was sunk by several tons. Constanz shaft was now only used for ventilation and the cable car.

The last few years

In 1841, the sinking of the Elisabeth shaft was postponed due to strong water inflows , and the work continued the following year. In 1845 the sinking work in the Elisabeth shaft was stopped at a depth of 61½ puddles. At a depth of 57 Lachtern, the first level, still called the reserve level in the Jupiter shaft, was set. Since the steam engine and pumps supplied by the Friedrich Harkort machine shop in the same year were not operational due to a defect, production in the Jupiter shaft had to be stopped. For this reason, Heinrich Hueck had the remaining coal mined above the bottom of the tunnel and conveyed it through the Constanze shaft. The union ran into financial problems due to the lack of funding. In addition, the mining authority rejected a loan that Hueck applied for from the miners' fund. Hueck also refused to pay for the steam engine that was not operational . In 1847 the Constanz and Jupiter pits were mined. The steam engine and pumps were ready for operation again. In the same year a settlement was made with the Friedrich Harkort machine shop. Due to the comparison, Harkort waived the repair costs of the machine. The Elisabeth shaft was sunk deeper in the same year and in the same year the mining of the actual civil engineering began in the Elisabeth shaft . In 1848, the second level was set at a depth of 77 puddles. In the years that followed, there were often problems with drainage at the mine. In February 1852 there was major damage to the dewatering machine . This led to the mine workings being flooded and swamped from April of the same year . The swamp work lasted until October of the same year, after the swamp work began again with the extraction . In 1853 the Louisenglück colliery consolidated with other mines to form the United Louisenglück colliery .

Promotion and workforce

The first known production figures for the mine date back to 1824, when 50,000 bushels of hard coal were produced . In 1828 around 6,500 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1830 the production was 5039 tons of hard coal. In 1835 4096 tons of hard coal were mined. In the following year it was only mined for six months, this year the production sank to 2200 tons of hard coal. In 1838, 48,014 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. In 1840 41,814 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. The only known number of employees dates back to 1845, when 56 to 73 miners were producing 10,357 tonnes of hard coal. In 1848 181,500 bushels of hard coal were mined. The last production figures of the mine come from the year 1850, in which 26,837 tons of hard coal were extracted.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q 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 d e Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .
  5. ^ Günter Streich, Corneel Voigt: Zechen Dominanten im Revier. 2nd expanded and revised edition, Verlag Beleke KG, Nobel-Verlag GmbH, Essen 1999, ISBN 3-922785-58-1 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Best's house was the actual Steigerhaus. Something stood in the back of the property and is no longer preserved today. (Source: Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. )