Lucia colliery

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Lucia colliery
General information about the mine
other names Lucia and Nebenbanck colliery
Mining technology Underground mining
Funding / year Max. 9932 t
Information about the mining company
Employees Max. 80
Start of operation 1750
End of operation 1851
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '8.6 "  N , 7 ° 10' 52.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '8.6 "  N , 7 ° 10' 52.2"  E
Colliery Lucia (Regional Association Ruhr)
Lucia colliery
Location Lucia colliery
Location Linden trees
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Lucia colliery is a former hard coal mine in the Linden district of Bochum . The mine was also known as the Zeche Lucia et Nebenbanck and has a mining history of over a hundred years.

history

The beginnings

In 1750 the prospect's license was issued to explore the field. In the same year, the cross-cutting Lucia-Oberstollen was created from Deimkes-Siepen. This tunnel was intended to open up the seam . The driveway was carried out in a northerly direction between Am Schamberge and Im Ostholz . The tunnel had to be driven completely through rock . In 1751 the upper gallery was already 56 meters long. The seam was approached and leveled . At this point, a suspicion was lodged. On March 4, 1752, a length field was awarded . The mining rights were granted to the trades Johann Dietrich Altenscheid, Dietrich Heinrich Hestermann, Carl Johann Holtkamp, ​​Heinrich Jürgen Commander and Röttger Schawacht. Following the ceremony was the degradation started and a shaft down to the seam sunk . The mine was in operation from 1754 to 1764. In 1769 the side bank was also dismantled. However, the mine had sales problems and so the stockpiles of hard coal accumulated over time . Due to poor ventilation and the resulting lack of weather, the mine was taken out of service on June 16, 1784. On June 16 of the same year, the head of the Brandenburg mining authority district, Freiherr vom Stein, wanted to drive into the mine . The inspection could not take place due to the ventilation problems. Vom Stein criticized the poor weather condition of the mine in his protocol. In his opinion, the problems with the ventilation should be resolved at the latest when the mine had reduced its stockpiles.

The other years

In 1796, a fault zone was approached, and there were again poor weather conditions, so that mining was stopped. In 1797, five seams were opened up with the upper adit. That same year was the mining authority a request is made to a mining permit. Around the year 1800, a court order was issued that awarded the exposed seams to the St. Mathias Erbstollen. As a result of this court order, the mine was placed within time limits . From 1807 the mine was put back into operation. In 1807 the miners of the St. Mathias Erbstollen mine in the Oberstollen . The work in the upper gallery was finished in 1830, the gallery then fell into disrepair. The cross-cutting Lucia deep tunnel was set up in the same year. The starting point of the tunnel was in the lower Deimkes-Siepen 293 meters southwest of the upper tunnel. The tunnel was set nine meters lower than the upper tunnel. In the following year, a sliding path was created through the Rauendahler Siepen. This sliding path led from the mine to the Rauendahl defeat on the Ruhr . Promotion began in the same year. In 1838 that was mine field of mine Lucia through a tunnel cross-passage of the bill Hasenwinkel-Himmelscroner Erbstolln solved . This was made possible because the Erbstollen had driven under the seams of coal mine Lucia. The tunnel crosscut led to the Constanz August shaft and thus enabled a deeper clearance of the mine field. In the same year, a tonnage shaft was sunk . The shaft was sunk in the President seam down to the hereditary tunnel and thus enabled further coal reserves to be explored. The mining shaft, which was called Göpelschacht, started mining in 1839 . This year, the Hasenwinkel-Himmelscroner Erbstolln colliery was used up to the Ruhr. In 1841 a partial merger with the Zeche Kirschbaum to Kirschbaum & Lucia was carried out. In 1851 the Lucia colliery was closed.

Promotion and workforce

The first known workforce dates from 1754, when eight miners were employed at the colliery. The first known production figures date back to 1774, at that time were 25 per day Ringel coal promoted. In 1836 12,908 ¼ Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. In 1840 the production was around 8,000 tons of hard coal. In 1842, 80 miners extracted 7447 tons of hard coal. The maximum funding was achieved in 1847. This year, 9932 tons of hard coal were mined. The last known production figures of the mine are from 1850, in that year 308 tons of hard coal were produced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning until 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 f Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. 1st edition. Geiger Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .

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