Zeche Monopol Grillo mine

The Zeche Monopol Schachtanlage Grillo was a hard coal mine in Bergkamen in North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1981 it was shut down.

Grillo shaft 1

Grillo shaft with machine house

Grillo 1/2 1978

history

The beginnings of the mine and first expansion

In 1843 work began on the "Friedrich Grillo" shaft of the Akropolis mine in Kamen . Just one year later, the shaft was renamed "Grillo" and taken over as the first shaft of the newly founded Monopol mine. In 1876 the shaft hit the Carboniferous at 287 m and production began as early as 1879. The digging of a second shaft, Grillo 2, began in 1887 directly next to the Grillo 1 shaft. Like the Grillo 1 shaft, it also encountered the Carboniferous at 287 m. In 1892, Grillo 2 shaft reached a depth of 775 m, making it the deepest shaft on the Ruhr at that time. The drilling of a third shaft began in 1906, which was named Kiwitt.

Post-war period and separation

After the Monopol mine was separated in 1945, the Grillo mine belonged to the Grimberg 1/2 mine until it was operationally separated in 1952. In 1956, the digging of a fourth shaft, Grillo 4, also known as the "three finches", began. Operations began in 1959 and served as a weather and material extraction shaft.

reunion

In 1967 the Grillo and Grimberg 1/2 pits were reunified under the name Zeche Grillo / Grimberg 1/2, but only until 1970 because Ruhrkohle AG renamed the mine to "Monopol" after the takeover. In the meantime, the construction site of the Grimberg 1/2 pit went to the Grillo pit, after the Grimberg 1/2 pits closed in 1974. However, this was given up in 1976.

Decommissioning and reuse

In 1981 the Grillo mine was shut down and two years later the Grillo 2 and 3 shafts were already filled. The Grillo 1 and 4 shafts were no longer used for coal extraction, but they served as a weather and material extraction shaft for the new Neu-Monopol mine. After the merger of the composite mine Haus Aden / Monopol, founded in 1993, with the Heinrich Robert mine to form the Ost mine in 1998, the Grillo 4 shaft was closed and filled in the same year. Today companies have settled there. Shaft Grillo 1 was still in operation until the end of the east mine in 2010, but only as an emergency shaft. Today the Technopark Neu-Monopol, established in 1985, is located there.

Received today

• Nothing remains of the shafts Grillo 2 and 3.
• The headframe from 1966 with a hoisting rope is still standing from the Grillo 1 shaft. The machine house of the central machine house and the electrical center were still there until 2016, but then had to be demolished for cost reasons. The small machine house of the Grillo 1 shaft, however, still has a hoisting machine. Today the "Monopol 2000" association also takes care of maintaining the facility. From time to time small cultural events take place there. In addition, the shaft has been a listed building since 2003.
• From the Grillo 4 mine there are still administration buildings and the moorings, which are still used commercially.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . In: The blue books .
2. ↑ Wolfgang Berke, Michael Farrenkopf, Wolfgang Grubert, Stefan Przigoda: Auf Zeche . Plain text.

Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 12.8 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 55.8"  E