Morgenstern colliery (Witten)

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Morgenstern colliery
General information about the mine
other names Morgenstern colliery court Herbede
Morgenstern colliery near Berghausen
Mining technology Underground mining
Funding / year up to 76,876 pr t
Information about the mining company
Employees up to 73
Start of operation 1767
End of operation 1851
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '14.4 "  N , 7 ° 18' 26.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '14.4 "  N , 7 ° 18' 26.6"  E
Morgenstern colliery (regional association Ruhr)
Morgenstern colliery
Location of the Morgenstern colliery
Location Vormholz -Hardenstein
local community Witten
District ( NUTS3 ) Ennepe-Ruhr district
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Morgenstern colliery in the Vormholz- Hardenstein district of Witten is a former hard coal mine . The mine was also known under the names Zeche Morgenstern Court Herbede and Zeche Morgenstern near Berghausen . The mine was located east of the Hardenstein castle ruins .

Mining history

Morning star

On November 20, 1767, the decision was made by Johann Henrich Oberste Frielinghaus. The mine was then put into operation. The trades Supreme Frielinghaus let edit the seam Kreftenscheer together with other trades. The shift supervisor Rosendahl from the neighboring Weselbank mine was hired to supervise the mine operation . The mine was in operation from 1769. A tunnel was excavated on the slope to the Muttental . The tunnel mouth hole was located near the walls of Haus Hardenstein. In 1774 the pit field was measured . In 1786 the mine field was the St. John Erbstollen solved . For this purpose, a deep straightening section was driven in an easterly direction. Through this connection to the Erbstollen it was now possible to mined coal directly to the Ruhr to promote . In order to improve the production in the tunnel, the mining authority suggested installing a hunt rod in the tunnel. Since the installation of this conveyor system was too expensive for the trades, they asked the mining authority to continue to transport the coal using carts . In 1797 a coal defeat was created on the Ruhr. In 1800 the mine field was divided into Morgenstern and Morgenstern to the west . In 1802 the unification tunnel was driven with other mines . The pit field was measured in 1804 . In 1815 the mine continued to operate under the name United Morgenstern Civil Engineering .

United Morgenstern civil engineering

The United Morgenstern civil engineering colliery was first named in this way in the documents of the mining authority in 1815, before the mine was in operation as the Morgenstern colliery. The mine was also known as the United Morgenstern colliery . From May 1st, 1837, the mine was back in operation. This year the transition to civil engineering was started via a die . The following year the mine was in operation, but there was no coal production. In 1839 civil engineering began. The coal mined was conveyed through the Orion shaft of the community mine St. Johannes Erbstollen & Frielinghaus Tiefbau . For the joint use of the shaft, the United Morgenstern Tiefbau colliery had to pay one ninth of the funding income to the St. Johannes Erbstollen & Frielinghaus Tiefbau colliery. In 1839 the mine field of the United Morgenstern & Kurzeggerbänker Tiefbau colliery and the remaining fields of the Morgenstern collieries to the west and Morgenstern to the east were taken over. The Berechtsamen for the two remaining fields applied to the reduction above the lug soles . In 1841 all but ten pools were mined below the bottom of the tunnel. The pit area was solved by the St. Johannes Erbstollen. In 1849 the coal supplies in the mine field were exhausted. In the same year, production through the Orion shaft was stopped. In 1851 the United Morgenstern Tiefbau colliery was closed.

Promotion and workforce

The first production figures come from the year 1837, 1083 bushels of hard coal were produced . In 1840 more than 5000 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1842, the production was 76,876 Prussian tons of hard coal. The first known workforce at the mine dates back to 1845, at that time between 12 and 57 miners were employed at the mine, who produced 91,497 bushels of hard coal. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine come from 1847, in this year 12 to 73 miners were employed at the mine, who produced 126,863 bushels of hard coal.

United Morgenstern & kurzeggerbänker civil engineering

The United Morgenstern & kurzeggerbänker Tiefbau colliery was created through the merger of the previously independent Morgenstern collieries to the west and Morgenstern colliery to the east with the Kurz Eggersbank colliery . The two mines Morgenstern to the west and Morgenstern to the east were merged below the bottom of the tunnel. The purpose of uniting these three mines was the joint transition to civil engineering below the bottom of the tunnel. This year, the United Morgenstern & kurzeggerbänker civil engineering mine produced 21,296 Prussian tonnes of hard coal. The promotion of the mined coal was carried out by the Association studs. In the years 1839 and 1840, the United Morgenstern & kurzeggerbänker Tiefbau colliery was taken over by the Vereinigte Morgenstern Tiefbau colliery.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
  3. ↑ a b c Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr (= The blue books ). 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition in 1990. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .

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