Neuwesel colliery
| Neuwesel colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1842 | ||
| End of operation | 1889 | ||
| Successor use | Delivery to the König Wilhelm colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '17.1 " N , 6 ° 56' 13.2" E | ||
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| Location | Borbeck | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Neuwesel was a coal - mine in Essen .
history
Around 1840, in the area of the Borbeck community, several exploratory drillings by various unions in search of hard coal deposits worth building were found. A consortium Wesel 1,841 merchants founded the union New Wesel , the near Borbeck Castle on the road from Borbeck to Bedingrade with the sinking began a Schurfschachtes.
In 1842 this shaft went into operation with a Göpel mine . After the use of operating systems supported by steam engines , funding could be increased. In 1858 the shaft building burned down . The promotion had to be stopped, the union filed for bankruptcy .
In 1861 several surrounding mine fields were consolidated with the Neu Wesel mine field . A new union in New Wesel began to restore the shaft damaged by the fire . During this repair work led to a 1862 flooding, the colliery flood and the shaft crime was. The union was unable to raise the funds it needed and also had to file for bankruptcy.
The Schalker Gruben- und Hüttenverein AG , founded by Friedrich Grillo in 1872, took over the mining property in Neu Wesel in the same year and rebuilt the shaft. In 1873, however, the shaft and the shaft building collapsed due to strength problems in the floor area. Then was Schacht New Wesel newly drilled , stable lined and put into operation 1875th An underground connection was established with the neighboring Wolfsbank colliery , which had a powerful extraction shaft.
From 1879 the Neu-Wesel shaft was operated exclusively as an outdoor facility for the Wolfsbank colliery .
1889 was Berechtsame New Wesel together with the bill Wolf bank to the Essen mine Club King William AG issued.
Current condition
As the outer shaft of the Wolfsbank colliery, the Neu-Wesel shaft remained in operation until the colliery was closed in 1966. The shaft was then backfilled and the shaft building was demolished. On the site at today's Neuweselstrasse there are now residential and commercial buildings.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943