Pörtingsiepen colliery
| Pörtingsiepen colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| other names | Pörtingsiepen colliery, Pörtingssiepen colliery, Poertingssiepen colliery | ||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 400,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | until approx. 1100 | ||
| Start of operation | 1779 | ||
| End of operation | 1972 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '6.8 " N , 7 ° 1' 36.4" E | ||
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| Location | Fish sheets | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Pörtingsiepen was a coal - mine in Essen district Fischlaken , south of the present Baldeneysees located in Hespertal.
The name goes back to Siepen for a small valley and the Poerting farm, first mentioned in 832. Over time the different spellings Pörtingsiepen , Pörtingssiepen or Poertingssiepen arose ; but it is always the same mine.
history
1777 to 1905
After tunnels and pines had been built in the minefield area as early as the 16th century , an authorized person was granted in 1777, which was given the name of Kohlenbank in Pörtingssiepen from 1779 . A tunnel mouth hole from this time can still be seen today.
Around 1800 nine employees (1 shift supervisor , 8 miners ) mined around 2,000 tons of coal per year.
From 1813 the Gerhardstollen was excavated as a new conveyor tunnel . From 1817 onwards, a few small Göpel shafts were sunk from the surface to the bottom of the tunnel . From 1835 to 1836 a blind shaft was sunk in the Gerhardstollen, which was supposed to open up the lower lying coal reserves.
After additional acquisition of mining claim owned the mine was in 1859 as a mining law union under the name United Pörtingssiepen consolidated .
In 1861 the blind shaft in the Gerhardstollen was broken up after days. Shaft 1 of the Ver colliery was built. Pörtingssiepen . This shaft was in the immediate vicinity of the Ruhr .
From 1872 to 1875, shaft 2 was sunk at the intersection of Pörtingssiepen / Maasstrasse. This was modernized and received a Malakow tower as a conveyor system. The narrow-gauge Hesper Valley Railway (horse-drawn towing railway) between Shaft 2 and the Kupferdreh station, which has been in operation since 1857, was converted to standard gauge from 1876 for the use of steam locomotives.
From 1880, the extraction was only brought to light via shaft 2, as shaft 1, located on the Ruhr, had to be taken out of service due to the decline in shipping traffic in the Ruhr. The mine field was expanded further south by acquiring disused facilities such as the United Stöckgesbank & Dodelle colliery . In 1888 a briquette factory was put into operation.
1905 to 1962
A connection field north of the Ruhr called Gottfried Wilhelm was further developed from 1905. From 1906 the independent Gottfried Wilhelm colliery was established here . In 1906 the Ver. Pörtingssiepen with the Rheinische Anthracitkohlenwerke AG and the Zeche Hercules in the newly founded Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG.
In the course of this joint management, the Ver. Pörtingssiepen with neighboring mines Carl Funke and Gottfried Wilhelm durchschlägig . The production amounted to 200,000 tons of coal annually with 750 employees.
After the First World War and the crisis caused by inflation and the occupation of the Ruhr , extensive expansion of the Ver. Pörtingssiepen decided. The Stöckgesbank field was developed. In 1927 a new headframe was erected above shaft 2 . The shaft was lined to be stable. In 1931 the briquette factory had to be shut down due to the global economic crisis .
From 1937 to 1938, shaft 3 was sunk in the southern field on Ludscheidstrasse. This shaft functioned as a cableway, weather and mountain shaft. The annual production of anthracite coal rose to 400,000 tons with 1,100 employees.
After the Second World War , the shafts were sunk again. In addition, preparations were made to combine coal production in the Ruhr Valley area. In 1955 the Ver. Pörtingssiepen with the entire Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG in the possession of the Mannesmann AG . From 1959 to 1960 the headframe shaft 2 was built over with a tower headframe.
1962 to 1973
In 1962 the extraction was completely shifted to the new sixth level (−700 m above sea level ). At the same time, the mining work to create a composite mine with the Carl Funke colliery was carried out. For this purpose, in addition to creating the necessary underground routes and blind shafts, more than 18 kilometers of track had to be converted to the common gauge of 600 mm. In 1963, 518,199 tons of anthracite were mined by 1,261 employees. On October 1, 1967, the Carl Funke colliery formed the Pörtingssiepen / Carl Funke composite mine . The dismantling took place as close as possible to the shaft in the Bochum Mulde .
Decommissioning and current state
The funding on Pörtingssiepen II was stopped on December 30, 1972, the remaining funding was raised and processed on Carl Funke . On April 30, 1973, the Pörtingssiepen / Carl Funke composite mine was completely shut down.
The daytime facilities remained orphaned until the early 1980s. In 1975 and 1977 they formed the location for two episodes of the “Tatort” series called Fortuna III and Spätlese . The demolition began in 1981. On June 24, 1982, the shaft tower built in 1958 was blown up over shaft 2.
The area of the Pörtingssiepen colliery is now completely green and part of a circular hiking trail. Only the baffle of the tower extraction still reminds of the mining past.
Due to the damming of Lake Baldeney , the site of the former Pörtingsiepen mine has been located 50 meters away on the shores of the lake since 1933. Originally the distance to the bank was about 500 meters. The United Pörtingsiepen ( location ) is now about 500 meters southwest of the lake and from Haus Scheppen, formerly at a distance of about 700 meters from the shore.
On August 18, 2008, the former Pörtingsiepen VI steam locomotive , which had stood on a short piece of track in the entrance area of the RBH in Gladbeck for almost 30 years , was lifted from it with two truck-mounted cranes and placed on a semi-trailer. The locomotive will probably be overhauled again at some point so that it can be used on the Hespertalbahn .
literature
- Joachim Leitsch: The Hesper Valley Railway. A colliery railway through the ages. In: The cut. 1-2 (1995), pp. 44-54.
- Kurt Pfläging: The cradle of Ruhr coal mining. Essen 1986, ISBN 3-7739-0490-8 .
- Joachim Leitsch, Dirk Hagedorn: Coal, lime and ores. The history of the Hesper Valley Railway. 2nd, expanded edition. Association for the maintenance of the Hesper Valley Railway, Essen 2008.
- Kurt Pfläging: Chronicle of the Seezechen Ver. Poertingsiepen. Pfläging, Bochum 1973.
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 623 .
