United President colliery
| United President colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 Memorial plaque |
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| Funding / year | up to approx. 860,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | approx. 2500 | ||
| Start of operation | 1844 | ||
| End of operation | 1943 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '11.5 " N , 7 ° 12' 1.3" E | ||
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| Location | Bochum, rope ride | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The United President coal mine was a coal mine in Bochum . It is named after the Lord President Baron Ludwig von Vincke .
history
The first shaft of the Zeche President was sunk in 1840 as a mining shaft . In 1842 this shaft reached the Carboniferous at a depth of 44 meters . 1844 was the promotion included in this bay. In 1852 another shaft was put into operation as a weather shaft .
The Wilhelm shaft was sunk as the second shaft in 1871. The shaft was located 800 meters east of shaft I between Hofsteder Strasse and Dorstener Strasse. In the course of time, shaft 3 was added in 1871 and another shaft in 1923.
The Werkbahn had connections to three railway companies, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME), the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) and the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME).
The miners' strike of 1889 in the Ruhr area began at the Zeche President.
A coking plant was operated on the mine between 1847 and 1930 .
There have been several fatal accidents at the colliery:
- June 2, 1883: Firedamp explosion with 9 deaths
- July 30, 1917: Firedamp explosion killing 24
- August 31, 1936: Firedamp explosion killing 28
The highest funding was achieved at the Zeche President in 1929. 2,504 employees mined 864,706 tons of hard coal .
During the Second World War , underground manufacturing facilities of the Bochum Association were set up in the mine shafts under the code name “Maultier” .
On August 29, 1943, the mine was completely destroyed by an air raid. The facilities were not rebuilt.
Shafts II to IV were filled in 1966 .
literature
- Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area: dates and facts from the beginning to 1997 German Mining Museum; 2nd edition, Bochum 1998, ISBN 978-3-9215-3362-8 .
Web links
- foerdergerueste.de: Zeche President
- Reference to the underground relocation Maultier ( Memento from January 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual proof
- ↑ 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. 670 .