Colliery Prince Kater

Colliery Prince Kater
	General information about the mine
other names	Zeche Prinz Cater ; Zeche Prinz Katter ; Zeche Printz Kater
	Information about the mining company
Employees	up to 8
Start of operation	1737
End of operation	1790
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 27 '3.4 " N , 7 ° 14' 18.6" E Coordinates: 51 ° 27 '3.4 " N , 7 ° 14' 18.6" E
	Location Zeche Prinz Kater
Location	Brenschede
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Zeche Prinz Kater was a coal mine in Bochum- Brenschede. The mine was also known as Zeche Prinz Cater , Zeche Prinz Katter and Zeche Printz Kater . It was at the lowest point of today's Stiepeler Strasse.

history

The beginnings

In the years 1733 to 1734 in Krucks Siepen, in the area of today's street Am Schußholz at the corner of Stiepeler Straße, the tunnel mouth hole was created. Then was cleats east ascended . In the course of the tunnel excavation, three seams were opened up with the tunnel . Two of the seams were worth building , one seam was not worth building. On June 3, 1735, the general award took place . The award was made for the later area of the fields Vereinigte Neue Mißgunst No. I and Vereinigte Neue Mißgunst No. II. The Prince Kater colliery was in operation from 1737. The mine was then shut down again, as the note “ is silent ” was entered in the documents of the mining authority . From 1754 the mine was back in operation for several years. In 1754 eight miners were employed at the mine. According to the Niemeyer map , the dismantling took place in the Dickebäcker Bank seam. The mine continued to operate in 1754 and 1755. Everhard Floor worked as a shift supervisor at the mine. Schrepping et Consorten were registered as trades .

Further expansion and operation

In 1760 a second tunnel was set up near the first tunnel. This tunnel was set up a little deeper, east of Stiepeler Straße, in the so-called Siepen. The tunnel was located 150 meters west of the " old tunnel ". With this new tunnel, a total of seven additional seams were opened up during the excavation. These were the seams Eberhardine, Prinz Cater No. 1 to No. 5 and an unnamed seam. In 1762 and 1763 the mine was in production . On October 21, 1765, a prospect was placed on the Prince Cater No. 2 seam. Johann Heinrich Espey appeared as the mother . In 1768 the mine was out of order. The field was surveyed on October 23 of the same year . Then the mining rights for the seam Prince Cater No. 2 were awarded . The field was 615 meters long. This year there were two production shafts . In 1769 the mine was back in operation. In 1775 the mine was only mentioned in the documents of the mining authority, but no information about an operation was given. In 1783, the Längenfeld Eberhardine was opened up by the Prinz-Kater-Stolln. This year the mine was measured for the second time.

The last few years until the consolidation

On June 17 of 1784 the mine was by the head of the Mark Berg Revieres, the Baron von Stein , navigate . The mine was in operation at the time of the visit. At this point in time, it had its last shaft in operation in the mine field and now reached the mine sheath . Vom Stein provided information about the condition and performance of the mine in his protocol. He noted in particular, the maturity that this mine would approach the end and it could so long no longer be used after decommissioning until the pit box by the Glücksburger tunnels solved would. From 1785 and in the years that followed, the mine was only mined slightly . In 1790 the mine ceased operations and the tunnel fell into disrepair over the following years. On April 16, 1812 , the Prinz Kater colliery consolidated with the Neue Mißgunst & Unvermuthetglück and Patriarch collieries to form the Vereinigte Neue Mißgunst colliery .

Individual evidence

↑ ^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 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. 1st edition, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .

Web links

Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Prinz Kater (accessed on January 11, 2013)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (accessed on January 11, 2013)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed on January 11, 2013)

Remarks

↑ The Eberhardine seam was not considered worth building by the trades and was therefore not muted. Later, the trades of the Eberhardine colliery put an end to this seam. (Source: Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. )

[Quelle_1-1] ↑ ^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 .

[Quelle_2-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. 1st edition, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-529-2 .

[Anm._1-3] The Eberhardine seam was not considered worth building by the trades and was therefore not muted. Later, the trades of the Eberhardine colliery put an end to this seam. (Source: Kurt Pfläging: Stein's journey through coal mining on the Ruhr. )