Prince Regent colliery
| Prince Regent colliery | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1873 | ||
| End of operation | 1960 | ||
| Successor use | Event site | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '2.3 " N , 7 ° 13' 1.9" E | ||
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| Location | Wiemelhausen | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Zeche Prinz Regent was a hard coal mine in Bochum .
Early mining
The colliery goes back to the three tunnels, Alter Mann , Bonifacius and Backwinkler Erbstollen .
- The Backwinkler Erbstollen colliery was built between 1782 and 1797. In earlier times coal had already been mined with an upper gallery .
- The old man colliery was muted in 1766 .
- The Bonifacius colliery was awarded in 1772 .
- 1862 was not yet mined coal seam under the name Prince Regent awarded . The mine field was named after the Prince Regent of Prussia .
Civil engineering
In 1869 the four unions decided to unite in order to jointly operate the civil engineering . The consolidated mine was named Prince Regent .
In 1870, the sinking of the Prince Regent I shaft , which began mining in 1873, began. The connecting line to the Dahlhausen - Laer line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) was put into operation as early as 1871 . On October 10, 1883, the connecting line to the Bochum-Weitmar station of the BME was put into operation.
At that time there were only fields near the mine . To accommodate the miners, ten four-family houses were completed in 1874 .
From 1890 the mine belonged to the joint stock company Zeche Dannenbaum , from 1899 to the joint stock company for the iron and coal industry Differdingen-Dannenbaum , from 1901 to the German-Luxembourgish mining and smelting company , in 1926 it came to the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG , in 1934 to the newly founded Gelsenkirchener Bergwerk -AG and after the Second World War to Bochumer Bergbau AG .
On February 27, 1960, the mine was shut down due to the coal crisis .
present
Today, the facility is used in many ways, including the Bochum colliery , which has been converted into a concert events club, with a disco, as well as the Prinzregenttheater and rehearsal stages of the Bochum playhouse . It was also used for rehearsals by the Bochum Symphony Orchestra until the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr opened .
Behind the parking lot is a section of the Hasenwinkeler Kohlenweg , a former railroad line for goods traffic. Parts of the colliery's former coal-fired power station still exist today as the Bochum power station - converted to a gas-fired power station . The telescopic gas cylinder built in 1915 at the Prinz Regent colliery was transferred to the Meiderich ironworks in Duisburg as early as 1920 . It still stands there today and is used as a plunge pool.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition. Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor to Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 2006, ISBN 3-7845-6994-3
- Claus Fr. Dürscheidt, Bernd Kowalzik (Hrsg.): Zeche Bochum - legend and myth. 25 years 1981 - 2006. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-624-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 627 .
- ↑ Tim Neshitov: The American Dream. Thanks to Steven Sloane, clammy Bochum in the clammy Ruhr area now has a place for its symphonies . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 18, 2016, p. 3.
- ↑ Günter Gleising (Ed.): "Opel is coming ... 25 years of Opel AG in Bochum", self-published by DKP District Board Bochum, Bochum 1987
- ↑ Rheinische Industriekultur e. V .: Walter Buschmann: AG Hüttenbetriebe Meiderich