Prosper colliery

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Prosper colliery
General information about the mine
Germany coal mine Prosper-Haniel.jpg

Prosper II mine with the coking plant , on the right in the background the Beckstrasse dump with the tetrahedron , in front of it the MHKW Karnap, in August 2007
Information about the mining company
Operating company Ruhrkohle AG
Start of operation 1861
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 31 '8.5 "  N , 6 ° 57' 59"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '8.5 "  N , 6 ° 57' 59"  E
Prosper colliery (regional association Ruhr)
Prosper colliery
Location Prosper colliery
Location Bottrop
local community Bottrop
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bottrop
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

Industrial monument on Prosper II: Malakow tower with headframe, in June 2006
active slot 9 on Prosper IV

The Prosper was part of a coal - mine in Bottrop .

history

1850 to 1900

In 1856, members of the well-known entrepreneurial families Waldthausen, Hammacher, Haniel, Huyssen, Morian and Grillo founded the Arenbergsche Bergbau und Hüttengesellschaft, which, following a change in the statutes, has been operating under the name Arenbergsche Aktiengesellschaft für Bergbau und Hüttenbetrieb since May 1856. The initially acquired assumptions Gottfried, Constantinople, Maximilian and Prosper I – IV were in the Bottrop area. The Duke Prosper Ludwig von Arenberg was the owner of the Bergregal . This explains the name of the company. In the “Maximilian” section of the field in Ebel , the sinking of the first shaft began in 1856 . After some difficult sinking work (water inflows through the nearby Emscher ), the shaft went into operation in 1861. He was equipped with a driving skill for the team experience .

In 1863, the Arenbergsche AG for mining and smelting operations merged the minefield property under the name "Prosper" . Patron saint was the aforementioned Duke Prosper-Ludwig von Arenberg. The mine field comprised extensive field holdings in Bottrop, Ebel, Batenbrock, Fuhlenbrock, Welheim and Boy.

In 1866 a coking plant was put into operation on the “Prosper” 1 mine .

1871 in Batenbrock, 2.5 of the bay 2 km northeast of shaft 1, drilled . This shaft was equipped with an unusually large Malakow tower and went into operation in 1875 as a separate conveyor system.

Both plants developed very promisingly economically, so that the coal crisis that began in the 1880s could be overcome without any problems.

Shaft 1 received a new conveyor system . At the same time another coking plant was put into operation next to shaft 2 .

From 1893 both shafts were expanded to double shafts . Shaft 4 on Plant 1 went into operation as early as 1894. Shaft 3 (next to shaft 2) was immediately expanded into a conveyor system. On the originally planned Malakowturm one was immediately headframe attached. This shaft went into operation in 1895.

1900 to 1945

In order to combine the production, the new production shaft 5 was first sunk from 1902 to 1904 on mine 1/4. This received a characteristic single-storey double strut structure. At the same time, shaft 2 received a drawn-in steel frame placed on the Malakwo tower.

Furthermore, the northern field area was opened up by a separate double shaft system. Shafts 6 and 7 were put into operation in 1908 and 1911 and equipped with their own coking plant.

As a result of the consistent management of the mines as independent conveying systems, the naming of the mine systems according to continuous digits began to establish itself in official writing. The 1/4/5 shaft was designated Prosper I , shaft 2/3 as Prosper II , and Prosper 6/7 as Prosper III . This has been maintained to this day. (In contrast to this, other large shaft systems often named their individual operations after the shaft with the lowest number, see e.g. Zeche Graf Bismarck ).

In 1917, the “Prosper” 8 shaft on Prosper II was sunk as a new production shaft with double production, which went into operation in 1921.

In 1922, the Arenbergsche AG for mining and smelting operations merged with the Rheinische Stahlwerke AG. From now on, the last-mentioned company had an Arenberg department.

In the context of the global economic crisis , Rheinische Stahlwerke AG implemented rationalization measures. The individual coking plants were shut down in 1928. In its place, a new central coking plant with 320 coke ovens was built on a site adjoining the 2/3/8 mine to the east. With an annual production of 1.6 million tons of coke, this coking plant was the largest coking plant in the Ruhr area.

In 1928 coal production was stopped on Prosper I and merged with Prosper II . In the future, these two plants were run as one plant management team. Shaft 8 became the main conveyor shaft, the drawn-in scaffolding above shaft 2 was replaced by a new one.

In 1930 the disused connection facility Zeche Arenberg continuation was connected to Prosper III and continued as an outdoor facility. Shaft 1 of this system became a weather shaft, shaft 2 was used for rope travel. The headframe above shaft “Arenberg-Continuation” 1 was replaced by a reel device.

During the Second World War , day-to-day operations at the Prosper II colliery were hit so badly by bombs on February 3, 1945 that extraction was no longer possible. After the surrender, the British occupying power initially made difficulties for the management to prepare the production again. The repairs - in the case of a considerable lack of spare parts - and clean-up work under the direction of the operator, Mr. Karl Düppe, meant that on October 1, 1945, the passenger ropeway could be resumed at the Prosper II colliery, and coal mining was not resumed until April 1, 1947.

1945 to 1974

After the Second World War, the assets of Rheinische Stahlwerke AG were transferred to a successor company. The production of all Prosper mines in 1953 amounted to 3.1 million tons annually. 1.6 million tons of coke were produced annually. The total number of employees in Bottrop was almost 12,000. In 1954, the cableway shaft 6 was provided with a new headframe and continued to be operated as the sole shaft for Prosper III .

In the area of ​​the municipality of Kirchhellen , field ownership was exchanged with the Gutehoffnungshütte .

In these subsequent northern fields, the sinking of shaft 9 (in future the Prosper IV facility ) as a new cable car and weather shaft began in 1958 . This started operations in 1962.

In the course of the coal crisis , the Prosper II conveyor systems were modernized again. Shaft 8 received a new, fully automatic container conveyor system and was equipped with an 85 meter high concrete conveyor tower. The drawn-in headframe of shaft 2 was raised to two floors. The “Prosper” I / II and III / IV factory divisions were combined to form the Prosper mine .

In 1969, the "Prosper" colliery with the entire mining assets of Arenberg Bergbau-GmbH became the property of the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG . This continued the consolidation and rationalization measures according to the new corporate strategy.

In 1971 the “Prosper” mine produced 3.8 million tons of coal annually and 1.5 million tons of coke. However, the number of employees was only 5,900.

In 1974, the " Jacobi " and " Franz Haniel " pits were connected from the disbanded composite mine of the same name.

The new composite mine was operated as the Prosper-Haniel mine until December 2018 .

Current condition

Shaft I was closed in 1959 and the headframe was dropped on March 17, 1976 . In its place is now the Prosper I industrial park. Opposite the colliery was the fire station of the professional mines and professional fire brigade Prosper. The building still stands today and is used commercially.

Shaft II is still the location of the central processing and central coking plant. The shafts are backfilled , but the Prosper mining mountain opens up here . The combination of Malakow tower / headframe of the Prosper 2 shaft has been preserved as an industrial monument . The Bottrop Tetrahedron and the Bottrop Alpine Center are located on the Prosper II heaps designed as a terrace .

Shaft III was dropped in the 1980s and completely cleared. There is residential development here.

The Prosper IV and Prosper V pits were among the last active hard coal pits in Germany.

See also

  • Hanns Ketteler , director of Prosper II (1972–1974) and Prosper-Haniel (1974–1992)

literature

  • Christian Böse, Michael Farrenkopf, Andrea Weindl: Coal - Coke - Oil. The history of the Prosper-Haniel mine . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2018, ISBN 3-402-13392-X .
  • Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. In: The Blue Books . 6th edition, expanded to include a digression according to p. 216 and updated in energy policy parts, the 5th edition, completely revised. u. extended. Langewiesche publishing house , Königstein im Taunus 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .
  • 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 .

Movie

Web links

Commons : Zeche Prosper  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helga Pillar: He shaped the mining of this city . derwesten.de , June 6, 2009