Rheinbaben colliery
| Rheinbaben colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Funding / year | 900,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1901 | ||
| End of operation | 1967 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 32 '51 " N , 6 ° 57' 16.3" E | ||
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| Location | Bottrop and Gladbeck | ||
| local community | Bottrop | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bottrop | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Rheinbaben was a coal - mine in Bottrop .
history
In 1894, several individual trades consolidated their field holdings under the city limits between Bottrop and Gladbeck and founded the United Gladbeck union .
This began in Rentfort in 1895 with the sinking of the Thyssen double- shaft system and in 1897 in Bottrop-Eigen with the Professor's double- shaft system . Since the union had combined the two fields under the name Zeche Vereinigte Gladbeck , the professor shafts were also numbered shaft 3/4 . This was maintained throughout the life of the colliery.
In 1901, the Professor 3/4 pit went into production. In the same year the Prussian state founded the mining company Recklinghausen , which in addition to a few other mine fields on the northern edge of the Ruhr area also the Ver. Gladbeck took over. The Professor 3/4 shaft was renamed into Rheinbabenschächte after the former Prussian Finance Minister Georg Freiherr von Rheinbaben . The system was equipped with two identical German strut frames and expanded over a large area. From 1905 the mining company Recklinghausen was managed in personal union with the Hibernia AG . This led the Rheinbaben colliery together with the Möller colliery (formerly Thyssen 1/2 ) as mining inspection 2 . In 1912 a coking plant was put into operation on Rheinbaben .
In 1927, the mining company Recklinghausen was completely taken over by Hibernia AG. Mining inspection 2 was separated in the Gladbeck mine with the independent plant divisions Möller and Rheinbaben . The coking plants of both shafts were gradually shut down. From 1936 both pits were continued as individual mines. The Rheinbaben 3 shaft was provided with a new, full-walled headframe and expanded into a shaft for large-scale production. In addition, the processing plants were extensively expanded. The annual production of the Rheinbaben colliery amounted to 900,000 tons of coal.
From 1940 the coal extracted on Möller was promoted to Rheinbaben 3 in order to be able to use the new processing plants. However, the Möller colliery was continued as an independent mining company . Due to severe bomb damage at the Rheinbaben colliery, the Möller colliery had to take over production again temporarily in 1945. From 1947, the production was operated again as in the pre-war status.
Shutdown
As part of the coal crisis , Hibernia AG finally merged the two pits into the Möller / Rheinbaben composite mine . After a deposit assessment and the submission of a social plan, the closure of the composite mine was applied for in 1967 and carried out on March 31 of that year.
The protests against the closure were unsuccessful.
The Rheinbaben 3/4 shafts were connected to the Mathias Stinnes colliery as weather shafts. They stayed there until the mine was closed.
Current condition
The entire spacious colliery area is now home to an industrial area. Of the former colliery buildings, an administration building, a machine house and a gatehouse are still in use. There are no traces of these at the locations of the former shafts.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943
