Rheinelbe colliery
| Rheinelbe colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1861 | ||
| End of operation | 1878 | ||
| Successor use | Merged to form the United Rheinelbe & Alma colliery | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 29 '46 " N , 7 ° 6' 25" E | ||
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| Location | Ückendorf | ||
| local community | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Rheinelbe was a coal - mine in Ückendorf .
history
The first dowsing in the district Ückendorf place in the year 1848th
In 1854, the company Société des mines et fonderies du Rhin Détillieux et. Cie. the minefield property and merged it in the Rheinelbe union . The name was chosen from the mining fields that were formerly in the hands of Hamburg and Rhenish investors. In 1855, the sinking of the Meyer shaft and a weather shaft directly next to it began. Extensive water inflows hindered the sinking work considerably; they had to be temporarily suspended for months.
In 1861 the Meyer mine was able to start mining . The adjacent weather shaft was temporarily deferred , and then went into operation in 1863. The extensive drilling work had weakened the company's funding base considerably. In the founding crisis after 1873, the young colliery was constantly threatened in its existence. Shaft 2 had to be deferred again in 1876.
On the initiative of Friedrich Grillo and Emil Kirdorf , the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG was founded in 1877 in order to bring together the pits in the Emschermulde under German management.
The Rheinelbe trade union , together with the neighboring Alma trade union, was the first mine to be acquired in 1878. The two mines were combined and henceforth operated as the United Rheinelbe & Alma mine .
Current condition
The Rhine Elbe shafts remained in operation until the 1960s. The pit areas were gradually built over. The area Rheinelbe 1/2/6 on Rheinelbestraße can still be recognized from some buildings.
What is left of the colliery is the machine hall used as a hotel and the former workshops in which there are studios and company headquarters. The former shaft openings are marked with signs. The factory premises are now covered by the sculpture forest designed by Hermann Prigann . Further south is the Rheinelbe slag heap , which with its art installation Himmelstreppe is a landmark for the Ruhr area. Further north is the Gelsenkirchen Science Park , which was initially named after the Rheinelbe colliery.
photos
Information board for the reconstruction of the site
The machine hall is now a hotel and conference center
Data from slot 1
The workshops are now used as studios.
literature
- Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations, with the participation of the Ruhr Mining Societies . Glückauf, Essen 1957.
- 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 3-7845-6994-3 .
Web links
- Wasteland recycling on the site of the former Rheinelbe colliery , Gelsenkirchen environmental portal
- Gelsenkirchen stories about the Rhein-Elbe colliery
- Location of the shafts on Zechensuche.de
- http://ruhrzechenaus.de/gelsenkirchen/ge-alma-rheinelbe.html