Robert Colliery
| Robert Colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | approx. 3,500 to 77,500 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | approx. 20 to 370 | ||
| Start of operation | 1875 | ||
| End of operation | 1926 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '56.1 " N , 7 ° 6' 56.2" E | ||
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| Location | horst | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Robert colliery was one of the many small tunnels in and around Steele an der Ruhr. It was based in the south-eastern suburb of Horst .
history
19th century
The pit field was awarded in 1853 . In 1864 the tunnel was already 600 meters long. The division of fields in 1869 meant the beginning of the end: in 1872 19 employees produced 3,500 tons per year, but in 1875 operations were stopped.
First World War
It was not until 1915, when the First World War drove up the demand for coal, that Robert experienced a comeback : A year later, 43 employees were producing 13,000 tonnes a year. In 1918 mining began in the neighboring field, Schwarze Junge , which is why the colliery was often but incorrectly called Schwarze Junge in contemporary documents .
The expansion
In 1920, 158 miners were already employed on Robert , the annual production was over 45,000 tons. From then on, the mine management extended its coal mining to the areas of formerly neighboring, but closed mines: In 1920, the reopening of the Wohlverwahrt mine in Essen-Horst began , and in 1921 the Neuruhrort mine in Bochum Oberdahlhausen was taken over. The result of the expansion policy: In 1922, 366 employees produced almost 77,500 tons per year. Meanwhile, Zeche Robert also had its own rail connection to the Bochum – Dahlhausen station. In 1925, at the height of the first real coal sales crisis in the Ruhr, the Robert colliery was shut down. She shared this fate with most of the mines between Steele and Dahlhausen.
Final efforts
In 1926 the Robert colliery came back into operation for a few months. An attempt to restart operation failed in 1934 when a second tunnel was added below the Schloss Horst manor .
literature
- Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 3rd edition, Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1990, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7