Robert Müser colliery

Robert Müser colliery
	General information about the mine
	; Robert Müser colliery 1961
	Information about the mining company
Start of operation	1929
End of operation	1968
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '12 " N , 7 ° 17' 59" E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '12 " N , 7 ° 17' 59" E
	Location Robert Müser colliery
Location	Werne
local community	Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	Bochum
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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Schachtfrüst Schacht Arnold in its changed environment

The pit water drains into the Werner ponds

The colliery Robert Müser was a coal - mine in Bochum district Werne .

The colliery was created in the 1920s as a composite mine from several older, until then independently operated mines of Harpener Bergbau AG :

Mining history

The colliery got its name on July 1, 1929 when the colliery Heinrich-Gustav (including Vollmond and Amalia) was renamed after Robert Müser, the long-standing chairman of the board of directors and supervisory board . At the same time, the Caroline and Prince of Prussia plants were taken over at the same time.

Southwest of the Arnold shaft sunk in 1859 ( depth : 760 m) as the central production shaft and the Jacob shaft sunk in 1856, an above-ground facility was built with a colliery station, coal washing , coking plant with ammonia production and a 126,000 m³ gasometer . The production of coke started in 1861, from 1863 the Harpener Bergbau AG built the first own miners' houses in Werne. 1926–1928 a mine-owned power plant with 20 MW was built. In 1938 the output was 1.5 million tons of coal; in 1966, approx. 4000 employees mined 1.37 million tons of coal and produced 874,000 tons of coke.

In 1955 the Neu-Iserlohn colliery and the Siebenplaneten colliery were taken over . From 1965 to 1968, tests for hydromechanical extraction were carried out at the mine .

The colliery was closed on March 31, 1968, among other things at the request of the city of Bochum, which wanted to set up a safety pillar to protect the Opel factory II / III from damage in the mountains . All shafts (except for the Arnold shaft and the Gustav weather shaft) were subsequently filled . The gasometer remained in existence for a long time, as there were long-term supply contracts with the Witten glassworks. In May 1980 it was canceled.

Robert Müser colliery today

The Arnold and Gustav shafts are used by Deutsche Steinkohle AG for dewatering . Here, pit water is lifted from disused mines in the east of Bochum so that the mine workings of the distant mining operations, in which coal was still extracted until 2018, do not fill up in an uncontrolled manner.

The drained water is a few hundred meters north of the shaft into the Werner ponds of the Oelbach . The gray-white deposits visible in the picture are formed from the minerals dissolved in the pit water .

literature

Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9
H. Heinrichsbauer: Harpener Bergbau-Aktien-Gesellschaft 1856–1936. 80 years of coal mining in the Ruhr. Glückauf Publishing House, Essen 1936
Jürgen Dodt, Alois Mayr (ed.): Bochum in the air. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1976, ISBN 3-506-71228-4

Individual evidence

↑ Horst Detering: From evening light to dwarf mother . 400 years of mining in Heisingen, 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-739-8 , pp. 161–162.
↑ Bochum in the air, p. 82

Web links

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

[Quelle_2-1] Horst Detering: From evening light to dwarf mother . 400 years of mining in Heisingen, 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-739-8 , pp. 161–162.

[2] Bochum in the air, p. 82